HONSINGER, WELTHY: - Beyond the Moon Gate. Being a Diary of Ten Years in the Interior of the Middle Kingdom. New York and Cincinnati, The Abingdon Press, (1924).

. Pp. 176. With frontispiece and twenty-four illustrations made from photographs. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards, spine lightly rubbed. Housed in illustrated dust-wrappers, spine ends, and outer corners chipped. Light water staining at the upper margin, most visible on the plates and binding. First very rare edition.Wealthy Honsinger Fischer (1879-1980), American Methodist educational missionary in China and India. She first came to China in 1906 and became headmistress of the Bao Lin school in Nanchang. She was committed to the idea of women's independence, and she wanted to encourage her young girls through their education to become new, modern Chinese women. This diary provides an interesting and sympathetic picture of life in China, then a country between the old traditional empire and the emerging modern Westernised China. Not in Robinson.