The Conversion of Missionaries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Conversion of Missionaries write by Xi Lian. This book was released on 1997. The Conversion of Missionaries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
American Missionaries in China
American Missionaries in China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Missionaries in China write by Kwang-Ching Liu. This book was released on 1966-07-01. American Missionaries in China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Memorials of Protestant Missionaries to the Chinese
Memorials of Protestant Missionaries to the Chinese - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Memorials of Protestant Missionaries to the Chinese write by Alexander Wylie. This book was released on 1867. Memorials of Protestant Missionaries to the Chinese available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Fundamentalist Movement Among Protestant Missionaries in China, 1920-1937
The Fundamentalist Movement Among Protestant Missionaries in China, 1920-1937 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Fundamentalist Movement Among Protestant Missionaries in China, 1920-1937 write by Kevin Xiyi Yao. This book was released on 2003. The Fundamentalist Movement Among Protestant Missionaries in China, 1920-1937 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Through a series of case studies of major fundamentalist missionary institutions and campaigns in China from 1930 to 1937, this work traces and clarifies the historical process of the movement and its controversy with modernism, the nature of character of the movement, its theological cores, its impact upon missionary thinking and strategies, and its influences on emerging evangelicals within Chinese churches.
Crusaders Against Opium
Crusaders Against Opium - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Crusaders Against Opium write by Kathleen L. Lodwick. This book was released on 2014-07-11. Crusaders Against Opium available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Opium addiction in China during the closing decades of the Ch'ing dynasty afflicted all segments of society. From government officials to farmers, the population fell prey to the effects of the drug. Some provinces reported addiction rates as high as eighty percent. With the birth of Chinese nationalism, reformers -- missionaries who had witnessed the effects of opium on Chinese society, students who had studied abroad and returned to their native land with broader perspectives, families who had lost all through the addiction of a loved one, doctors who had firsthand knowledge that opium use led only to death -- cried out against the drug. Even though many were convinced that opium use had sapped the strength of China, ending the use of the drug was a complicated problem. Opium trade financed the colonial government of India, and imports amounted to many tons annually. Domestic poppies were also cultivated as source of income. Kathleen Lodwick examines the intersecting efforts of Protestant missionaries, particularly medical doctors, who had long denounced opium use, the British Royal Commission on Opium, which was decidedly pro-opium, the U.S. Philippine Commission, which denounced not only the trade but the Chinese people, and the British officials who finally undertook the task of ending the importation of opium to China. China kept few records on the amount of drug use or its effects. Missionary medical doctors conducted the first scientific survey on the effects of the drug, and their findings provided clear evidence of its perniciousness. Such evidence could not be ignored, whatever the fortunes involved, and missionaries conducted a campaign of education and awareness in China and abroad. As a result of their efforts, China and Britain entered into a treaty that called for all opium trade to cease by 1917, and both governments as well as the missionaries become immediately active toward that end. The suppression campaign was among the most successful of the late Ch'ing reforms. Lodwick tells a fascinating story of imperial exploitation and of a strain of honest crusaders who sought to right some of the wrongs their own nation was perpetrating. This book represents a strong argument against legalization of addictive drugs, a topic being discussed today in the United States as a solution to the societal problems our own drug use has caused.
