Author: Howard Mowll (His Grace, the Archbishop of Sydney)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
West China as Seen Through the Eyes of a Western
Author: Howard Mowll (His Grace, the Archbishop of Sydney)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
West China as Seen Through the Eyes of a Westerner
Author: Howard West Kilvinton Mowll (Abp. of Sydney)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
West China as Seen Through the Eyes of a Westerner
Author: Howard West Kilvinton MowllPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Through the Valley of the Shadow
Author: Linda BanksPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532686730
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
This compelling collection tells five stories of young Australian women who served in times of armed conflict in early twentieth-century China. These courageous missionaries lived in the midst of pre-Boxer uprisings, the Republican revolution, clashes between regional warlords, Japanese occupation during World War II, and civil war between Nationalists and Communists. Suffering deprivation and hardship with the Chinese people, they were shot at and bombed, endured capture and imprisonment, and risked their lives to save others. Some were even killed. Working in villages, hospitals, schools, universities, orphanages, and refugee centers, these women helped shape the emergence of modern China. In partnership with local people they helped raise the status of women and develop educational, medical, and welfare institutions that exist to this day. Based on thorough first-hand research, visits to various sites in China, and including a number of historic photos, this book is written for anyone interested in the lives of people who made a difference to the world around them.
Children of the Massacre
Author: Linda BanksPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 166672503X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Early morning on 1 August 1895, a group of armed insurgents attacked a remote mission station in China. An Irish couple, Robert and Louisa Stewart, and two of their young children were murdered. Three other children were wounded but escaped, while three older boys were away at school in England. From their early years, the six surviving Stewart children, most of whom were born in China, believed they had “unfinished business” there. One after another, each returned to their adopted country, where they founded and served schools, churches, student hostels, and hospitals. Their visionary contributions took place against the backdrop of the Nationalist Revolution, anti-Western demonstrations, and the Japanese invasion and occupation of China. More than seventy-five years ago, Bishop R. O. Hall of Hong Kong stated: “the story of the Stewart family needs to be told!” This thoroughly researched volume finally documents the lives and legacy of one of the most impressive families in missionary history.
Through Your Eyes: Religious Alterity and the Early Modern Western Imagination
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004464921
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
The focus of Through Your Eyes: Religious Alterity and the Early Modern Western Imagination is the (mostly Western) understanding, representation and self-critical appropriation of the "religious other" between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. Mutually constitutive processes of selfing/othering are observed through the lenses of creedal Jews, a bhakti Brahmin, a widely translated Morisco historian, a collector of Western and Eastern singularia, Christian missionaries in Asia, critical converts, toleration theorists, and freethinkers: in other words, people dwelling in an 'in-between' space which undermines any binary conception of the Self and the Other. The genesis of the volume was in exchanges between eight international scholars and the two editors, intellectual historian Giovanni Tarantino and anthropologist Paola von Wyss-Giacosa, who share an interest in comparatism, debates over toleration, and history of emotions. Contributors are: Daniel Barbu, Vincent Carretta, Ananya Chakravarti, Talya Fishman, Rolando Minuti, Fernando Rodríguez Mediano, Paul Rule, Knut Martin Stünkel, Giovanni Tarantino, and Paola von Wyss-Giacosa.
Through Burmah to western China, notes of a journey in 1863
Author: Clement WilliamsA Naturalist in Western China
Author: Ernest Henry WilsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
A Journey in South-western China from Ssuch'uan to Western Yünnan
Author: Sir Alexander HosiePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
The Cultures of Ancient Xinjiang, Western China: Crossroads of the Silk Roads
Author: Alison BettsPublisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1789694078
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
One of the least known but culturally rich and complex regions located at the heart of Asia, Xinjiang was a hub for the Silk Roads, serving international links between cultures to the west, east, north and south. Trade, artefacts, foods, technologies, ideas, beliefs, animals and people traversed the glacier covered mountain and desert boundaries.