Luella Miner, missionary to China from 1887 to 1935, was the founder and president of the first college for women in China. Her many writings, including letters, journals, articles, and books, are a window into China’s changing political scene in the early twentieth century and into the life of an educational missionary in north China who helped launch basic education for girls and higher education for women. While one should be cautious not to overstate Luella Miner’s legacy, it is hard to deny the influence she had in China as a teacher, author, activist, president, and scholar.
1900 “A Prisoner in Peking: The Diary of an American Woman during the Siege.” Written in three installments in Outlook 66 (1900): no. 11 (November 10): 641–49; no. 12 (November 17): 697–705; no. 13 (November 24): 734–41.
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1903China’s Book of Martyrs: A Record of Heroic Martyrdoms and Marvelous Deliverances of Chinese Christians during the Summer of 1900. New York: Pilgrim Press.
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1903 (ed.) Two Heroes of Cathay: An Autobiography and a Sketch. New York: Fleming H. Revell.
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1911Textbook of Geology (in Chinese). Peking: Peking Press.
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1933Religious Psychology of the Adolescent (in Chinese). First published in Shanghai: Guang xue hui, Minguo 22 (1933), and later in Beijing: Beijing zhong xian tuo fang ke ji fa zhan you xian gong si (2012).
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Thirteen articles that Luella Miner published in the Missionary Herald:]
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1912 “A Changed China.” 108 (May): 233–38.
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1912 “For the Young Men of Peking.” 108 (August): 368–70.
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1913 “Russia Cement in China.” 109 (February): 55.
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1913 “Young Men’s Christian Association Convention at Peking.” 109 (March): 122–23.
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1913 “China’s First National Congress.” 109 (July): 324–25.
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1915 “President Yuan as High Priest.” 111 (March): 116–17.
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1915 “A Metropolitan Church in China.” 111 (May): 227–29.
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1919 “The American Board in Shantung.” 115 (December): 480–84.
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1926 “In the Home of Marshal Feng.” 122 (January): 18–20.
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1928 “From the Mount of Olives: Messages from the Jerusalem Conference, Miss Luella Miner of China.” 124 (June): 217.
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1929 “Three Doors of Opportunity for Women in China.” 125 (January): 14–15.
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1929 “Women’s Past and Future at Cheeloo.” 125 (February): 70–72.
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1931 “Letters from Overseas: Dr Luella Miner Writes.” 127 (April): 169.
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Works about Luella Miner
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ChandlerRobert E. “Miner, Sarah, Luella.” In Notable American Women, 1607–1950: A Biographical Dictionary. Vol. 1. Ed. JamesEdward T.JamesJanet WilsonBoyerPaul S., 548–50. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, Belknap Press, 1971.
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ChandlerRobert E. “Woman, Pioneer, Saint: Luella Miner.” Unpublished manuscript, April 1942, American Board for Foreign Missions Archives, 1810–1961 (ABC 71.1), Houghton Library, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA.
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CushingDorothy P. “Luella Miner and China!” Missionary Herald124 (March 1928): 101–2.
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PorterMary. Luella Miner: A Sketch. Chicago: Woman’s Board of Missions of the Interior, 1916.
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SowardsJeffrey Reid. “Doing Good Works: Luella Miner and Mission Education in China.” M.A. thesis, Western Washington Univ., 1994.
