China chronicles from a lost time
Subtitle: the Min River journals
By: Donald MacInnis
Publisher: Eastbridge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Norwalk
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9781891936890
Subjects: Missionaries; Missions; American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions; Protestant churches; Biography; History
Description: "Chronicles from a lost time relates the work of the China missionaries sent by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions to the Shaowu prefecture of north Fujian, a remote mountainous region 200 miles long and 100 miles wide, with a population at the time of over a million. Presenting the journals and letters of individual missionaries--written during the final decades of the Manchu Empire (the Qing Dynasty) leading up to the War of Resistance (1937-1945)--this is a true documentary history of the life and work of the Protestant missionaries who opened their first station in the upper Min River region in 1874."--From back cover
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-288) and index.
Table of contents: title: A calendar of crises: the Min River missionaries; title: Anti-foreignism: from the first Opium War to the rise of nationalism; title: Missionary motivation: why they went to China; title: Mothers and children: joys and hazards of family life in China; title: The Wilkinsons: an Anglican family in wartime Fujian; title: Gunboats and treaty ports: "don't worry, Uncle Sam wil look out for us"; title: Joseph Walker: fifty years on the Shauwu station; title: Wesley Bissonnette: country missionary, poet, and mystic; title: Girls and women: liberation from illiteracy, superstition, and bound feet; title: Law cases: xtraterritoriality, treaty protection, and persecution; title: Opium-the "angel of death": the first Opium War and its aftermath; title: Encounters with bandits and pirates; title: Superstition and "a fearful dread of idols"; title: Catholic missions in the Shaowu-Kienning district.