The missionary enterprise in China and America / edited and with an introduction by John K. Fairbank.

Originally published: Harvard College, 1974. (Harvard studies in American-East Asian relations ; v. 6).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : The many faces of Protestant missions in China and the United States / John K. Fairbank -- Near East notes and Far East queries / James A. Field, Jr. -- Evangelical logistics : mission support and resources to 1920 / Valentin H. Rabe -- The student volunteer movement and its role in China missions, 1886-1920 / Clifton J. Phillips -- Modernism and missions : the liberal search for an exportable Christianity, 1875-1935 / William R. Hutchison -- The theology of American missionaries in China, 1900-1950 / M. Searle Bates -- Christianity in the Chinese idiom : Young J. Allen and the early Chiao-hui hsin-pao, 1868-1870 / Adrian A. Bennett and Kwang-Ching Liu -- Littoral and Hinterland in nineteenth century China : the "Christian" reformers / Paul A. Cohen -- Christianity and nationalism : the career of Wu Le-ch'uan at Yenching University / Philip West -- Ends and means : missionary justification of force in nineteenth century China / Stuart Creighton Miller -- Why they stayed : American church politics and Chinese nationalism in the twenties / Shirley Stone Garrett -- The missionary response to the nationalist revolution / Paul A. Varg -- The missionary enterprise and theories of imperialism / Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.