God's Chinese Son

The book God?s Chinese Son by Jonathan D. Spence is a clever inside look at the effects had on a society by a colonial trade port enterprise. I liked the way that at the beginning of the book it seems as though there are a lot of unrelated topics, but by the end they each are woven together into the fabric of this society and how each had an effect on each other. One …

…it lists six laws to follow of which the first is ?Not to Kill? (p. 62). This is the tract that establishes the foundation for Hong?s Christian faith, but yet later he would command his servants to Yang because he was preventing Hong from having complete control of the God-worshiping Society. With God?s Chinese Son, Spence has taken a mircocosmic experience and added extraordinary insights into the universal rippling effects of colonialism ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**