East West History – Canadian Dragonfly

Early Christian Misions in China East West History

Historic YMCA site in Chengdu (Sichuan Province)

2022/09/062024/04/15 Prof Ron Chengdu, China, Christian, history, missionary, photography, Sichuan, tourism, YMCA

Founded in 1910, the Chengdu YMCA was part of the Christian missionary movement of the late 1800s and early 1900s,

Early Western History Travel in USA/America

Historic Falls Church, Virginia 2019

2019/08/022020/06/22 Prof Ron America, British, Church of England, Civil War, colonial, George Mason, George Washington, history, Independence, parish, vestryman, Washington

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.

China--Events China--Locations Early Christian Misions in China Early Schools in China East West History Travel in China

A Chefoo School Celebration, Yantai 2018

2018/06/302021/05/05 Prof Ron Chefoo, China, China Inland Mission, CIM, colonial, Education, foreign, history, Mission, missionary, museum, school, Shandong, Yantai

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.

China--Locations East West History Travel in China

Travelling the Old Silk Road in Gansu

2017/06/292017/09/29 Prof Ron Flying Horse, Gansu, Great Wall, Lanzhou, Marco Polo, Silk Road, Wuwei, Yellow River, Zhangye

As a Canadian traveller in China, one of my keen interests is to explore historic connections between East and West.

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Shandong University: Its Early Years

2017/03/132023/04/19 Prof Ron Cheeloo, Christian, historic, history, Jinan, Luce, medical, missionary, Shandong, training, university

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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Visit Yantai Chefoo School 2016

2017/01/092021/04/20 Prof Ron Chefoo, China Inland Mission, CIM, history, international, Mission, missionaries, missionary, school, Shandong, Yantai

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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