Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- DRY STATEMENTS
- PRELUDE: FIRST IMPRESSIONS
- CHAPTER I ON THE UPPER YANGTSE
- CHAPTER II A LAND JOURNEY
- CHAPTER III LIFE IN A CHINESE CITY
- CHAPTER IV HINDRANCES AND ANNOYANCES
- CHAPTER V CURRENT COIN IN CHINA
- CHAPTER VI FOOTBINDING
- CHAPTER VII ANTI-FOOTBINDING
- CHAPTER VIII THE POSITION OF WOMEN
- CHAPTER IX BIRTHS, DEATHS, AND MARRIAGES
- CHAPTER X CHINESE MORALS
- CHAPTER XI SUPERSTITIONS
- CHAPTER XII OUR MISSIONARIES
- CHAPTER XIII UP-COUNTRY SHOPPING AND UP-COUNTRY WAYS
- CHAPTER XIV SOLDIERS
- CHAPTER XV CHINESE STUDENTS
- CHAPTER XVI A FATHER'S ADVICE TO HIS SON
- CHAPTER XVII BUDDHIST MONASTERIES
- CHAPTER XVIII A CHINESE ORDINATION
- CHAPTER XIX THE SACRED MOUNTAIN OF OMI
- CHAPTER XX CHINESE SENTIMENT
- CHAPTER XXI A SUMMER TRIP TO CHINESE TIBET
- CHAPTER XXII ARTS AND INDUSTRIES
- CHAPTER XXIII A LITTLE PEKING PUG
- PRELUDE: PART I.—GETTING TO PEKING and PART II.—THE SIGHTS OF PEKING
- CHAPTER I THE CHINESE EMPEROR'S MAGNIFICENCE
- CHAPTER II THE EMPRESS, THE EMPEROR, AND THE AUDIENCE
- CHAPTER III SOLIDARITY, CO-OPERATION, AND IMPERIAL FEDERATION
- CHAPTER IV BEGINNINGS OF REFORM
- CHAPTER V THE COUP D'ÉTAT
CHAPTER XII - OUR MISSIONARIES
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- DRY STATEMENTS
- PRELUDE: FIRST IMPRESSIONS
- CHAPTER I ON THE UPPER YANGTSE
- CHAPTER II A LAND JOURNEY
- CHAPTER III LIFE IN A CHINESE CITY
- CHAPTER IV HINDRANCES AND ANNOYANCES
- CHAPTER V CURRENT COIN IN CHINA
- CHAPTER VI FOOTBINDING
- CHAPTER VII ANTI-FOOTBINDING
- CHAPTER VIII THE POSITION OF WOMEN
- CHAPTER IX BIRTHS, DEATHS, AND MARRIAGES
- CHAPTER X CHINESE MORALS
- CHAPTER XI SUPERSTITIONS
- CHAPTER XII OUR MISSIONARIES
- CHAPTER XIII UP-COUNTRY SHOPPING AND UP-COUNTRY WAYS
- CHAPTER XIV SOLDIERS
- CHAPTER XV CHINESE STUDENTS
- CHAPTER XVI A FATHER'S ADVICE TO HIS SON
- CHAPTER XVII BUDDHIST MONASTERIES
- CHAPTER XVIII A CHINESE ORDINATION
- CHAPTER XIX THE SACRED MOUNTAIN OF OMI
- CHAPTER XX CHINESE SENTIMENT
- CHAPTER XXI A SUMMER TRIP TO CHINESE TIBET
- CHAPTER XXII ARTS AND INDUSTRIES
- CHAPTER XXIII A LITTLE PEKING PUG
- PRELUDE: PART I.—GETTING TO PEKING and PART II.—THE SIGHTS OF PEKING
- CHAPTER I THE CHINESE EMPEROR'S MAGNIFICENCE
- CHAPTER II THE EMPRESS, THE EMPEROR, AND THE AUDIENCE
- CHAPTER III SOLIDARITY, CO-OPERATION, AND IMPERIAL FEDERATION
- CHAPTER IV BEGINNINGS OF REFORM
- CHAPTER V THE COUP D'ÉTAT
Summary
People can hardly fairly discuss the question of missionaries without deciding definitely first of all whether they wish the Chinese to become Christians or not. And as I do not know what may be the views of those who read this book, I think I had better here cite impressions as to the prejudice against them, written after I had only spent a few years in the East; for the prejudice against missionaries is really one of the most amusing things in China.
“They all hang about Chefoo. That is the sort of place that suits them. A nice comfortable house, and nothing to do! Just about suit me too! I'd like to find a merchant's clerk who did as little as one of these self-devoted men, who have given up everything,” is a little speech I heard one man make to three others one day, apparently expressing the sentiments and experience of all. Yet take Chefoo, the very place thus pointed out, and what do you find there? There is not a Shanghai man who knows him who does not say: “Oh, Dr. Nevius! Oh! but he's quite an exceptional man. He does more good than all the others put together, I believe. You don't fancy other missionaries are like him?”
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- Intimate ChinaThe Chinese as I Have Seen Them, pp. 230 - 252Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1899