The Missionary Enterprise in China and America /

The Missionary Enterprise in China and America / / ed. by John K. Fairbank.

For more than a century missionaries were the main contact points between the Chinese and American peoples. Often frustrated in saving Chinese souls, they nevertheless founded hospitals and colleges, and meanwhile on the American scene they helped form the image of China. This volume offers views of...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
MitwirkendeR:
Bennett, Adrian A.,
Cohen, Paul A.,
Creighton Miller, Stuart,
Fairbank, John K.,
Field, James A.,
Hutchison, William R.,
Liu, Kwang-Ching,
Phillips, Clifton J.,
Rabe, Valentin H.,
Schlesinger, Arthur,
Searle Bates, M.,
Stone Garrett, Shirley,
Varg, Paul A.,
West, Philip,
TeilnehmendeR:
Fairbank, John K.
HerausgeberIn:
Fairbank, John K.,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]
©1974
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Reprint 2013
Language:English
Series:Harvard Studies in American-East Asian Relations ; 6
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Physical Description:1 online resource (442 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Introduction: The Many Faces of Protestant Missions in China and the United States
  • PART I Protestant Missions in American Expansion
  • Near East Notes and Far East Queries
  • Evangelical Logistics: Mission Support and Resources to 1920
  • The Student Volunteer Movement and Its Role in China Missions, 1886-1920
  • Modernism and Missions: The Liberal Search for an Exportable Christianity, 1875—1935
  • PART II Christianity and the Transformation of China
  • The Theology of American Missionaries in China, 1900— 1950
  • Christianity in the Chinese Idiom: Young J. Allen and the Early Chiao-hui hsin-pao, 1868—1870
  • Littoral and Hinterland in Nineteenth Century China: The "Christian" Reformers
  • Christianity and Nationalism: The Career of Wu Lei-ch’uan at Yenching University
  • PART III China Mission Images and American Policies
  • Ends and Means: Missionary Justification of Force in Nineteenth Century China
  • Why They Stayed: American Church Politics and Chinese Nationalism in the Twenties
  • The Missionary Response to the Nationalist Revolution
  • The Missionary Enterprise and Theories of Imperialism
  • Notes. Glossary. Index
  • NOTES
  • GLOSSARY
  • Index
  • HARVARD STUDIES IN AMERICAN-EAST ASIAN RELATIONS
  • CONTRIBUTORS

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