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Mary Ninde Gamewell
1858–1947
A Methodist missionary and writer who spent years in China, she turned firsthand experience into vivid books that introduced many American readers to Chinese life and history. Her best-known work, Ming-Kwong, City of the Morning Light, became a widely used study text.
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The gateway to China : pictures of Shanghai
by Mary Ninde Gamewell
About the author
Born in 1858, she was an American writer and Methodist missionary connected with mission work in China. She was the daughter of Methodist bishop William Xavier Ninde, and after marrying missionary Francis Dunlap Gamewell, she became part of a family deeply linked with Protestant mission work in China.
Her writing grew out of travel, religious work, and long personal experience overseas. Among her books were We Two Alone in Europe (1897), New Life Currents in China (1919), Ming-Kwong, City of the Morning Light (1924), and The Gateway to China: Pictures of Shanghai; Ming-Kwong was noted as a widely used textbook on China for mission study.
She died on August 26, 1947. Today, she is remembered as one of the writers who helped English-language readers of her time picture everyday life, change, and foreign mission activity in China.