Description: Contains short biographies of over 1000 Christian missionaries, mainly from Europe and the USA, who served in China before 1955 in an alphabetized reference style.
Brief description: Leopold Leeb is professor in the School of Liberal Arts at Renmin University of China.
Review Quotes:
"In this landmark work, Leopold Leeb has provided the most comprehensive biographical dictionary of China missionaries to date. Based on exhaustive resources in several languages, this meticulous work introduces the reader to virtually every imaginable missionary who served in China. This book is a treasure trove for anyone interested in Christianity in Asia, and scholars will have it at their fingertips for decades to come." --Anthony E. Clark, professor of history, Whitworth University
"The result of decades of research and compilation, Missionaries to China: A Historical Dictionary provides reliable biographical and bibliographical information on nearly 1,400 missionaries in the history of China. The dictionary breaks new ground by including the biographies of many women missionaries-long overlooked by scholars-and by bringing together missionaries from different congregations and denominations, some of whom are not very well known. Without doubt, the dictionary of Leopold Leeb will be an indispensable reference work in the history of Christianity in China." --Thierry Meynard, professor of philosophy, Sun Yat-sen University