Christianity -- China

Scope and Contents This series contains correspondence from various women missionary fields in Jiangxi province including Jingdezhen (Kintehcheng, 景德鎮), Ruichang (Jui Chang, 瑞昌), Xiaochikou (Siao Chih Keo, 小池口) , Tai Hu (or Lake Tai, 太湖), and Raozhou (Jao Chou, 饒州). Some of the letters were signed by Mabel A. Woodruff or Edith Fredericks, who were appointed by Women's Foreign Missionary Society of Methodist Episcopal Church. Alongside the letters, there are decorative materials, such as Bible scriptures and...

Scope and Contents The collection mainly consists of research materials collected by Professor Gerald Berkley and Professor Wayne Flynt, and the drafts and proofs of their book entitled Taking Christianity to China: Alabama Missionaries in the Middle Kingdom, 1850-1950. Prof. Berkley started to collect the materials when he first had the idea in the early 1980s of writing a book on Alabama missionaries who served in China. Before he went to pursue a law degree in 1986, Prof. Berkley turned them...