J. Samuel Hammond

Grace

History & Biography

“This thoroughly annotated five-year diary, including contemporary accounts of the retreat colony Kuling and schools in Nanking, provides rich and illuminating primary documentation toward understanding the daily personal, family, social, and professional lives of American educators and missionaries in early-20th-century China, the native culture in which they devoted themselves, and their influence on subsequent generations. A Graceful window on the lives of Westerners and Chinese alike.”