Peter Parker and the Opening of China (Harvard Studies in American-East Asian Relations, 3)

The mission movement, carrier of Western ideas, techniques, attitudes, and institutions, was a major agent of nineteenth-century international change. Dr. Peter Parker, preacher, physician, and diplomat, played a unique part in this convergence between China and the West. Transforming missionary activity, Parker helped found the Medical Missionary Society in China; evangelized for years in his own special way among the Chinese; participated in a quixotic attempt to “open” Japan years before Commodore Perry; and served the United States first as a charge in the newly established American Legation, later as Commissioner to China. Preface Contents 1 The Rough Road to Commitment 2 Arrival in China and the Singapore Internship 3 A Hospital for Canton 4 A Parcel of Shipwrecked Japanese Sailors 5 The Institutionalization of Medical Missions 6 Opium and the Approach of War 7 Washington, Marriage, and London 8 The Caleb Cushing Interlude 9 Schism in the MMS and Severance from the ABC 10 Pioneer Physician, Teacher, and Surgeon 11 Chargé 12 Commissioner 13 Retirement and Epitaph Notes Works by Peter Parker Bibliography Index [by] Edward V. Gulick. Works By Peter Parker: P. [253]-256. Bibliography: P. [257]-270.