Massacre in Shansi - Couverture rigide

Brandt, Nat

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0815602820 ISBN 13 : 9780815602828

Editeur : Syracuse University Press, 1994

Synopsis

Book by Brandt Nat

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The eighteen missionaries who traveled to Shansi were dedicated, pious, hard-working clerics. Ernest At water; the young minister Francis Ward Davis and his wife Lydia; Charles Wesley Price and his family; and Susan Rowena Bird; to name a few, were all spurred by their strong beliefs, but they were also quite ignorant of other countries and cultures. Often having to live in disease-ravaged area of China and under harsh conditions, they were repulsed by the native lifestyle and saw further need to change it. Brandt presents finely wrought portraits of these people, detailing the lives of both the missionaries and their converts, their experiences in the interior province of Shansi, and their struggle in trying to spread Christianity among people whose language they did not speak and whose traditions and customs they did not understand. Brandt's gripping narrative brings to light a penetrating and sincere study of the "Oberlin Band" of Pr

Biographie de l'auteur

Nat Brandt is a veteran journalist who began his career with CBS News as a senior newswriter, then turned to print journalism. He was a reporter on several newspapers in Connecticut and New Jersey before joining The New York Times as an editor, working primarily on the National News Desk. Subsequently, he was Man-aging Editor of American Heritage magazine and Editor-in-Chief of Publishers Weekly. He is a past president of the nation's oldest journalists' organization, the Society of the Silurians. A native of New York City, Brandt majored in history at the University of Rochester and was a member of the school's history honor society, the Morey Club. He has written many articles dealing with American history--among them, stories about Ander-sonville prison, Sergeant York, the Blizzard of '88 and the Pledge of Allegiance. He has been a freelance author since 1980, and has taught as an adjunct professor of journalism at the Graduate Schoo

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Syracuse University Press
• Date d'édition: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0815602820
• ISBN 13: 9780815602828
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 360