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Tag Archives: China Inland Mission
Guest blog: A ‘Magic Weapon’ on the Sino-Tibetan Frontier
The author of our latest guest post is Benno Weiner, Associate Professor in the Department of History at Carnegie Mellon University. He is author of The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier (Cornell University Press, 2020) and co-editor of Conflicting … Continue reading
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Tagged China Inland Mission, missionaries, Qinghai, Tibet
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Wuhan photographed
Over the past month Wuhan has been much-discussed, but its history is still largely misunderstood. I wrote about its long and intimate relationship with world markets in this blog post. It was of course, like most of the Chinese treaty … Continue reading
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Tagged Bund, China Inland Mission, flooding, Hankow, Jardine Matheson, Wuhan
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Spotted: James Hudson Taylor
A correspondent recently wrote to us, correcting a date and identifying in a photograph two of the China missionary enterprise’s most notable figures. This photograph, above, showing staff and pupils of the Chefoo Girls School includes, we now know, James Hudson … Continue reading
Posted in Photograph of the day
Tagged Chefoo, China Inland Mission, missionaries, school, Yantai
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