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Li Li. Mission in Suzhou: Sophie Lanneau and Wei Ling Girl's Academy, 1907–1950. (Asian Studies, number 2.) New Orleans: University Press of the South. 1999. Pp. xiv, 139.

The past decades have witnessed a renaissance in studies of the nineteenth and twentieth-century Christian mission involvement in China by both Chinese and North American scholars. Part of that corpus of research has focused on the phenomenon of American women missionaries. This volume by Li Li is an important addition to that corpus, both for the story that it tells and for the research upon which the narrative depends. This is one of rare books devoted to mission in China and published in North America that draws on Chinese archival sources, which have been generally unavailable to American and European scholars. To Li's credit, he negotiated access to those materials. 1

The case study presented is that of Sophie Lanneau, who served as a missionary with the Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention (Richmond) in China during a turbulent period of Chinese history. During her time in China, she witnessed the Chinese Republican Revolution, the Nationalist Revolution, World War II, the Civil War, and the victory of the Chinese Communist forces, which finally forced her to leave China in 1950. Li describes Lanneau's transformation from North Carolina native into the leader of a school for girls in the city of Suzhou, China. He narrates the story of the years of Lanneau's personal and institutional struggle through the turmoil of Chinese history during the first half of the twentieth century and finally as an exile from China, with her school taken from her. . . .

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