“I Must Do What I Can”: Susan Rowena Bird and the Oberlin Band of Missionaries in Shanxi, China (1898-1901)

From 1890 until her death in the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, Susan Rowena Bird worked as part of a group of missionaries in Shanxi known as the Oberlin Band. Retroactively labeled imperialist, Susan Rowena Bird participated in the larger forces of U.S. imperialism or the compulsory gender norms that coded the work of “civilizing.”
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