The most definitive biography of Hudson Taylor is the James Broomhall, Hudson Taylor and China's Open Century, in 7 volumes (1981-1989).

Book 1 - Barbarians at the Gates (Out of Print)
Book 2 - Over the Treaty Wall (Out of Print)
Book 3 - If I Had a Thousand Lives
Book 4 - Survivor's Pact (Out of Print)
Book 5 - Refiner's Fire (Out of Print)
Book 6 - Assault on the Nine
Book 7 - It is not Death to Die

The sixth volume starts with Hudson Taylor, still half paralysed by an accident and burdened with the desire to reach all China for Christ, beginning to see his plans fulfilled: the volunteers to reach nine vast provinces, with over one hundred and fifty million inhabitants, are selected.

No sooner were the first eighteen ready to travel than the murder of a British consular offical and the ensuing court intrigues jeapardises their carefully laid plans. This was an unlikely start for what were to prove the most dramatic ten years of expansion for the China Inland Mission. The frontiers recede; the work grows; the first women missionaries are commissioned; schools are started; countless Chinese colleagues prove the key to advance in the work for which, in 1887, the future seems bright and full of promise.

539 pages

ISBN: 0-340-42629-2