China and the Modern World: Missionary, Sinology, and Literary Periodicals 1817-1949 documents the thoughts of Chinese intellectuals and Western missionaries and diplomats about China, and their efforts to understand Chinese culture and transform the nation in the years before 1949. The collection contains 17 missionary, academic, and literary periodicals in English published in or about China during a period from late Qing Dynasty until the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949.