Books like Shanghaied to China by Dave Jackson

Three family members race through a South Sea island’s perilous wilderness to find a lost missionary, weaving mystery, adventure, and faith into an exciting quest for survival and truth.

Charlie, a young boy living in a mission compound, collects precious treasures in a box as he prepares to escape with his family from rebel soldiers, discovering an unusual bead that may hold unexpected meaning.

A young Quechua traveler discovers the power of faith as missionary Romulo Saune guides his people away from the terror of the Shining Path insurgents.

When Patrick and Beth escape a volcanic eruption, they split up; Beth ends up in the Amazon jungle while Patrick and Eugene scramble to repair the Imagination Station to reunite them, all while a mysterious spearman watches.

Contrary to pervasive conventional views that Shanghai was little more than a fishing village prior to its opening as a Western treaty port in 1843, this social history of Shanghai shows that the city was a major commercial port long before the arrival of the British. The author traces the development of Shanghai from market town in the Song dynasty and county seat in the Yuan period to a center of cotton production in the Ming era and important port city in the Qing dynasty. By the early nineteenth century, Shanghai was among the twenty or so largest cities in China. Drawing on diverse Chinese materials - gazetteers, tariff manuals, and other internal sources - the author presents a China-centered perspective that stresses trends and continuities in the history of the Chinese city and situates the arrival of the West in the context of existing Chinese institutions, government policies, and commercial establishments.