At the Frontier of God's Empire

By using the unique collection of a missionary's accounts and her own fieldwork, Ji Li has well reconstructed Alfred Marie Caubrière's fascinating and forgotten stories and his relationship with local people in late-Qing and Republican Manchuria. Anyone who is interested in rural China, daily life, cross-cultural exchanges, the transformation of Manchuria, and missionary history should read this book. * Di Wang, rofessor of History, University of Macau * This is a captivating tale of a French Catholic missionary and his flock, which has the potential to become a classic in modern Chinese history for telling a local history from the ground up while connecting to global historical developments. * Ronnie Hsia, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of History, Pennsylvania State University * A deeply researched, charming and very moving account of a French missionary's long life in a Manchurian village from 1900, when he experienced the Boxer Uprising, to 1948 when he was murdered shortly after the Chinese Communists took over the area. At the Frontier of God's Empire is impressive for its deep knowledge of both the Chinese and French context and uses these materials to engage interestingly with recent discussions of empire and the interactions of the local and the global. * Henrietta Harrison, Professor of Modern Chinese Studies, University of Oxford China Centre *