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...Johan Elverskog Han-Mongol Encounters and Missionary Endeavors: A History of Scheut in Ordos (Hetao), 1874–1911 . By Patrick Taveirne . Leuven, Belgium .: Leuven University Press and the Ferdinand Verbiest Foundation , 2004 . 684 pp. €52.00 (paper). Chronique du Toumet-Ortos...

...Ines G. Županov Providence and the Raj: Imperial Mission and Missionary Imperialism . By Gerald Studdert-Kennedy . New Delhi : Sage Publications ; London : Thousand Oaks , 1998 . 273 pp. $44.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Chandra Mallampalli The First Protestant Missionary to India: Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg (1683–1710) . By Brijraj Singh . New Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1999 . 195 pp. $27.50 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 1095...

...Mitch Numark Abstract A consideration of colonial Bombay enriches the understanding of the activities and ideas of Christian missionaries and Orientalists in India and elucidates British conceptions of “the religions of India” and the production of colonialist knowledge. This article focuses...

...George E. Paulsen Abstract China's defeat in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894–95 not only revealed to the world the weakness of the Celestial Empire, but also raised a number of critical problems for the Imperial government, none more complicated than that of protecting foreign missionaries...

...James McCutcheon Abstract English repositories are gradually organizing and indexing their large holdings of missionary material under the guidance of trained archivists. The general practice is not to bind their manuscripts, but to place them in boxes arranged chronologically by country or, where...

...Loren W. Crabtree An American Missionary Community in China, 1895–1905 . By Sidney A. Forsythe . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1971 . (Harvard East Asian Monograph). 141 pp. Index, n.p.l. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1972 1972 932 JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...Marilyn B. Young The Missionary Enterprise in China and America . Edited By John K. Fairbank . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1974 . 373 pp. Illustrations, Tables, Abbreviations, Notes, Glossary, Index. $15.00 Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1976 1976 132...

...Mary Schaller Blaufuss Missionary Tropics: The Catholic Frontier in India, 16th–17th Centuries . By Ines G. Županov . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press , 2005 . xii , 374 pp. $75.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2007 2007 Tensions...

...John Israel An American Missionary in China: John Leighton Stuart and Chinese-American Relations . By Yu-ming Shaw . Cambridge : Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University , distributed by Harvard University Press, 1992 . xv, 381 pp. $30.00. Copyright © The Association...

... so long as culture is not conceived to be a reified, transcendental, symbolic system, but instead as a set of ongoing, self-transforming practices and accommodations to changing circumstances. P. STEVEN SANGREN Cornell University The Jiangyin Mission Station: An American Missionary Community in China...

... to Twentieth Centuries: From the Wait to the Reality. China, South-East Asia, Japan: An Anthology of Missionary Texts]. Edited by Catherin Marin . Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols , 2007 . 464 pp. €42.75 . Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009 2009 The correct and complete...

...Murray A. Rubinstein The China Call: The American Missionary in China . By James Culp Productions for the Film History Foundation, 650 Fifth Street, No. 202, San Francisco, Calif . 94107. VHS and 3/4״ Video Format, $295.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992...

...John Lee The Cross and the Rising Sun: Vol. 2: The British Protestant Missionary Movement in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan, 1865–1945 . By A. Hamish Ion . Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press , 1993 . xii, 324 pp. $49.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...Richard King Imagined Hinduism: British Protestant Missionary Construction of Hinduism, 1793–1900 . By Geoffrey A. Oddie . New Delhi : Sage Publications , 2006 . 376 pp. $79.95 (cloth); $36.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2007 2007 In recent...

... been published in recent years by Chinese and Japanese scholars detracts considerably from the value of Dr. Michael's work. Cornell University KNIGHT BIGGERSTAFF Missionary and mandarin: the Jesuits at the court of China. BY ARNOLD H. ROWBOTHAM. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press...

...Alan Strathern The Portuguese Missionary in 16th and 17th Century Ceylon: The Spiritual Conquest . By Gaston Perera . Colombo : Vijitha Yapa , 2009 . xvi, 430 pp. Rs. 1000. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011 Gaston Perera is known for his historical...

...Richard VanNess Simmons The Language of the Sangleys: A Chinese Vernacular in Missionary Sources of the Seventeenth Century . By Henning Klöter . Leiden : Brill , 2011 . xxii, 411 pp., 32 pages of color plates. $179.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2012...

...Margo S. Gewurtz BOOK REVIEWS CHINA AND INNER ASIA CHINA AND INNER ASIA 105 Christianity in China: Early Protestant Missionary Writings. Edited by SUZANNE WILSON BARNETT and J O H N KING FAIRBANK. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1985. xi, 237 pp. $20.00. Studies of missionaries...

...Suzanne Wilson Barnett China, American Catholicism, and the Missionary . By Thomas A. Breslin . University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press , 1980 . 116 pp. Notes, Principal Sources Consulted, Index. $15.95. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1982 1982 BOOK...