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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.

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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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Zhenjiang Memorial to Hudson Taylor

2016/07/142020/04/24 Prof Ron China Inland Mission, Christian, church, CIM, historic, history, hudson taylor, Hudson Tower, James Hudson Taylor, Jiangsu, memorial, missionary, photo, taylor, xuan de, xuande, Zhenjiang

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.