Glances at China by Rev. Gilbert Reid
Glances at China is a profusely illustrated overview of China and its people, clearly written with Christian missionary activity there in mind. My thanks to to Redcliffe College for providing me with a copy of this book to scan. This title is in the public domain.
Gilbert Reid [1857-1927], Glances at China. London: The Religious Tract Society, [1892]. Hbk. pp.191. [This material is in the Public Domain]
Contents
- The First Step at China
- Life in a Chinese Treaty-Port
- The Food Eaten in Cathay
- The Chinese New Year’s Day
- The Chinese Feast of Lanterns
- The Story of a Chinese Teacher
- A Christian Wedding With Chinese Appendages
- A Visit to the City of Ningpo
- Travelling in China
- The Romance of a Chinese Inn
- The Salams and Ceremony of Itineration in China
- Chinese Christians Among the Mountains
- An Amateur Itineration in China
- The Religions of China
- Three Important Chinese Dynasties
- A Visit to the Great Wall of China
- The Imperial City of Peking
- From Treaty-Port to Provincial Captial
- Life in the Interior of China
- The Missionary in Chinese Costume
- First Experience With Chinese Mandarins
- Near Death’s Door in a Heathen Land
- Missionary Work Amid the Memories of China’s Sages
- A Missionary’s First Visitt to a Chinese Governor
- A Sacred Mountain in China
- First Attempt at Translation in China
- A Story of Riots
- Progressive China
- Mission Work in the Cities of China
- Chinese Attack on an American Missionary
- Death of Dr. Mackenzie
- A Peep into Chinese Politics
- The Telegraph in China
- Christianity the Great Need of China
- Mission Work in Cathay
Chapter 1: Peeps into China
China’s chief port, the city of Shanghai, consisting of the Chinese city proper, with a population of nearly 400,000, and the English and French ‘ concessions ‘ with 5000 foreigners and about 500,000 Chinese-Shanghai within the wall and Shanghai without the wall-has various kinds of Christian and missionary work. Different denominations of different countries here vie with each other, in the spirit of union, trying not only to break the rush of heathenism, but the brazen vices of the foreigners, many of whom ‘tarry but for a night.’ Of all this work, two samples may be given-one, at the time of visiting it, being the largest Sunday school in China, and the other the largest Mission Press in the world. [Continue reading]