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<p>An Epic of the East is a rare historical document written by American missionary Sarah Moore Sites in the late nineteenth century recording the earliest footprints of Western missionaries in Fujian China.</p><p>Through vivid daily observations and delicate spiritual reflections she preserves a first-hand account of the people customs landscapes schools churches river routes and social conditions of Fujian in the mid-to-late Qing dynasty.</p><p></p><p>This translation restores the original tone of the 1902 edition while providing clear elegant contemporary English/Chinese readability. As both translator and editor Dejuan Fang adds careful footnotes cultural clarifications and historical supplements enabling modern readers to understand the worldview of a woman who wrote across cultures more than 120 years ago.</p><p></p><p>This book is not merely a missionary memoir-it is a cultural document a cross-civilization encounter and a rare feminine perspective on early Sino-Western contact.</p><p>It is history literature faith narrative and personal witnessing woven into one.</p>