China mission : a personal history from the last imperial dynasty to the people's republic / Audrey Ronning Topping.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Topping, Audrey.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Topping, Audrey.

Missionaries--China--Biography.

Missionaries.

China.

Ronning family.

Topping, Audrey--Childhood and youth.

China--History--1861-1912.

History.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 364 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2013]

Contents:

Part I Arriving in the Middle Kingdom

1 Destination Shanghai 7

2 Crossing the Pacific 20

3 Sailing up the Yangtze River to Hankow 28

4 Culture Shock 38

5 The New Mission Field 49

6 Journey up the Han River 57

7 Opening the Ronning School 64

8 The Sino-Japanese War, 1894-1895 70

9 Carving up the Chinese Melon 76

10 Thea 85

11 Hundred Days of Reform, 1898 93

12 The Year of the "Boxers United in Righteousness" 100

13 The Gathering Storm 110

14 The Palace Coup in Peking 115

15 Escaping the Boxers 124

Part II Home Leave and Return

16 "Foreign Devils" in the Homeland 135

17 Hannah Returns Home 142

18 The Siege of Peking 155

19 The Ronnings Return to China, 1901 169

20 Roots of Revolution, 1904-1905 178

21 Sun Yat-sen 184

22 Famine 188

23 Missionary Conference in Peking 194

24 The Old Silk Road 199

25 The Last Years 204

26 The End of the Imperial Qing Dynasty 211

Part III Settling in Canada

27 New Frontiers 217

28 Vikings Go Forth 221

29 Three Greenhorns on the Edson Trail 228

30 Valhalla Homestead 235

31 Nelius 243

Part IV Chester Returns to China

32 In the Footsteps of Halvor, 1921 249

33 The Grand Canal 261

34 Return to Fancheng, 1923 265

35 Narrow Escape, 1927 274

36 Uncle Talbert 283

37 Camrose and Valhalla 293

38 Chungking 298

39 Chester's Family Arrives in War-torn Nanking 308

40 Audrey and Top 325.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780807152782

0807152781

OCLC:

833381114