CHRISTIANITY IN ASIA.

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Kuan-Hua: Tsan-Mei Shi ("Hymns in Romanized Official Mandarin Chinese"). First edition of this scarce Protestant missionary imprint, of which we have traced only one other copy, issued for the use of Westerners proselytizing in Yangzhou and across Jiangsu province. The text includes a corresponding English-language index of first lines.This copy was owned by Sarah Fanny Rossier (later Clarke, d.1883), a missionary with the China Inland Mission from the mid-1870s, and has her signature on the title page. She was the organization's first Swiss member. In 1880, she relocated to Guizhou, becoming the first Western woman to live in the province.Copies were issued bound in wrappers or, in the case of the other known example (our stock number 187497), in cloth.

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