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Earthen Vessels and Transcendent Power: American Presbyterians in China, 1837-1952 (review)

Earthen Vessels and Transcendent Power: American Presbyterians in China, 1837-1952 (review) Earthen Vessels and Transcendent Power: American Presbyterians in China, 1837-1952 (review) Lawrence Kessler China Review International, Volume 6, Number 1, Spring 1999, pp. 59-62 (Review) Published by University of Hawai'i Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cri.1999.0084 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/396892/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 01:17 GMT from JHU Libraries Reviews 59 G. Thompson Brown. Earthen Vessels and Transcendent Power: American Presbyterians in China, 1837-1952. American Society of Missiology Series, no. 25. Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1997. xxiii, 428 pp. Hardcover, isbn 1-57075-150-1. Thompson Brown's knowledge of the American Presbyterian missionary move- ment in East Asia is extensive and intimate. He was born in China, where his par- ents' missionary service spanned the tumultuous half-century from the old em- pire through the Nationalist period and on up to the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949. As a young boy in China, Brown experienced the nationalist revolution of the 1920s and 1930s. His own missionary career was in Korea, and he later served as director of the International Mission Program of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and as China Consultant to the Church during the 1980s. Brown has previously drawn on these experiences to write articles http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png China Review International University of Hawai'I Press

Earthen Vessels and Transcendent Power: American Presbyterians in China, 1837-1952 (review)

Kessler, Lawrence D.
China Review International , Volume 6 (1) – Mar 30, 2011
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Earthen Vessels and Transcendent Power: American Presbyterians in China, 1837-1952 (review) Lawrence Kessler China Review International, Volume 6, Number 1, Spring 1999, pp. 59-62 (Review) Published by University of Hawai'i Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cri.1999.0084 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/396892/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 01:17 GMT from JHU Libraries Reviews 59 G. Thompson Brown. Earthen Vessels and Transcendent Power: American Presbyterians in China, 1837-1952. American Society of Missiology Series, no. 25. Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1997. xxiii, 428 pp. Hardcover, isbn 1-57075-150-1. Thompson Brown's knowledge of the American Presbyterian missionary move- ment in East Asia is extensive and intimate. He was born in China, where his par- ents' missionary service spanned the tumultuous half-century from the old em- pire through the Nationalist period and on up to the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949. As a young boy in China, Brown experienced the nationalist revolution of the 1920s and 1930s. His own missionary career was in Korea, and he later served as director of the International Mission Program of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and as China Consultant to the Church during the 1980s. Brown has previously drawn on these experiences to write articles

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