"Christopher Daily's refreshingly original work turns Morrison's role around to analyse it as the outcome of something hitherto ignored the troubled search by British Dissenters for an effective missionary strategy and an appropriate missionary training.

"This book is one which would be enjoyable to the general reader of missions and religious history, and Chinese hsitory, but also is an important study for mission scholarship, not only about Morrison and Milne, but as a missiological pattern that continu

"Significant contribution to mission studies a new analytic focus on the relationships and influences that drove the nineteenth-century century Protestant missionary movement." --Naomi Thurston, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Lampeter

"Through a brilliant analysis of hitherto unexplored archival material, Christopher Daily offers important new insights into Robert Morrison's missionary career at the gates of the Chinese Empire. This eminently readable book demonstrates with great clari

"This book offers us a critical narrative of Robert Morrison's work in China and presents us with a different perspective on what Robert Morrison and William Milne did there." --Martha Stockment in Christianity in China

Christopher A. Daily is a faculty member at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, and a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. He has held research fellowships from the East-West Center, University of Hawai'i and the British Academy.