Falls Church, the building and the city after which it is named, is steeped in important early American history. The grounds of Falls Church (Episcopal) provide an interesting exploration of colonial and early American times.
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Yantai City, Shandong Province, celebrated the establishment (1881) of an internationally famous boarding school for children of expatriates in China during colonial times. The official opening of a major exhibit in city museum included the welcoming back of former students and their families in March 2018.
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In Jinan in 2016 we visited an original campus of Shandong University, once known as Cheeloo Christian University. A medical training college was first established here by Western missionary societies about 1902. Many of the original buildings are still there today. The site continues to be home to the Cheeloo College of Medicine.
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Part one of a two-part adventure (2016 and 2018) in Yantai, Shandong Province as I searched out some history of early Westerners in China 150 years ago. I was invited to give a lecture to students and staff of a military college that now occupies the historic site of Chefoo School (founded 1881). Later I was invited back as the city featured its own much forgotten history in a massive museum display.
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Dr James Hudson Taylor was a famous personality in the early modern period of contacts between China and Western nations. Annually, for three years, starting in 2014, I was able to trace the development of a new memorial to Taylor and his China Inland Mission center of operations in Zhenjiang. See photos and related articles.
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Photo collections of Qingdao… a beautiful location with historical sites of interest to Westerners and Chinese, too. Qingdao is one of the beautiful cities of China, with its mix of seashore landscapes, historic buildings, and modern skylines of glass and steel.
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