Why They Stayed: American Church Politics and Chinese Nationalism in the Twenties

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Introduction: The Many Faces of Protestant Missions in China and the United States 1
5. PART I Protestant Missions in American Expansion
6. Near East Notes and Far East Queries 23
7. Evangelical Logistics: Mission Support and Resources to 1920 56
8. The Student Volunteer Movement and Its Role in China Missions, 1886-1920 91
9. Modernism and Missions: The Liberal Search for an Exportable Christianity, 1875—1935 110
10. PART II Christianity and the Transformation of China
11. The Theology of American Missionaries in China, 1900— 1950 135
12. Christianity in the Chinese Idiom: Young J. Allen and the Early Chiao-hui hsin-pao, 1868—1870 159
13. Littoral and Hinterland in Nineteenth Century China: The "Christian" Reformers 197
14. Christianity and Nationalism: The Career of Wu Lei-ch’uan at Yenching University 226
15. PART III China Mission Images and American Policies
16. Ends and Means: Missionary Justification of Force in Nineteenth Century China 249
17. Why They Stayed: American Church Politics and Chinese Nationalism in the Twenties 283
18. The Missionary Response to the Nationalist Revolution 311
19. The Missionary Enterprise and Theories of Imperialism 336
20. Notes. Glossary. Index
21. NOTES 377
22. GLOSSARY 425
23. Index 427
24. HARVARD STUDIES IN AMERICAN-EAST ASIAN RELATIONS 443
25. CONTRIBUTORS 445