Authors

Rolf Syrdal

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Early Life: family background; education; went to China under the auspices of the Lutheran United Mission, 1929.

China Experiences: Scandinavian interest in China missions; language training in Peking; lifestyle and evangelizing in and around Fancheng, Honan; description of various Chinese Christians living in Fancheng; military disturbances at Fancheng, early 1930s; the Bert Nelson affair; Communist activity in the Fancheng area; impressions of Chiang Kai-shek and Feng Yu-hsiang; anti-foreign sentiment in Sinyang; educational system at the mission school; response to gunboat policy; experience with revivalism of 1930s; impressions of ecumenism in China; memories of Peng Fu; response to a Lutheran college in China after WWII; Lutheran conceptions of the future of mission work in China after WWII; reasons for ordering evacuation of Lutheran missions from China as director of world missions for the Evangelical Lutheran Church, 1948; lessons learned from missionary involvement in China.

Publication Date

1976

Publisher

Midwest China Center

City

Saint Paul

Keywords

Lutheran United Mission, China missions, Peking, evangelizing, Fancheng, Honan, Chinese, Christians, Bert Nelson, Communist, Chiang Kai-shek, Feng Yu-hsiang, anti-foreign, Sinyang, mission school, gunboat policy, revivalism, ecumenism, Peng Fu, WWII, evacuation, Evangelical Lutheran Church, missionary

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