Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : The many faces of Protestant missions in China and the United States / John K. Fairbank
  • Near East notes and Far East queries / James A. Field, Jr.
  • Evangelical logistics : mission support and resources to 1920 / Valentin H. Rabe
  • The student volunteer movement and its role in China missions, 1886-1920 / Clifton J. Phillips
  • Modernism and missions : the liberal search for an exportable Christianity, 1875-1935 / William R. Hutchison
  • The theology of American missionaries in China, 1900-1950 / M. Searle Bates
  • Christianity in the Chinese idiom : Young J. Allen and the early Chiao-hui hsin-pao, 1868-1870 / Adrian A. Bennett and Kwang-Ching Liu
  • Littoral and Hinterland in nineteenth century China : the "Christian" reformers / Paul A. Cohen
  • Christianity and nationalism : the career of Wu Le-ch'uan at Yenching University / Philip West
  • Ends and means : missionary justification of force in nineteenth century China / Stuart Creighton Miller
  • Why they stayed : American church politics and Chinese nationalism in the twenties / Shirley Stone Garrett
  • The missionary response to the nationalist revolution / Paul A. Varg
  • The missionary enterprise and theories of imperialism / Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.