Alabama Missionaries in the Middle Kingdom, 1850–1950
by
Wayne Flynt, Gerald W. Berkley-Coats
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Beginning early in the 19th century, the American missionary movement made slow headway in China. Alabamians became part of that small beachhead. After 1900 both the money and personnel rapidly expanded, peaking in the early 1920s. By the 1930s many American denominations became confused and divided...