{"product_id":"9781788690560","title":"The Missionary Kaleidoscope: Portraits of Six China Missionaries","description":"\u003cp\u003eMissionaries in China engaged in a fascinating variety of occupations in their quest to make converts. The portraits of the six missionaries presented here attest to the astonishing range of their evangelistic ingenuity. From the nineteenth century pioneer Karl Gutzlaff to the twentieth century woman medical doctor Alie Gale, missionaries toiled in a wide range of endeavors as they sought to spread the word of Christianity among the Chinese.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJessie G. Lutz’s (Rutgers University, Emeritus) essay on \u003cstrong\u003eKarl Gutzlaff\u003c\/strong\u003e details his attempts to use Chinese evangelists to spread the Christian message — a technique criticized by his contemporaries who believed his Chinese employees had insufficient knowledge of Christianity to be effective and, worse, did not work but eagerly accepted their salaries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJost Zetzsche’s (independent scholar) account of \u003cstrong\u003eAbsalom Sydenstricker\u003c\/strong\u003e and his work on translating the Bible into Chinese offers a view of the difficulties the scholar had rendering the Scripture into Chinese but also in reconciling, or failing to reconcile, the personal differences between the Chinese and the Westerners.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKathleen Lodwick’s work on \u003cstrong\u003eJames Gilmour\u003c\/strong\u003e gives a glimpse into the life of this adventuring missionary who labored twenty long years in Mongolia without converting a single Mongolian but who did write two books on Mongolia — books that have endured owing to their engaging descriptions of the people and the land of that remote region.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eW.K. Cheng’s chapter on \u003cstrong\u003eJohn Macgowan\u003c\/strong\u003e reveals that, unlike many missionaries who struggled with the moral ambivalence of their presence in China and Western expansionism, Macgowan uninhibitedly affirmed the intimacy between Mission and Empire in the thirteen major works he wrote on China, Chinese life, thought, religious beliefs, and customs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCristina Zaccarini (Adelphi University) relates the work of \u003cstrong\u003eAlie Gale\u003c\/strong\u003e, M.D., an American woman who was not formally appointed as a missionary but married to one. Gale not only organized and ran her own hospitals but she made significant contributions to the field of pubic health in China.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFinally, Linda Benson’s (Oakland University) account of \u003cstrong\u003eAlice Mildred Cable\u003c\/strong\u003e tells of an independently financed member of the China Inland Mission whose early career was overshadowed by her later venture, with two women colleagues, into China’s remote Northwest where they traveled for many years preaching in villages and distributing Christian tracts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Camphor Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47064116855024,"sku":"9781788690560","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781788690560_p0.jpg?v=1763739396","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781788690560","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}