Imperialism, Race, and Rescue: Transformations in the Woman's Foreign Mission Movement after World War I.

The article follows the expedition of a team of American and Chinese women who ventured from Soochow Women's Medical College in China to provide aid to Czechoslovakian refugees in Vladivostok, Siberia in 1918. Topics discussed include the complexity of power relations in the missionary enterprise, the changes in the American women's foreign mission movement, and the de facto racial segregation that was not evident to the American women medical missionaries. Also mentioned are the American Red Cross in Siberia, ideologies of race and imperialism in the American foreign missionary movement, and images of non-Western women in need of rescue.