Minor Heresies Major Departures
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Minor Heresies Major Departures
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Author : John Jenkins Espey
language : en
Publisher: University of California Presson Demand
Release Date : 1994
Minor Heresies Major Departures written by John Jenkins Espey and has been published by University of California Presson Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Offers a look at the boyhood memories of the author, who was born in Shanghai to Protestant missionary parents, and spent the greater part of his life there until graduating from the Shanghai American school
Minor Heresies Major Departures
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Author : John H. Espey
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2023-12-22
Minor Heresies Major Departures written by John H. Espey and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-22 with Religion categories.
An American boy, son of Presbyterian missionaries, was born in Shanghai early in this century. The boy lived two lives, one within the pious church compound, the other along the canal and in the alleys of a traditional Chinese city. There he faced the alley brats' Lady Bandit, heard the shrill screams of a child's foot-binding, learned rank obscenities from passing boatmen, and, while still in short pants, chewed Sen-Sen and ogled snake-charmers in the old Native City. He sailed up the Yangtze to attend boarding school, and along with his Boy Scout patrol, met Chiang Kai-shek. And when John Espey grew up, he wrote about his years in China. This memoir is the story of those years, and while it is a wry, affectionate account, it also conveys an often overlooked picture of China in the years before communism. Seen through the eyes of a child, the interplay of religion, commerce, and American colonialism that took place during this period is revealed more tellingly—and more lightheartedly—than in many an analysis by an "old China hand." Espey's bent is to use a "Chinese" approach to his subject, that is, to hide a second meaning within his words, to speak in parables. This he learned from both his single-minded missionary father and the family's Chinese cook. The result is that the reader of Minor Heresies, Major Departures will learn a great deal about the Pacific Rim while having a rollicking good time.
Minor Heresies
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Author : John Jenkins Espey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1947
Minor Heresies written by John Jenkins Espey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1947 with categories.
Grace
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Author : Grace Roys
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2017-04-12
Grace written by Grace Roys and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-12 with Religion categories.
Grace Woodbridge Roys suffered from bi-polar disease before it was well understood. Her daughter feared that her children would also suffer mental illness. This annotation of Grace's diary opens the early 1900s missionary world in China and the personality of Grace to the reader. In December 1910 Grace married Harvey Curtis Roys, who was teaching physics at Kiang Nan government school in Nanking, under the sponsorship of the YMCA. Grace had had a mental breakdown weeks earlier when her missionary father forbade the marriage. The diary records their early married life, the births of their first two children, their social life with other missionaries in China, many of whom made major contributions to Nanking life and education: medical doctors and nurses, theology professors, agricultural innovators, and founders of universities, hospitals, nursing schools, and schools for young Chinese women and men. Included is their experience evacuating during the Sun Yat-sen Revolution of 1911. Well-known missionaries of that time came to tea and taught at the Hillcrest School that the mothers began for foreign children. The Nanyang Exposition took place in 1910, too, as China was in the throes of entering the modern era, with trains, electricity, telegraphs, and a new interest in democracy.
Global Shanghai 1850 2010
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Author : Jeffrey N Wasserstrom
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2008-11-25
Global Shanghai 1850 2010 written by Jeffrey N Wasserstrom and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11-25 with History categories.
This book explores the play of international forces and international ideas about Shanghai, looking backward as far as its transformation into a subdivided treaty port in the 1840s, and looking forward to its upcoming hosting of China’s first World’s Fair, the 2010 Expo. As such, Global Shanghai is a lively and informative read for students and scholars of Chinese studies and urban studies and anyone interested in the history of Shanghai.
Minor Heresies
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Author : John J. Espey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-03-01
Minor Heresies written by John J. Espey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-01 with categories.
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Growing Up With God And Empire
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Author : Stephanie Vandrick
language : en
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Release Date : 2018-12-07
Growing Up With God And Empire written by Stephanie Vandrick and has been published by Multilingual Matters this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-07 with Religion categories.
This book analyzes the memoirs of 42 ‘missionary kids’ – the children of North American Protestant missionaries in countries all over the world during the 20th century. Using a postcolonial lens the book explores ways in which the missionary enterprise was part of, or intersected with, the Western colonial enterprise, and ways in which a colonial mindset is unconsciously manifested in these memoirs. The book explores how the memoirists’ sites and experiences are exoticized; the missionary kids’ likelihood of learning – or not learning – local languages; the missionary families’ treatment of servants and other local people; and gender, race and social class aspects of the missionary kids’ experiences. Like other Third Culture Kids, the memoirists are migrants, travelers, border-crossers and border-dwellers who alternate between insider and outsider statuses, and their words shed light on the effects of movement and travel on children’s lives and development.
Protestants Abroad
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Author : David A. Hollinger
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2019-06-11
Protestants Abroad written by David A. Hollinger and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-11 with History categories.
Between the 1890s and the Vietnam era, many thousands of American Protestant missionaries were sent to live throughout the non-European world. They expected to change the people they encountered, but those foreign people ended up transforming the missionaries. Their experience abroad made many of these missionaries and their children critical of racism, imperialism, and religious orthodoxy. When they returned home, they brought new liberal values back to their own society. Protestants Abroad reveals the untold story of how these missionary-connected individuals left an enduring mark on American public life as writers, diplomats, academics, church officials, publishers, foundation executives, and social activists. --
Face
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Author : Aimee Liu
language : en
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Release Date : 2009-10-31
Face written by Aimee Liu and has been published by Grand Central Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-31 with Fiction categories.
In her piercing and pignant fictional debut, Aimee Liu crosses continents and generations, from New York's Chinatown to pre-war Shaghai, to tell a tale of a young woman trapped between two worlds.
Urban Food Culture
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Author : Cecilia Leong-Salobir
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2019-04-02
Urban Food Culture written by Cecilia Leong-Salobir and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-02 with Social Science categories.
This book explores the food history of twentieth-century Sydney, Shanghai and Singapore within an Asian Pacific network of flux and flows. It engages with a range of historical perspectives on each city’s food and culinary histories, including colonial culinary legacies, restaurants, cafes, street food, market gardens, supermarkets and cookbooks, examining the exchange of goods and services and how the migration of people to the urban centres informed the social histories of the cities’ foodways in the contexts of culinary nationalism, ethnic identities and globalization. Considering the recent food history of the three cities and its complex narrative of empire, trade networks and migration patterns, this book discusses key aspects of each city’s cuisine in the twentieth century, examining the interwoven threads of colonialism and globalization.
