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Author Kessler, Lawrence D.

Title The Jiangyin Mission Station : an american missionary community in China, 1895-1951 / by Lawrence D. Kessler
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [1996]
©1996

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Description xiv, 212 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series James Sprunt studies in history and political science ; v. 61
James Sprunt studies in history and political science ; v. 61
Contents 1. Rivershade: Introductions -- 2. Carried Away By a Tiger: Opening the Jiangyin Station -- 3. Aggressive All Along the Line: Laying the Foundations of Mission Work -- 4. As Brothers to Us in Trouble: Humanitarian Aid in the Early Republic -- 5. This Precocious Child: Response to Chinese Nationalism -- 6. Rays of Light: Establishing the Christian Church in Jiangyin -- 7. Riding the Tiger: Japan's Invasion, Communist Triumph, and the Demise of the Station -- 8. Hands Across the Sea: A Special Relationship with the Home Church -- 9. Good Works: Missions and Modern China
Analysis China
Presbyterian churches Missions
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [188]-204) and index
Subject First Presbyterian Church (Wilmington, N.C.) -- History.
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. -- Missions -- China -- Chiang-yin shih -- History
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. -- Missions -- China -- Jiangyin Shi -- History.
Missionary settlements -- China -- Chiang-yin shih -- History
Missions, American -- China -- Chiang-yin shih -- History
Missionary settlements -- China -- Jiangyin Shi -- History.
Missions, American -- China -- Jiangyin Shi -- History.
Presbyterian Church -- Missions -- China -- Chiang-yin shih -- History
Presbyterian Church -- Missions -- China -- Jiangyin Shi -- History.
SUBJECT Jiangyin Shi (China) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr94040412 -- Church history. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005023
LC no. 95041591
ISBN 0807850624 (paperback: alk. paper)