Western trade, Western politics and Western religion are the three transforming forces this book examines in China at the start of the twentieth century. A senior American mission administrator, Brown draws on his own travels through Shantung, to the grave of Confucius and to Peking compounds scarred by the Boxer siege, before analysing commerce, diplomacy, missions and the coming awakening of the nation.
An informed snapshot of late Qing China seen from the missionary movement, with that movement’s assumptions. Download the free EPUB.