China chronicles from a lost time

"Chronicles from a lost time relates the work of the China missionaries sent by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions to the Shaowu prefecture of north Fujian, a remote mountainous region 200 miles long and 100 miles wide, with a population at the time of over a million. Presenting the journals and letters of individual missionaries--written during the final decades of the Manchu Empire (the Qing Dynasty) leading up to the War of Resistance (1937-1945)--this is a true documentary history of the life and work of the Protestant missionaries who opened their first station in the upper Min River region in 1874."--From back cover