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The Jiangyin Mission Station - An American Missionary Community in China, 1895-1951 (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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The Jiangyin Mission Station - An American Missionary Community in China, 1895-1951 (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Series: The James Sprunt Studies in History and Political Science
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Lawrence Kessler uses the Jiangyin mission station in the Shanghai
region of China to explore Chinese-American cultural interaction in
the first half of the twentieth century. He concludes that the
Protestant missionary movement was welcomed by the Chinese not
because of the religious message it spread but because of the
secular benefits it provided. Like other missions, the Jiangyin
Station, which was sponsored by the First Presbyterian Church of
Wilmington, North Carolina, combined evangelism with social welfare
programs and enjoyed a respected position within the local
community. By 1930, the station supported a hospital and several
schools and engaged in anti-opium campaigns and local peacekeeping
efforts. In many ways, however, Christianity was a disruptive force
in Chinese society, and Kessler examines Chinese ambivalence toward
the mission movement, the relationship between missions and
imperialism, and Westerners' response to Chinese nationalism. He
also addresses the Jiangyin Station's close ties to, and impact
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