CHINA AND METHODISM

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Cincinnati [1906], Jennings. Blue cloth, top edge gilt, very good, 118p., list of Methodist Episcopalian missionaries in China, 9 x 16 cm., contents clean, solid. FIRST EDITION Designed to assist American Methodists in gaining a good understanding of China & missionary activities there. * CONTENTS: 1. Land and People 2. Religions 3. Christianity in the Empire 4. Methodist Episcopal Chyurch in China 5. Possiblities. With Honor Roll [a list] of Methodist Episcopal Missionaries in China. * THE BOOK: " A half of this book is allocated for a general account of the land, the people, and the religions of China. Because interest in and appreciation of the American Methodists work depend upon seeing Missions in their relations to the unfolding life of this vast empire. The author has presented a brief outline to enable American Methodists to understand the problem which confronts the mission and to assist in making preparation for suitable participation in the centennial celebration of the founding of Protestant Missions in China." * The author was a known China missionary and wrote two other useful primary resources on China: a. THE AWAKENING OF CHINA. b. CHINA AN INTERPRETATION. * WHO WAS JAMES WHITFORD BASHFORD: James Whitford Bashford [1849 -1919] was known in China by his Pinyin name: Bó Xifú; or his Foochow Romanized name: Báik Sék-hók. He was a bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the USA and the first bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church in China. . In 1904 Bashford was assigned to the mission field in China at his own request at age 55. On October 20 he arrived in Foochow, and in the same year he went to Shanghai where he became the first resident bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church in China. From the summer of 1908 onwards, Bashford served in Peking. Liberally quoted from Wikipedia, see below. * THE AUTHOR OF THREE EXCELLENT PRIMARY SOURCES ON CHINA: The author was a known China missionary and wrote two other other useful primary resources on China: a. THE AWAKENING OF CHINA. b. CHINA AN INTERPRETATION. Please check with us to see if they are in stock. * REFERENCES..…

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CHINA AND METHODISM
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BASHFORD, James W.
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CHINA GUIDEBOOKS, CHINA SOCIAL SCIENCE, FOREIGNERS IN CHINA

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