Medical missions in China
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Medical missions in China by Catholic and Protestant physicians and surgeons of the 19th and early 20th centuries laid many foundations for modern medicine in China. Western medical missionaries estab
An early Yuan dynasty portrait of Su Shi, by Zhao Mengfu 趙孟頫.
Peter Parker
Fuzhounese Hü King Eng on graduation from the Woman's Medical College of Philadelphia in 1894.
Hudson Taylor at age 21.
Robert Morrison (missionary)
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Robert Morrison, FRS was a British Protestant missionary to Portuguese Macao, Qing-era Guangdong, and Dutch Malacca, who was also a pioneering sinologist, lexicographer, and translator considered the
Portrait by John Wildman, c. 1820s
Morrison's birthplace in Bullers Green near Morpeth, Northumberland, England
Painting of the Thirteen Factories, c. 1805
Li Shigong (far left) and Chen Laoyi translating the Bible as Morrison looks on, an engraving after George Chinnery's now-lost c. 1828 original.