Maryknoll in China : A History, 1918-1955. [Maryknoll in Context: The Coming of Age of American Foreign Missions, Maryknoll in the Chinese Environment; Evangelization of the Non-Christians: The Direct Apostolate, Corporal Works of Mercy; etc]
by Wiest, Jean-Paul. [jacket design, Karl Steinbrenner; blurbs, Jeffrey C. Kinkley, Jessie G. Lutz, John Tracy Ellis, Edward J. Malatesta, William J. McCormack, John Toland, Gerald H. Anderson, P. Richard Bohr; association copy:Thomas V. Kiernan]
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Armonk, N.Y. ; London : M.E. Sharpe, 1988., 1988. Good. [1st ed.] ; xxiii, 591 pp. : illustrated ; 24 cm. ; ISBN: 0873324188 ; LCCN: 87-32068 ; OCLC: 17108585 ; LC: BV3415.2; Dewey: 266/.251 ; beige cloth with red lettering, in nicked and torn dustjacket ; front signature badly shaken, starting ; signature of Fr. Thomas V. Kiernan ["Fr. Tom"] on front ep ; letter of presentation from the order to Fr. Kiernan laid-in ; Fr. Kiernan joined Maryknoll in China in 1921 after having become inspired by reading of its missionary work through the publication , The Field Afar, and stayed for many years ; an amazing collection of details concerning Catholic missionary work in China from 1911-1955, including name lists of all the participants, and text augmented from 10,000 hours of collected transcribed oral histories from 200 former missionaries ; bibliographies, chronologies and supplemental material make this a comprehensive study, enhanced by numerous photographs and maps ; sections concerning Fr. Kiernan are marked in the margins by stars ; G/FAIR
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- Maryknoll in China : A History, 1918-1955. [Maryknoll in Context: The Coming of Age of American Foreign Missions, Maryknoll in the Chinese Environment; Evangelization of the Non-Christians: The Direct Apostolate, Corporal Works of Mercy; etc]
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- Wiest, Jean-Paul. [jacket design, Karl Steinbrenner; blurbs, Jeffrey C. Kinkley, Jessie G. Lutz, John Tracy Ellis, Edward J. Malatesta, William J. McCormack, John Toland, Gerald H. Anderson, P. Richard Bohr; association copy:Thomas V. Kiernan]
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- Armonk, N.Y. ; London : M.E. Sharpe, 1988.
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- 1988
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- chinese american holy orders priests roman catholic maryknoll maryknollers fathers sisters nuns wuchow kaying toishan taishan lepers orphans shanghai church christianity missionaries japan wwii communists medicine guangdong guangxi kaying fushun kon
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