Queensland author John Holliday retraces the steps of his great-great-grandfather Walter Medhurst – a missionary whose legacy lives on in parts of Asia to this day.

Mission to China: How an Englishman Brought the West to the Orient explores Medhurst’s efforts to bring about a cross-cultural understanding between China and England in the early 1800s.

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