A Passion for China: Norwegian Mission to China Until 1949

Protestant Western mission to China since Robert Morrison arrived in Macao in 1807 until Mao Zedong's Communist revolution 1949 has been controversial, not least in China. When the missionaries after 1949 were expelled from China, the official Chinese history did not leave them much honour. They were viewed as lackeys of Western imperialism propagating a religion that was ""feudal superstition"" and which would eventually disappear in a Communist society. Yet, today the view of the missiona...