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Feature Article

American Protestant Missions in Nineteenth-Century China

by George B. Pruden

European Catholics mounted the first systematic effort to convert Chinese to Christianity in the late sixteenth century. Their work was part of the Catholic Counter Reformation, but by 1750, the glory days were over. Jesuits such as Matteo Ricci (1552–1610) had not only won converts, but gained the respect of influential Chinese and even some emperors in the latter part of the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) and the early part of the Qing dynasty (1644–1912). Their success stemmed in part from ac...

Book Review Essay, Columns, Essay

Confucius Lives Next Door: What Living in the East Teaches Us about Living in the West

by George B. Pruden

T. R. Reid served as Tokyo Bureau Chief for the Washington Post for almost six years during the first half of the 1990s and was a regular contributor to NPR’s “Morning Edition.” Having lived in Japan for several years two decades earlier and having studied East Asian philosophy and history at Princeton, he brought to his assignment more of an academic background than many foreign correspondents have. This book is not a compilation of his radio spots or articles he wrote for his newspaper; ...

Book Review, Resources

Old Man Thunder: Father of the Bullet Train

by George B. Pruden

Its official name is Shinkansen (“New Trunk Line”), but its sleek lines and distinctively shaped front end make it instantly recognizable as the Bullet Train even outside Japan. It began operation on October 1, 1964, just before the Tokyo Olympics opened. Both the train and the Olympics signaled Japan’s remarkable recovery from the devastation of World War II in less than two decades. Yet few people outside Japan are aware of how the Bullet Train came to be built and even less that it was ...

Film Review Essay, Resources

The Korean War

by George B. Pruden

DISTRUBUTED BY FILMS FOR THE HUMANITIES AND SCIENCES BOX 2053 PRINCETON, NJ 08543-2053 © 1993. 26 MINUTES VHS FORMAT COLOR. BLACK AND WHITE. Reviewed by George B. Pruden Few video resources exist for the Korean War or for the two Koreas after World War II or after the armistice of 1953. That is unfortunate, since a properly focused study of Korea provides a micro view of the postwar era in several important aspects. The war was an early, intense, and significant part of the Cold War. It...

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