CRITICISM

Ashton, Susanna. “Compound Walls: Eva Jane Price's Letters from a Chinese Mission, 1890-1900.” Frontiers 17, no. 3 (1996): 80-94.

Discusses the physical and cultural boundaries created by missionaries in China and the ways in which those boundaries were breached, intentionally and otherwise.

Barnett, Suzanne Wilson, and John King Fairbank, eds. Christianity in China: Early Protestant Missionary Writings. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985, 237 p.

Collected essays on individual missionaries and specific projects in China.

Erlank, Natasha. “Jane & John Philip: Partnership, Usefulness & Sexuality in the Service of God.” In The London Missionary Society in Southern Africa, 1799-1999: Historical Essays in Celebration of the Bicentenary of the LMS in Southern Africa, edited by John de Gruchy, pp. 82-98. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2000.

Examines the role of the missionary wife in theory and practice and suggests a dissonance between Philip's public statements and his private life.

Inness, Sherrie A. “‘Repulsive as the Multitudes by Whom I Am Surrounded’: Constructing the Contact Zone in the Writings of Mount Holyoke Missionaries, 1830-1890.” Women's Studies 23 (1994): 365-84.

Analyzes the discourses of femininity and colonialism in the writings of women missionaries, indicating that opportunities offered by missionary work were an important part of its appeal to women.

McAllister, Susan Fleming. “Cross-Cultural Dress in Victorian British Missionary Narratives: Dressing for Eternity.” In Christian Encounters with the Other, edited by John C. Hawley, pp. 122-34. New York: New York University Press, 1998.

Argues that British missionaries to China did not perpetuate racist stereotypes but instead altered British notions of Chinese culture.

Thorne, Susan. “Pride and Prejudice: The Social Relations of Missionary Philanthropy, 1867-1914.” In Congregational Missions and the Making of an Imperial Culture in Nineteenth-Century England, pp. 124-54. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999.

Analyses the manner in which foreign missionary campaigns drew working-class English into the broader project of imperialism, focusing on the London Missionary Society.

Twells, Alison. “‘A State of Infancy’: West Africa and British Missionaries in the 1820s.” Wasafiri 23 (1996): 19-24.

Asserts that while missionary rhetoric undermined earlier claims of white racial superiority, its paternalism reinforced the necessity of white dominance over “child-like” Africans.

Yoshiko, Enomoto. “A Woman Missionary's Vision: Conflict and Harmony Between Two Cultures.” In Force of Vision, II: Visions of History, Visions of the Other, edited by Gerald Gillespie and Margaret Higonnet, pp. 348-56. Tokyo: International Comparative Literature Association, 1995.

Relates the story of Mary E. Kidder, among the earliest unmarried women missionaries sent to Japan, and discusses her efforts toward women's education.