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Advance Praise for Beyond the Stone Arches
""Now the world can share the life of this great man. In its intimate detail, this is a fascinating story that serves as a valuable introduction to the people of a country so important to us today.""-Walter Cronkite
""A fascinating look at China from the point of view of an American medical missionary, this absorbing life of a quiet hero rings with authenticity and sheds light on the turbulent years from the late 1800s to 1932 that will be a revelation for most Western readers.""-Adeline Yen Mah, author of Falling Leaves
""This is a proud man's story of a father who lived a life of a medical missionary in China for forty years-a life of service, sacrifice, joy, and fulfillment. The pages turn easily and quickly with humor, care, and love. It's a jewel of a book that will remain with you forever.""-Jim Lehrer, The News Hour
""A small gem. Edward Bliss embarked, against great odds, on a remarkable range of activities aimed at improving the livelihood of common people. He was a veritable one-man Peace Corps. His is an inspiring story that warms the heart and enriches the soul.""-H. T. Huang, author of Science and Civilization in China
""It took three years for Edward Bliss, M.D., to ascend the Min River in a convoy of three river junks in 1893, averaging fourteen miles a day. This was his first trip to Shaowu, which became his home for forty-two years, a tumultuous and dangerous time and place. His son tells the story of his father's life and work in fascinating detail, drawing on a trove of letters and extensive interviews with his father.""-Donald MacInnis, former Methodist missionary and China Program Director, National Council of Churches/USA
- Sales Rank: #1660668 in Books
- Published on: 2000-12-08
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.79" h x 1.06" w x 5.83" l, .95 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 256 pages
From Publishers Weekly
"When you were so sick in infancy, and there was little hope of your recovery, did I not earnestly pray that the Lord would spare your life that you might live for His glory," wrote the devout Emily Lydston Bliss in 1891 to her oldest son and the author's father, Edward, upon hearing that he had chosen to become a missionary doctor in China. Relying on letters from and conversations with his father and others, as well as his own recollections of living in China as the son of two missionaries, Bliss offers a lovely account of his father's lifelong devotion to China and its people. The author perfectly balances an objective description of his father's contributions as a physician and Christian missionary with a genuine warmth and respect for him. As a backdrop to the primary story of his father's work, Bliss describes the larger sociopolitical events taking place both in China and around the world--recalling that his father once described himself and his fellow American missionaries as "the first anti-isolationists." Bliss senior suffered bouts of malaria, plagues and floods, but it would only be in the wake of Mao's rise to power that Edward would leave China. Bliss succeeds beautifully in painting a private view of a transformative period in world history through the eyes of one man. Readers will recognize Bliss's name from his long and distinguished career in broadcast journalism, which will contribute to sales of this excellent book.
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From Booklist
Desiring to lead a helpful life, Edward Bliss Sr. learned medicine and applied for nonpreaching missionary service in China. Thus began the 40 fascinating and varied years that his son lovingly details, drawing on a variety of records and manuscripts and many interviews to make his father's biography an enjoyable depiction of Chinese life. Most of Dr. Bliss' time was spent in and around the city of Shaowu in southeast China. He learned the language; traveled a wide area by boat, train, mule, and on foot; and discovered how his patients lived and thought as well as how to treat and even prevent some of their medical problems. He built clinics and hospitals, several of them more than once because of political, military, and flood problems; established herds of milk cows; and did remarkable practical and research work on fighting rinderpest, a destructive cattle disease. His courtship of his wife, May, conducted in part by building a tennis court, and their long, mutually supportive, productive marriage are other noteworthy achievements. William Beatty
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""When you were so sick in infancy, and there was little hope of your recovery, did I not earnestly pray that the Lord would spare your life that you might live for His glory,"" wrote the devout Emily Lydston Bliss in 1891 to her oldest son and the author's father, Edward, upon hearing that he had cosen to become a missionary doctor in China. Relying on letters from and conversations with his father and others, as well as his own recollections of living in China as the son of two missionaries, Bliss offers a lovely account of his father's lifelong devotion to China and its people. The author perfectly balances an objective description of his father's contributions as a physician and Christian missionary with a genuine warmth and respect for him. As a backdrop to the primary story of his father's work, Bliss describes the larger sociopolitical events taking place both in China and around the world - recalling that his father once described himself and his fellow American missionaries as ""the first anti-isolationists."" Bliss senior suffered bouts of malaria, plagues and flood, but it would only be in the wake of Mao's rise to power that Edward would leave China. Bliss succeeds beautifully in painting a private view of a transformative period in world history through the eyes of one man. Readers will recognize Bliss's name from his long and distinguished career in broadcast journalism, which will contribute to sales of this excellent book.
-- ""Publishers Weekly
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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful.
A pioneer missionary doctor in China: a true adventure tale
By Donald
"Beyond the Stone Arches" is the gripping story of a pioneer missionary doctor who served for four decades in a mission station deep in the interior of Fujian province. Each chapter could stand alone, for the scene changes from Imperial China to the shaky, new Republic in 1911, to civil wars, banditry, floods, plague and cholera epidemics - but through it all, Edward Bliss, Jr. tells the story of his father's daily work, his love for China and its people, his ventures such as raising milk cows so children could have milk, and his courage in the face of danger from Communist guerrillas, bandit gangs and rampant warlords. The book reads like an autobiography, for the author draws heavily on his own extensive interviews with his father and his father's letters, plus the author's own memories of childhood in pre-modern China. This is not a stereotype "missionary book!"
