The Awakening by Marie Monsen is an account of the revival that took place in China during the years 1927 to 1937. Miss Monsen, a missionary from Norway, was one of the pioneers of the revival movement. Leslie Lyall says that "her surgical skill in exposing the sins hidden within the Church and lurking behind the smiling exterior of many a trusted Christian--even many a trusted Christian leader--and her quiet insistence on a clear-cut experience of the new birth set the pattern for others to follow.