The home base of American China missions, 1880-1920 / by Valentin H. Rabe.

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Rabe, Valentin H., 1930-

Contributor:

Harvard University. Council on East Asian Studies.

Series:

Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 75.

Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 75

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Missions--China--Societies, etc.

Missions.

Missions, American--China.

Missions, American.

Protestant churches--Missions--Societies, etc.

Protestant churches.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Distribution:

Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 1978.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Harvard University Asia Center, 1978.

Summary:

During the closing decades of the nineteenth century, approximately two dozen Protestant mission societies, which since 1812 had been sending Americans abroad to evangelize non-Christians, coordinated their enterprise and expanded their operations with unprecedented urgency and efficiency. Ambitious innovations characterized the work in traditional and new foreign mission fields, but the most radical changes occurred in the institutionalization of what contemporaries referred to as the home base of the mission movement.Valentin Rabe focuses on the recruitment of personnel, fundraising, administration, promotional propaganda, and other logistical problems faced by the agencies in the United States. When generalizations concerning the American base require demonstration or references to the field of operations, China--the country in which American missionaries applied the greatest proportion of the movement's resources by the 1920s--is used as the primary illustration.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Valentin H. Rabe

Introduction / Valentin H. Rabe

The Movement Organized / Valentin H. Rabe

Supporters and Staff: Those Who Stayed Home / Valentin H. Rabe

The Missionaries / Valentin H. Rabe

Financial Supporters / Valentin H. Rabe

Fund Raising and Financial Policies / Valentin H. Rabe

Epilogue / Valentin H. Rabe

Notes / Valentin H. Rabe

Bibliography / Valentin H. Rabe

Index / Valentin H. Rabe

Harvard East Asian Monographs / Valentin H. Rabe.

Notes:

Includes index.

Texte remanie de Ph. D. diss.--Cambridge, Mass., 1964.

Bibliography: p. 271-289.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-68417-206-3

OCLC:

1001537885

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781684172061 DOI