China Journal: An American Missionary Family During the Boxer Rebellion - Hardcover

Price, Eva Jane

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684189518 ISBN 13: 9780684189512

Publisher: Scribner Book Company, 1989

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From Publishers Weekly:

Although the dragon gates have opened wide in the past decade, in 1900 China tried to shut out all things foreign amidst the hysteria of the Boxer Rebellion. This intimate account of rural missionary life in the 10 years that preceded the Rebellion, culled from Price's letters home, touchingly counterpoints her attempts to preserve American-style domesticity with observations of an altogether foreign land that could neither understand her nor be understood by her. The Price family lived in Shanxi province from November 1889 until they were murdered in August 1900. They tried to impose a wholly alien religion on an ancient culture; they were destined to fail. The volume could have benefited from more pruning, but its record of missionary and Chinese life, and its tale of ordinary mortals traveling steadily toward their doom, makes compelling reading.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal:

This remarkable cache of letters, journals, and illustrations records the lives of a family of American missionaries in China a century ago. Charles and Eva Price, with their children, went to China in 1889 and made it their home until 1900 when they were murdered by the Chinese soldiers who were supposed to be protecting them from the Boxers, an anti-Christian, anti-foreign sect. The letters, especially Eva's, present a fascinating account of life in China among American missionaries. Unfortunately, the materials are poorly edited. For example, no attempt has been made to find and use available Chinese documentation about the Price's murder. The addition of such material would have made this more interesting reading.
- David D. Buck, Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0684189518
• ISBN 13: 9780684189512
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 289