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Cover illustration: Charles Wilson, Echoes of Service missionary, and his assistant, baptising in Xiushui, Jiangxi province, c. 1932–33, EOS/4/3/2, Echoes of Service Papers, Christian Brethren Archive, The University of Manchester Library. Courtesy of Echoes of Service Mission Organisation and The University of Manchester.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Woodbridge, David, author.
Title: Missionary primitivism and Chinese modernity : the brethren in twentieth-century China / by David Woodbridge.
Description: Boston : Brill, 2019. | Series: Studies in Christian mission, ISSN 0924-9389 ; Volume 54 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018041138 (print) | LCCN 2018046309 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004376106 (E-book) | ISBN 9789004336759 (hardback : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Missions—China. | Open Brethren—Missions—China. | Plymouth Brethren—Missions—China. | Primitivism—Religious aspects—Christianity. | China—Church history. | Christianity—Influence.
Classification: LCC BV3415.2 (ebook) | LCC BV3415.2 .W66 2019 (print) | DDC 266/.990951—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018041138
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ISSN 0924-9389
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