China Mission : A Personal History from the Last Imperial Dynasty to the People's Republic /

When the Reverend Halvor Ronning, his sister Thea, and fellow missionary Hannah Rorem set out in 1891 to found a Lutheran mission and school in the interior of China, they could not have foreseen the ways in which that decision would ripple across generations of the Ronning family. Halvor and Hannah...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Topping, Audrey
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Topping, Audrey.
Ronning family.
Topping, Audrey > Childhood and youth.
Missionaries.
RELIGION > Christian Ministry > Missions.
Missionnaires > Chine > Biographies.
Missionaries > China > Biography.
China.
Chine > Histoire > 1861-1912.
China > History > 1861-1912.
Biographies.
History.
collective biographies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / Lawrence R. Sullivan
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Milestones in the Lives of the Ronning Family
  • Author's Note on Sources and Chinese Romanization
  • Prologue : China's Incredible Find
  • Part I. Arriving in the Middle Kingdom
  • 1. Destination Shanghai
  • 2. Crossing the Pacific
  • 3. Sailing up the Yangtze River to Hankow
  • 4. Culture Shock
  • 5. The New Mission Field
  • 6. Journey up the Han River
  • 7. Opening the Ronning School
  • 8. The Sino-Japanese War, 1894-1895
  • 9. Carving up the Chinese Melon
  • 10. Thea
  • 11. Hundred Days of Reform, 1898
  • 12. The Year of the "Boxers United in Righteousness"
  • 13. The Gathering Storm
  • 14. The Palace Coup in Peking
  • 15. Escaping the Boxers
  • Part II. Home Leave and Return
  • 16. "Foreign Devils" in the Homeland
  • 17. Hannah Returns Home
  • 18. The Siege of Peking
  • 19. The Ronnings Return to China, 1901
  • 20. Roots of Revolution, 1904-1905
  • 21. Sun Yat-sen
  • 22. Famine
  • 23. Missionary Conference in Peking
  • 24. The Old Silk Road
  • 25. The Last Years
  • 26. The End of the Imperial Qing Dynasty
  • Part III. Settling in Canada
  • 27. New Frontiers
  • 28. Vikings Go Forth
  • 29. Three Greenhorns on the Edson Trail
  • 30. Valhalla Homestead
  • 31. Nelius
  • Part IV. Chester Returns to China
  • 32. In the Footsteps of Halvor, 1921
  • 33. The Grand Canal
  • 34. Return to Fancheng, 1923
  • 35. Narrow Escape, 1927
  • 36. Uncle Talbert
  • 37. Camrose and Valhalla
  • 38. Chungking
  • 39. Chester's Family Arrives in War-torn Nanking
  • 40. Audrey and Top.

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