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From 50 missionaries in China in 1860, the number grew to 2,500 (counting spouses and children) in 1900. 1,400 of the missionaries were British, 1,000 were Americans, and 100 were from continental Europe, mostly Scandinavia. [1]
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.
9 1800 to 1849. 10 1850 to 1899. 11 1900 ... tribal medicine men blame European missionaries for the ... Wu Yung and others form the Chinese Missions Overseas in ...
Stations of the China Inland Mission in 1902, with hubs in Zhejiang, and between Gansu, Shanxi, Shaanxi and Henan. By the 1840s China became a major destination for Protestant missionaries from Europe and the United States. [40] Catholic missionaries, who had been banned for a time, returned a few decades later. [41]
William Scott Ament – controversial missionary to China; Thomas J. Arnold Missionary in China during the Qing dynasty; David Bogue – missionary to India, convert from the Church of Scotland; Samuel Dyer – 19th-century China; William Ellis – missionary to the South Pacific and an author; Cynthia Farrar – missionary to India, 1827–1862
North-West Kiang-si Mission Norwegian Lutheran China Mission Association: 1891 Norwegian Lutheran Mission: Norwegian Mission in China: 1889 Norwegian Missionary Society: 1901 Reformed Church in the United States: 1897 Reformed Church in America: 1903 Rhenish Missionary Society: 1847 Peking Mission for Chinese Blind 1881 Pentecostal Missionary ...
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".
From 50 missionaries in China in 1860, the number grew to 2,500 (counting wives and children) in 1900. 1,400 of the missionaries were British, 1,000 were Americans, and 100 were from Continental Europe, mostly Scandinavia. [14]