One of China's Scholars
Author: first_name: Mrs. Howard
last_name: Taylor
Language: English
Year: 1908

The first of two volumes telling the life story of Pastor Hsi, a Confucian scholar from Shanxi province in Northern China who became a Christian in the 1870s.  Pastor Hsi grew up in a China now long gone, when the scholarly class to which he belonged held a leading place in society.  He lived through tumultuous times of change in China, when the opium that enriched the pockets of Western countries brought widespread addiction and poverty while a multi-year drought brought famine, decimating the