A
series of essays by Rev. Carl Smith, to mark the 25th Anniversary of
the Society.
Contents include:
Part I: Mission Schools and their Products: A New Type of China Coast
Middleman; (1) The Morrison Education Society and the Moulding of its
Students; (2) The Formative Years of the Tong Brothers, Pioneers in
the Modernization of China's Commerce and Industry; (3) Translators,
Compradores, and Government Advisers; (4) Friends and Relatives of Taiping
Leaders; (5) Sun Yat-sen's Baptism and Some Christian Connections.
Part II: The Church, Middlemen, and the HK Setting; (6) The Emergence
of a Chinese Elite in HK; (7) The English-educated Chinese Elite in
c19 HK; (8) The HK Church and c19 Colonial Attitudes; (9) The HK Situation
as it Influenced the Protestant Church; (10) The Early HK Church and
Traditional Chinese Ideas, with Epilogue and Introduction.
(1985, jointly published by the RAS HK Branch with Oxford University
Press, HK)