Old Highways in China

✍ Scribed by Isabelle Williamson

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 232
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In 1873, the Christian missionary Isabelle Williamson set out from Chefoo (Yantai),China, to spread the gospel to Chinese women. Her four separate journeys along the ancient roads of Shandong Province and Beijing are recorded in Old Highways in China (1884), a chronicle of the everyday lives of the women to whom she preached. 'My interest was chiefly in the women', Williamson explains, 'and I looked at all through a woman's eyes'. Reserving her missionary work for another publication, Williamson devotes this keenly observed book to the details of life in the villages she visited - the work, play, rituals, and stories of women and girls. It also describes Williamson's own remarkable travels, set against the stunning natural backdrop of northern China. An important witness to women's missionary work in China, her book is also testament to the intelligent eye of its author as she seeks to portray 'China's daughters'.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Frontmatter......Page 6
PREFACE......Page 10
Contents......Page 14
ILLUSTRATIONS......Page 20
CHAPTER I......Page 22
CHAPTER II......Page 28
CHAPTER III......Page 36
CHAPTER IV......Page 41
CHAPTER V......Page 46
CHAPTER VI......Page 53
CHAPTER VII......Page 58
CHAPTER VIII......Page 64
CHAPTER IX......Page 74
CHAPTER X......Page 79
CHAPTER XI......Page 87
CHAPTER XII......Page 94
CHAPTER XIII......Page 101
CHAPTER XIV......Page 106
CHAPTER XV......Page 116
CHAPTER XVI......Page 131
CHAPTER XVII......Page 137
CHAPTER XVIII......Page 156
CHAPTER XIX......Page 160
CHAPTER XX......Page 167
CHAPTER XXI......Page 177
CHAPTER XXII......Page 186
CHAPTER XXIII......Page 199
CHAPTER XXIV......Page 212
CHAPTER XXV......Page 223