Taking Christianity to China : Alabama missionaries in the middle kingdom, 1850-1950 /
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
©1997.
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Table of Contents:
- The light of science and revelation: the mission
- You can see all nations here: Alabama culture and the missionary enterprise
- The intense longing of my heart:
- Preparing for China missions
- One of the hardest things I ever undertook:
- First contact with China
- The peculiar customs are so bewildering:
- Understanding Chinese culture
- The best way is to live one day at a time:
- Missionary life in China
- A trip of preaching, healing, and teaching: missionary work
- I was a different person, my girlhood was past:
- Woman consciousness among Alabama missionaries
- Error is propagated along with truth: conflict among Alabama missionaries
- Jesus Christ had nothing to do with the French:
- Missionaries and Chinese politics:
- You who drink the water, do not forget the person who dug the well:
- The legacies of Alabama missionaries in China.