China's MillionsBanner-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 |
THE SECOND GENERATION 18751888 | 179 |
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 |
480 | |
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