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With vivid detail, this book tells the story of people and institutions caught up in the encounter between Western social gospel Christianity and a China in the throes of war and revolution in the first half of the 20th century...This book will be of value not only to historians, but to social scientists and theologians - all who look for meaning in the fraught history of Sino-Western relations. * Richard Madsen, UC San Diego * This radical, opinionated, and immensely energetic account of early twentieth century American missionaries and Chinese Christians from the urban elite is a strongly argued defense of their contributions to Chinese society and the Chinese nation state. The subject matter ranges from YMCA campaigns against child labor to the dramatic story of an American woman missionary struggling to rescue young women during the Rape of Nanjing. It will compel many readers to rethink their assumptions. * Henrietta Harrison, University of Oxford * Thomas Reilly brilliantly demonstrates how Chinese leaders of the YMCA and the Protestant elite argued the case for national salvation, citizenship, and resistance against Japanese aggression...Saving the Nation has great appeal and significance for scholars and students of Chinese Christianity and modern Chinese history. * Alexander Chow, author of Chinese Public Theology: Generational Shifts and Confucian Imagination in Chinese Christianity *

""Thomas Reilly brilliantly demonstrates how Chinese leaders of the YMCA and the Protestant elite argued the case for national salvation, citizenship, and resistance against Japanese aggression...Saving the Nation has great appeal and significance for scholars and students of Chinese Christianity and modern Chinese history."" -- Alexander Chow, author of Chinese Public Theology: Generational Shifts and Confucian Imagination in Chinese Christianity ""This radical, opinionated, and immensely energetic account of early twentieth century American missionaries and Chinese Christians from the urban elite is a strongly argued defense of their contributions to Chinese society and the Chinese nation state. The subject matter ranges from YMCA campaigns against child labor to the dramatic story of an American woman missionary struggling to rescue young women during the Rape of Nanjing. It will compel many readers to rethink their assumptions."" -- Henrietta Harrison, University of Oxford ""With vivid detail, this book tells the story of people and institutions caught up in the encounter between Western social gospel Christianity and a China in the throes of war and revolution in the first half of the 20th century...This book will be of value not only to historians, but to social scientists and theologians - all who look for meaning in the fraught history of Sino-Western relations."" -- Richard Madsen, UC San Diego

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Thomas H. Reilly is Professor of Chinese History at Pepperdine University.

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