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Jacqueline Bryony Lucy ‘Jackie’ Pullinger, MBE [3] (born 1944) is a British Protestant Christian charismatic missionary to Hong Kong and founder of the St Stephen's Society. She has been ministering in Hong Kong since 1966. The early years of her Hong Kong ministry are chronicled in the book Chasing the Dragon (1980).
Gladys May Aylward (24 February 1902 – 3 January 1970) was a British-born evangelical Christian missionary to China, whose story was told in the book The Small Woman: The Heroic Story of Gladys Aylward, by Alan Burgess, published in 1957. The book served as the basis for the film The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, starring Ingrid Bergman, in
Hong Xiuquan [b] (1 January 1814 [a] – 1 June 1864), born Hong Huoxiu [c] and with the courtesy name Renkun, was a Chinese revolutionary and religious leader who led the Taiping Rebellion against the Qing dynasty. He established the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom over large portions of southern China, with himself as its "Heavenly King".
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has more than 23,000 practitioners in Hong Kong divided into 36 congregations, doubling the number of members from 10 years earlier. [13] The LDS Church first sent missionaries to Hong Kong in 1853 but did not establish a headquarters until 1949.
Man-Kai Wan (1869–1927) was one of the first Chinese doctors of Western medicine in Hong Kong, the inaugural chairman of the Hong Kong Chinese Medical Association (1920–1922, forerunner of the Hong Kong Medical Association), and a secondary school classmate of Sun Yat-sen in the Government Central College (currently known as Queen's College ...
The frontispiece of Athanasius Kircher's 1667 China Illustrata, depicting the Jesuit founders Francis Xavier and Ignatius of Loyola adoring the monogram of Christ in Heaven while Johann Adam Schall von Bell and Matteo Ricci labor on the China mission "The Complete Map of the Myriad Countries" (Wanguo Quantu), Giulio Aleni's adaptation of Western geographic knowledge to Chinese cartographic ...
The China City development was described in the 1941 American Guide to Los Angeles created by the Federal Writers' Project: [8] CHINA CITY (open 8 a.m - 2 a.m.), bounded by Ord, Main, Macy, and New High Sts, is an American-promoted, Chinese-operated amusement center designed to attract tourists.
Zhongguo de Jidujiao Wutuobang--Yesu jiating (1921-1952) [Jesus Family--A Utopia in China (1921-1952)] (in Chinese). Hong Kong: Chinese University Press. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press. Asia in the Making of Christianity: Conversion, Agency, and Indigeneity, 1600s to the Present .