American Missionaries In China

Includes the following papers: The Missionary Contribution to China; Science and Salvation in China: The Life and Work of W.A.P. Martin (1827-1916); Protestant Missions in China, 1877-1890: The Institutionalization of Good Works; The Missionary and Chinese Nationalism; The Missionary and China's Rural Problems ; and also an appendix on articles on missionary subjects published in Papers on China.

This book provides a description of an American missionary community in China during the years 1895-1905.

Describes an American missionary community in China during the years 1895-1905.

Like many of her fellow missionaries to China, Pearl Buck found that she was not immune to the influence of her adopted home. Some missionaries even found themselves "convert[ed] ... by the Far East." In this book Lian Xi tells the story of Buck and two other American missionaries to China in the early twentieth century who gradually came to question, and eventually reject, the evangelical basis of Protestant missions as they developed an appreciation for Chinese religions and culture. Lian Xi uses these stories as windows to understanding the development of a broad theological and cultural liberalism within American Protestant missions, which he examines in the second half of the book.

The book is about several semester essays he consolidated in pursuit of a MA degree at The American University some 45 years ago. He found them on a shelf in his library. And at that time he was in the Pentagon as aide to the Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff. However that does not justify saying that the book's background was the Bay of Pigs!

For more than a century missionaries were the main contact points between the Chinese and American peoples. Here, fourteen contributors studying both sides of the missionary effort, in China and in America, present case studies that suggest conclusions and themes for research.