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Book Review: Through the Valley of the Shadow: Australian Women in War-torn China

Book Review: Through the Valley of the Shadow: Australian Women in War-torn China sThis book is one of a very useful recent series entitled Studies in Chinese Christianity. The latest volume in this series, by Wayne ten Harmsel, The Registered Church in China (2021) is a valuable account of the Protestant Three-Self Movement, Christian Church of China, in post-1949 Communist China. The book by Linda and Robert Banks, under review here, explores an aspect of Protestant Christianity, before 1949, from the late Qing and Republican eras up to 1949. The authors rightly describe this period as characterized by extreme disruption and violence: anti-Qing rebellions, bandits, war-lords, disputes between Nationalists and Communists, and, finally, the Japanese invasion. The title ‘Australian women’ is slightly misleading – the book is not a general survey of Australian women in China in this period, let alone female missionaries, but an account of seven individuals: all Anglican, single, and members of the Australian Church Missionary Society (CMS). Their stories are certainly worth hearing.sThe first two missionaries, Eleanor and Elizabeth Saunders, tragically had only a brief time in China. Inspired by the visit to Australia in 1889 of Hudson Taylor, the founder of the China Inland Mission, the sisters applied to CMS and embarked for China in 1893, aged http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Anglican Studies Cambridge University Press

Book Review: Through the Valley of the Shadow: Australian Women in War-torn China

Journal of Anglican Studies , Volume 21 (1): 3 – May 1, 2023
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Cambridge University Press
Copyright
© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press
ISSN
1740-3553
eISSN
1745-5278
DOI
10.1017/S1740355321000243
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Abstract

sThis book is one of a very useful recent series entitled Studies in Chinese Christianity. The latest volume in this series, by Wayne ten Harmsel, The Registered Church in China (2021) is a valuable account of the Protestant Three-Self Movement, Christian Church of China, in post-1949 Communist China. The book by Linda and Robert Banks, under review here, explores an aspect of Protestant Christianity, before 1949, from the late Qing and Republican eras up to 1949. The authors rightly describe this period as characterized by extreme disruption and violence: anti-Qing rebellions, bandits, war-lords, disputes between Nationalists and Communists, and, finally, the Japanese invasion. The title ‘Australian women’ is slightly misleading – the book is not a general survey of Australian women in China in this period, let alone female missionaries, but an account of seven individuals: all Anglican, single, and members of the Australian Church Missionary Society (CMS). Their stories are certainly worth hearing.sThe first two missionaries, Eleanor and Elizabeth Saunders, tragically had only a brief time in China. Inspired by the visit to Australia in 1889 of Hudson Taylor, the founder of the China Inland Mission, the sisters applied to CMS and embarked for China in 1893, aged

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Journal of Anglican StudiesCambridge University Press

Published: May 1, 2023

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