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The Cross and the Dragon or Light in the Broad East.
Henry, Rev.
B.
C.
New York: Anson D.
F.
Randolph & Company, 1885.
First edition.
Introductory note by Joseph Cook.
The author was a missionary for 10 years in Canton.
Contents includes descriptions of Canton and life there, travel in the region, village life, the people, anti-foreign feelings, gambling and opium, religion (Confucianism, Tao, Buddhism, ancestor worship), folklore, charms, spirits and amulets, history of missions in Canton, present day missions, foreigners, tactics of missionaries, work for women, work for orphans and outcasts, life in Canton and life and mission work in the Interior.
Illustrated including a frontispiece showing a pastor and elders.
Hardcover with attractive gilt titles and designs on the front cover, and gilt titles on the spine, 483 pages.
Very good condition, corners worn, former owner's name on endpaper.
Tightly bound.
Rev.
Benjamin Couch (B.
C.
) Henry (1850-1901) was a prominent American Presbyterian missionary and explorer who worked in southern China, arriving in Canton in 1873.
He spent his career documenting Chinese life and culture in the Pearl River Delta, Hong Kong and Hainan Island.
He was president of the Lingnan Presbyterian University for two years.
he returned to the U.
S.
in 1895 and (oddly and sadly) he is listed as a patient in the New Jersey State Hospital for the Insane at Morris Plains by around 1900.
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