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‘These dolls offer a window into the experience of women during a turbulent period of foreign occupation.’ Annika Aitken
Cornelia Bonnell was feeling ambivalent as she disembarked her passenger ship in the port city of Shanghai on Christmas morning, 1899. An aspiring Protestant missionary from upstate New York, she had long felt God summoning her to China, a country she had never been to and knew little about.