A London-born Wesleyan Methodist missionary, William Arthur Cornaby (1860 1921) spent over thirty years in China, where he edited The Chinese Christian Review, and, from 1905, the Ta Tung Pao, a weekly magazine targeted at Chinese officials and scholars. His many books on Chinese culture and civilisation, including A String of Chinese Peach-Stones (1895) and Rambles in Central China (1896), provide detailed sketches of Chinese rural life and customs. The later China Under the Search-Light, first published in 1901, uses Western cliches about China as a point of departure to offer a more...
A London-born Wesleyan Methodist missionary, William Arthur Cornaby (1860 1921) spent over thirty years in China, where he edited The Chinese Christia...
William Arthur Cornaby (1860 1921) was born in London and educated at the School of Mines before training as a Methodist minister. In 1885 Cornaby was sent as a missionary to Wuhan, central China, and A String of Chinese Peach-Stones (1895) was inspired by his experiences. Cornaby explains that his title suggests that the reader possesses 'a collection of desiccated tales, legends, and the like, picked up here and there along the highways and byways of China'. Cornaby's work covers the period 1849 1867, and discusses the major episodes of the Taiping Rebellion (1850 1864) as well as providing...
William Arthur Cornaby (1860 1921) was born in London and educated at the School of Mines before training as a Methodist minister. In 1885 Cornaby was...
