1st Edition

Missionary Mobility and the Cold War Protestant Missions from China to Southeast Asia, 1920 –1989

By Anthony J. Miller Copyright 2027
232 Pages
by Routledge

Exploring how war, revolution, and communism in China irrevocably altered Protestant Christianity and the mobility of missionaries in the twentieth century, this book focuses on the China Inland Mission (CIM), later known as the Overseas Missionary Fellowship (OMF), once the largest Protestant missionary force in the world, and analyses how missionary mobility produced and disseminated ideas... Read more

Introduction: Race, Rights, and Religion: Protestant Missionary Mobility after the Opium Wars and Chinese Exclusion Acts  1. Pioneer Evangelism in Republican China: 1920-1937  2. Exiles and Refugees: Missionary Mobility in the Asia-Pacific War, 1937-1945  3. Captivity and Exodus: Mao’s Revolution, the Three-Self Patriotic Movement, and the Korean War, 1949-1969  4. Pioneers in the New Fields: Missionary Mobility and the Malayan Emergency, Vietnam War, and Cultural Revolution, 1951-1969  5. Going Home Again: Sino-American Rapprochement, Tourism, and the House-Churches, 1972-1989  Conclusion: Protestant Missions, Chinese Christianity, and Xi Jinping in the 21st Century

Biography

Anthony J. Miller is currently Associate Professor of History at Hanover College where he teaches courses in the fields of World and East Asian History. Prior to coming to Hanover, he was previously employed at Miami University, the University of Colorado Denver’s International College Beijing, and the University of Maryland University College’s Asia Program in Japan. A historian of the Cold War, his other publications exploring the ties in trade, diplomacy, religion, and culture between the US and Midwest and China include a chapter in American Chinese Restaurants: Society, Culture, and Consumption and articles in the journals of Annals of Iowa, Chinese America: History and Perspective, and The Diplomat. He is a regular participant at the annual Midwest History Conference, the Yale-Edinburgh Group for the study of World Christianity and Missions, and the China Christianity Studies group at the Association for Asian Studies.