Download or read book The Home Base of American China Missions, 1880-1920 written by Valentin H. Rabe and published by Harvard Univ Asia Center. This book was released on 1978 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the closing decades of the nineteenth century, approximately two dozen Protestant mission societies expanded their operations with unprecedented urgency and efficiency. Rabe focuses on the recruitment of personnel, fundraising, administration, promotional propaganda, and other logistical problems faced by the agencies in the United States.