The Illustrated Treatise on the Maritime Kingdoms, or Haiguo Tuzhi, is a 19th-century Chinese gazetteer compiled by scholar-official Wei Yuan and others, based on initial translations ordered by Imper
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Elijah Coleman Bridgman
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Elijah Coleman Bridgman was the first American Protestant Christian missionary appointed to China. He served with the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. One of the first few Protest
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Eliza Jane and Elijah Coleman Bridgman
After 1832 Bridgman's magazine provided English readers with in-depth coverage of China.