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
beautifully realized
By Leland
This is a wonderfully written account of a missionary's life in early 20th century China. Both educational and entertaining. Well worth the reader's time. Ed Bliss does the subject exquisite justice.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Beautiful tribute to a remarkable missionary doctor by his gifted-writer son
By Char
What a well-told story, wonder-filled and satisfying. It wasn't at all "dry" as I was expecting it to be. From the first chapter onward, I was surprised to find myself fully absorbed in the book, receiving the information in it eagerly, reacting to its anecdotes with alternate chuckles and tears. I soon began to wonder "Who is this author, this son of Dr. Edward Bliss, that he writes so WELL?" So, I read inside the book jacket more carefully than I had done at first and also looked up Edward Bliss Jr. on-line. I found out that Edward Jr., who died in 2002 at the age of 90, just a year after having published this book, was a doctor himself. He was best known however as a highly-awarded journalist and broadcaster who wrote for Edward R. Murrow and was a CBS news editor for Walter Cronkite. He founded a broadcast journalism program at American University. No wonder his writing was simple, vivid, and contained some imaginative metaphors.
[For instance, he is writing about the unusual weather that preceded a typhoon and remarks: "Overhead, the sky was an inverted bowl of porcelain, shimmering hot." Some other passages among those that I couldn't help noticing as special included: "Black-tiled houses stuck their backsides over the water. Boats nudged the waterfront like hungry piglets." Or, "Masts, spars, pumps, windlasses--even figureheads--were Newburyport-made. And many of them tasted salt from the China Sea." Or, "He would not see his father again. On the train window the raindrops ran down like tears." And there are more nice examples that you may want to discover for yourself...]
Besides being glad to learn about the adventurous but useful and down-to-earth life in Faith of Dr. Edward Bliss, I was moved by the brief descriptive passages that recreated marvelous Chinese landscapes and ancient townscapes. I've been wondering why I experienced as so evocative the description (and dim photo) of the Stone Archways outside of Shaowu (in Fujian Province rather near Fuzhou). Maybe, it was because they stood symbolically for the entrance of Dr. Bliss into his vocation in China: --- "No one met him on the road. He had the way all to himself as in a dream, and when he came to a succession of great stone arches, he could stop and examine them without self-consciousness. They were very old and covered with strange inscriptions. The oldness and strangeness stirred him. He was walking toward a city that was standing in the days of the Mongol conqueror Genghis Kahn and where, he knew, a mission established by modern-day apostles had scarcely begun its work."
I thought while reading about the Stone gate, and often throughout the story, how I would have loved to live in an ancient walled city! It occurred to me that the details of "walls," architecture, plants, and other aspects of living-- for instance, the low-slung Chinese tiled roofs, the colors and kinds of cut flowers and artwork hung in missionaries' homes, the fabric of a missionary woman's wedding dress, the very tall bamboo forests that resemble cathedrals-- are all glimpses of Chinese missionary life that readers don't usually encounter in stories that focus so often upon the crux of hardships and conflicts they endured.
I bought this book because I'm doing research into 19th century Chinese missions for reasons of genealogical interest, and the book turns out to provide me with lots of detailed information of just the sort I'm looking for about medical missionary life in particular. (Some material here about malaria in humans and rinderpest in cattle could be informative even to experts.) But, beyond that, I'm very glad I've experienced reading it because it is just a really enjoyable book. And it is a beautiful tribute of a gifted son for his quite remarkable father.
One of my favorite "chapters" is a brief amusing one about Edward's college days at Yale, 1883-1887. Author Edward Jr. begins by telling how a venerable preacher's wife of the time remarked, famously, "I would rather send my son to hell than to Yale," but how Edward Sr. chose it anyway for his own reasons because it was beyond Boston and because he had heard that teachers from Yale were in demand. Edward loved to walk in those days, which was fortunate since it was necessary for him to walk a great deal during his four undergraduate years at Yale. Using his father's account books of the time as a reference, Edward Jr. reports that Edward Sr. bought "twelve pairs of shoes, not even including gym slippers, and that he had them repaired 13 times!"
Chiefly, the earliest missionaries in Shaowu were Congregationalists, like Bliss, or Anglicans or Methodists. A few pages are devoted to Dr. Bliss's observations about the encounters between Protestant and Catholic missionaries in Shaowu, which were friendly but infrequent. Bliss predicted that the divisions between all the denominations, which were puzzling to the Chinese, would disappear sooner in the East than in the West. Bliss was pleased when several Chinese-led Protestant denominations united in 1927 to form one Church of Christ. The author indicates this was considered to have been "the most comprehensive church union achieved anywhere in the world up to that time."
Dr. Bliss's precipitate, unwilling departure from Shaowu in 1933 in the midst of general pandemonium, when the Red Communist Army was veritably at the gates, was heart-rending to read about. He had loved the Chinese and had served them for 40 years indomitably, determinedly, through sickness, disaster, war, floods, and lesser crises. He thought surely he would be able to return and carry on with his establishment of plans to help the people indefinitely, but he was not.
I found Dr. Bliss amazing because he was so irrepressible and indestructible, rebuilding over and again after overwhelmingly destructive blows to his work.
The closing pages are about the retirement years of Dr. Bliss and his wife in America, both of whom lived way into their 90s. These last glimpses are an intimate, loving and tender mirror reflecting the closing of the full circle of these two outstanding lives.
Despite its length, this review doesn't even BEGIN to provide adequate insight into the richness and readability of this worthwhile biography.
I wish the photographs were of a better quality.
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