Introduction / Robert E. Carbonneau, C.P. – Shifting landscapes: Sino-American Catholic identitites, 1900-present / Anthony E. Clark. – China through the magic lantern: Passionist Father Theophane Maguire and American Catholic missionary images of China in the early Twentieth Century / Margaret Kuo. – An American adventure: the United States Vincentians in Jiangxi before 1949 / John J. Harney. – Bishop Fulton J. Sheen and the image of China and Chinese Catholicism in Worldmission magazine, 1950-1966 / Robert E. Carbonneau, C.P. – Cameras and conversions: crossing boundaries in American Catholic missionary experience and photography in modern China / Joseph W. Ho. – Richard Madsen, China scholar and public sociologist / Michael Agliardo, S.J.

Developing mission : photography, filmmaking, and American missionaries in modern China / Joseph W. Ho.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: All Things Visible and Invisible -- New Lives, New Optics : Missionary Modernity and Visual Practices in Interwar Republican China -- Converting Visions : Photographic Mediations of Catholic Identity in West Hunan, 1921-1929 -- The Movie Camera and the Mission : Vernacular Filmmaking as China-US Bridge, 1931-1936 -- Chaos in Three Frames : Fragmented Imaging and the Second Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 -- Memento Mori : Loss, Nostalgia, and the Future in Postwar Missionary Visuality -- Epilogue: Latent Images.

"A transnational cultural history of US and Chinese communities framed by missionary lenses-reconstructing the lives and afterlives of images, cameras, and visual imaginations. It illuminates the centrality of visual practices in modern American missionary experiences and representations of China, even as changing Sino-US relations radically transformed the lives of those behind and in front of the lens"--  Provided by publisher.

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Contents: Introduction : China, the missionary project, and the career of Hazel Todd -- From Yangzhou to Hunan : the early years, 1920-1930 -- Reassignment to Anhui : the middle years, 1930-1937 -- On the front lines in Anhui : the final years, 1938-1941.

Features a small number of black-and-white in-text photographs and map (p.2)

The conversion of missionaries : liberalism in American Protestant missions in China, 1907-1932 / Lian Xi.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-239) and index.

Mission and beyond : Edward H. Hume -- The road that bent : Frank J. Rawlinson -- Changing the mandate of heaven : Pearl S. Buck -- Dismantling denominationalism and the faith of the fathers -- Grafting Christianity onto a Nationalist China -- Toward a union of religions -- The reflex influence.

Like many of her fellow missionaries to China, Pearl Buck found that she was not immune to the influence of her adopted home. Some missionaries even found themselves "convert[ed] ... by the Far East." In this book Lian Xi tells the story of Buck and two other American missionaries to China in the early twentieth century who gradually came to question, and eventually reject, the evangelical basis of Protestant missions as they developed an appreciation for Chinese religions and culture. Lian Xi uses these stories as windows to understanding the development of a broad theological and cultural liberalism within American Protestant missions, which he examines in the second half of the book.
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White wings in bamboo land / Clara Groell.