Title: Old Highways in China (Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration in Asia)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 2010
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1108015182
ISBN 13: 9781108015189
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New

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In 1873, the Christian missionary Isabelle Williamson set out from Chefoo (Yantai),China, to spread the gospel to Chinese women. Her four separate journeys along the ancient roads of Shandong Province and Beijing are recorded in Old Highways in China (1884), a chronicle of the everyday lives of the women to whom she preached. 'My interest was chiefly in the women', Williamson explains, 'and I looked at all through a woman's eyes'. Reserving her missionary work for another publication, Williamson devotes this keenly observed book to the details of life in the villages she visited - the work, play, rituals, and stories of women and girls. It also describes Williamson's own remarkable travels, set against the stunning natural backdrop of northern China. An important witness to women's missionary work in China, her book is also testament to the intelligent eye of its author as she seeks to portray 'China's daughters'.

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Old Highways in China (1884) records the Christian missionary Isabelle Williamson's travels through Shandong Province and Beijing, preaching the gospel to Chinese women. A fascinating and understudied figure in nineteenth-century women's writing, Williamson seeks to capture in this book the everyday work, play, rituals and stories of 'China's daughters'.

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