Massacre in Shansi

by Brandt, Nat

• ISBN13: 9780815602828
• ISBN10: 0815602820
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-06-01
• Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr

Summary

With his latest book, prize-winning, popular historian Nat Brandt turns his eye to a little-known group of Midwest missionaries who gave their lives for their religious beliefs. Brandt's careful research uncovers the life, attitudes, and Christianity of the Oberlin College missionaries from the late 1880s leading up to their deaths in 1900 during the Boxer Rebellion in China.

Author Biography

Nat Brandt is a veteran journalist who began his career with CBS News as a senior newswriter, then turned to print journalism. He was a reporter on several newspapers in Connecticut and New Jersey before joining The New York Times as an editor, working primarily on the National News Desk. Subsequently, he was Managing Editor of American Heritage magazine and Editor-in-Chief of Publishers Weekly. He is a past president of the nation's oldest journalists' organization, Society of the Silurians.

Table of Contents

Illustrations	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
A Note on Transliteration	p. xix
Cast of Characters	p. xxi
Prologue	p. 1
The Newlyweds	p. 3
Shansi	p. 13
The Great Famine	p. 20
The Oberlin Band: The Founding Members	p. 24
"Little America"	p. 39
Realities	p. 50
School Days	p. 62
"Paradise Cottage"	p. 75
The Associate Missionaries	p. 81
Friendships	p. 92
Triumphs and Adversities	p. 113
The Volcano	p. 130
The Boxers	p. 141
Colleagues	p. 158
Under Siege	p. 178
Paotingfu: The First Losses	p. 203
The Flight from Shou Yang	p. 214
Tai Yuan: The Courtyard of Slaughter	p. 223
Taiku: Cornered	p. 234
Fenchow-fu: Escape to Tragedy	p. 257
Aftermath	p. 269
Epilogue	p. 288
Appendix	p. 293
Notes	p. 297
Bibliography	p. 321
Index	p. 327
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