Volume 31, Number 14 · September 27, 1984
Our Mission in China
By Jonathan D. Spence
The Making of a Special Relationship: The United States and China to 1914
by Michael H. Hunt
Columbia University Press, 416 pp., $27.50
The Missionary Mind and American East Asia Policy, 1911–1915
by James Reed
Harvard University Press, 258 pp., $20.00
The Gospel of Gentility: American Women Missionaries in Turn-of-the-Century China
by Jane Hunter
Yale University Press, 318 pp., $25.00
This is the bicentennial year for contacts between the United States and China, since it was in 1784 that the merchant ship Empress of China sailed to Canton from New York. It was an auspicious beginning, at least for the American backers of the voyage; the trip netted them 30 percent profit in their investment.
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