{"id":448,"date":"2012-10-02T09:00:41","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T08:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newcollegelibrarian.wordpress.com\/?p=448"},"modified":"2012-10-02T09:00:41","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T08:00:41","slug":"christianity-east-and-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/2012\/10\/02\/christianity-east-and-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Christianity in the Far East?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2012\/09\/easternmissionaries.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-521\" title=\"easternmissionaries\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2012\/09\/easternmissionaries.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2012\/09\/easternmissionaries.jpg 800w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2012\/09\/easternmissionaries-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Centre for the Study of World Christianity at the School of Divinity hosts its Research Seminar today, and the speaker is Andrew Kaiser, on:<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; Lessons for Today from China\u2019s Past:\u00a0Timothy Richard\u2019s Innovations in Mission.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>New College Library&#8217;s stacks bear witness to the activity of nineteenth and twentieth century missons in China and East Asia.\u00a0 I picked up these three volumes which all have attractive publishers bindings.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Cross and the Dragon, or, Light in the Broad East<\/em> by\u00a0 Rev B.C. Henry (London, Partridge &amp; Co, 1885) announces the author as \u201cTen years a missionary in Canton\u201d. It is beautifully illustrated and has endpapers\u00a0printed in a pattern of Chinese fans.\u00a0 The introduction proclaims &#8220;There is no new and sacred sight open to the eyes of present generations better worth study than the rising of the unobscured orb of Christianity in the Far East &#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>East of the Barrier, or, Side lights on the Manchuria Mission<\/em> (Oliphant, Andrewson and Ferrier, Edinburgh &amp; London , 1902), was written by J. Miller Graham, a missionary of the United Free Church of Scotland, Moukden, Manchuria.<\/p>\n<p><em>Two Lady Missionaries in Tibet<\/em> by Isabel S. Robson (\u00a0London: S.W. Partridge &amp; Co 1910) is the story of\u00a0 two intrepid women missionaries &#8211; Miss Annie R Taylor and Dr Susie Carson Moyes.<\/p>\n<table id=\"resulttable\" width=\"663\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre for the Study of World Christianity at the School of Divinity hosts its Research Seminar today, and the speaker is Andrew Kaiser, on: &#8221; Lessons for Today from China\u2019s Past:\u00a0Timothy Richard\u2019s Innovations in Mission.&#8221; New College Library&#8217;s stacks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/2012\/10\/02\/christianity-east-and-west\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[30,39,42,57,124,131,135,183,185,187,194],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42UaT-7e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}