China's Millions

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, Mar 5, 2007 - History - 506 pages
Banner-carrying Salvation Army marchers, stone-silent Quakers, jumpy Midwestern revivalists, and Prayer-book Anglicans all made up the mixed multitude sent to the Middle Kingdom by the China Inland Mission (CIM) in the nineteenth century. In China's Millions veteran historian Alvyn Austin crafts a compelling narrative of the sprawling history of the China Inland Mission. This book introduces readers to a remarkable array of sights, from the visionary, charismatic sect-leader Pastor Hsi, to the "wordless book," a missionary teaching device that fit perfectly with Chinese color cosmology, to the opium-soaked aftermath of the North China Famine of 187779. Clear, readable, and well researched, China's Millions digs deeply into the Chinese and Western past to tell a story of the strange yet hopeful result of two cultures colliding. - Publisher.
 

Contents

Sectarian Conversion
11
Then and Now
28
The WicketGate 18511865
59
Calling the Pilgrim Band 18651866
78
The Land of Strangers 18661875
111
The Valley of the Shadow 18751880
139
National Righteousness 18751888
181
The Octopus 18751888
217
Gods Ambassadors 18881899
332
The Middle Eden 18881899
354
The End of the Middle Eden 1900
395
The Aftermath
421
Something Happened
440
Testing the Spirits
448
The Delectable Mountains
454
index
480

The Heavenly Invitation Offices 18801888
255
The New World 18881900
291

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About the author (2007)

Alvyn Austin, born in Calcutta to CIM missionaries, isassistant professor of history at Brock University, St.Catharines, Ontario.

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