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This is a list of notable Protestant missionaries in China by agency. Beginning with the arrival of Robert Morrison in 1807 and ending in 1953 with the departure of Arthur Matthews and Dr. Rupert Clark of the China Inland Mission, thousands of foreign Protestant missionaries and their families, lived and worked in China to spread Christianity, establish schools, and work as medical missionaries.
For Robert Morrison and the first missionaries who followed him, life in China consisted of being confined to Portuguese Macao and the Thirteen Factories trading ghetto in Guangzhou (then known as "Canton") with only the reluctant support of the East India Company and confronting opposition from the Chinese government and from the Jesuits who had been established in China for more than a century.
Chinese Evangelization Society 1853 Chinese Home Missionary Society: Chinese Tract Society: 1878 Christian and Missionary Alliance: 1890 Christian Catholic Church in Zion [1] 1903 Christian College in China: 1903 Christian Reformed Church: Christian Vernacular Society of Shanghai: 1890 Christians' Mission: 1885 Church of England Mission 1903
Robert Morrison (1782-1834) is credited with several historical firsts in addition to the first bidirectional Chinese and English dictionary. He was the first Protestant missionary in China, started the first Chinese-language periodical in 1815, [5] collaborated with William Milne to write the first translation of the Bible into Chinese in 1823, helped to found the English-language The Canton ...
Robert Morrison, FRS (5 January 1782 – 1 August 1834), was an Anglo-Scottish [2] [3] Protestant missionary to Portuguese Macao, Qing-era Guangdong, and Dutch Malacca, who was also a pioneering sinologist, lexicographer, and translator considered the "Father of Anglo-Chinese Literature".
Marcos was elected as Patriarch of the Church of the East, and Bar Sauma went as far as visiting the courts of Europe in 1287–1288, where he told Western monarchs about Christianity among the Mongols. In 1294, Franciscan friars from Europe initiated mission work in China. For about a century they worked in parallel with the Church of the East ...
A Dictionary of the Chinese Language, in Three Parts: Chinese and English arranged according to the radicals. Vol. 4 of A Dictionary of the Chinese Language, in Three Parts, Robert Morrison (reprint ed.). MACAO: Printed at the Honorable the East India Company's Press by P.P. Thoms; Robert Morrison (1825).
Words of Chinese origin have entered European languages, including English. Most of these were direct loanwords from various varieties of Chinese.However, Chinese words have also entered indirectly via other languages, particularly Korean, Japanese and Vietnamese, that have all used Chinese characters at some point and contain a large number of Chinese loanwords.