The Missionary Enterprise in China and America

Published by Harvard University Press 1974

The Missionary Enterprise in China and America

Edited by: John K. Fairbank
Preface by: John K. Fairbank

Volume 6 in the series Harvard Studies in American-East Asian Relations

https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674333505

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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 missionary roles in the United States and in China. Early American Protestant missions moved on from the Near East to the Far East. The second great surge of American missionary expansion in the 1880s was signaled by the formation of more business-like mission boards, by the Student Volunteer Movement to recruit liberal arts college graduates for evangelism abroad, and by the Layman's Movement to back them up. During the same period in China, missionary journalism was reaching a new Chinese-Christian community, and missionary educational and medical work was building modern institutions of social value for Chinese communities. A few "Christian reformers" emerged in China's treaty ports, and by the end of the century there was a missionary contribution to the reform movement in general.

By the 1920s missionary and Chinese Christian educators were collaborating in Christian colleges like Yenching University, only to meet eventual disaster as the Nationalist revolution and Japan's invasion precipitated the great Chinese Communist-led revolution of the 1940s and after. American missions contributed fundamentally both to the revolutionary changes in China and to the American public response to them, although their impact on American policy s less clear.

Fourteen contributors studying both sides of the missionary effort, in China and in America, present case studies that suggest conclusions and themes for research.

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Fairbank John King :

John King Fairbank was Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and Director of the East Asian Research Center at Harvard University.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Illustrations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Introduction: The Many Faces of Protestant Missions in China and the United States John K. Fairbank Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I Protestant Missions in American Expansion
Near East Notes and Far East Queries James A. Field Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
Evangelical Logistics: Mission Support and Resources to 1920 Valentin H. Rabe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	56
The Student Volunteer Movement and Its Role in China Missions, 1886-1920 Clifton J. Phillips Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
Modernism and Missions: The Liberal Search for an Exportable Christianity, 1875—1935 William R. Hutchison Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	110
PART II Christianity and the Transformation of China
The Theology of American Missionaries in China, 1900— 1950 M. Searle Bates Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
Christianity in the Chinese Idiom: Young J. Allen and the Early Chiao-hui hsin-pao, 1868—1870 Adrian A. Bennett and Kwang-Ching Liu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
Littoral and Hinterland in Nineteenth Century China: The "Christian" Reformers Paul A. Cohen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
Christianity and Nationalism: The Career of Wu Lei-ch’uan at Yenching University Philip West Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	226
PART III China Mission Images and American Policies
Ends and Means: Missionary Justification of Force in Nineteenth Century China Stuart Creighton Miller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
Why They Stayed: American Church Politics and Chinese Nationalism in the Twenties Shirley Stone Garrett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
The Missionary Response to the Nationalist Revolution Paul A. Varg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311
The Missionary Enterprise and Theories of Imperialism Arthur Schlesinger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	336
Notes. Glossary. Index
NOTES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	377
GLOSSARY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	425
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	427
HARVARD STUDIES IN AMERICAN-EAST ASIAN RELATIONS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	443
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Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Copyright year: 1974
Edition: Reprint 2013
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 442
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 2
- Tables: 4
Keywords: POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General; RELIGION / Christian Ministry / Missions; HISTORY / General; Missions -- China.; Protestant churches -- Missions.

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Published: October 1, 2013
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Published: February 5, 1974
ISBN: 9780674333499