Director, Global China Center; General Editor, Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
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David Howard Adeney
1911 ~ 1994
Missionary and university evangelist in China and East Asia.
Affiliations: China Inland Mission‚ InterVarsity Christian Fellowship | Locales: China‚ Singapore
Gladys May Aylward
1902 ~ 1970
British missionary in China.
Affiliation: Independent Missionary | Locale: Shanxi Province
W. Malprus Belcher
1864 ~ 1929
English missionary who worked in Liangzhou, Gansu for 40 years.
Affiliation: China Inland Mission | Locale: Gansu Province
Lemuel Nelson Bell
1894 ~ 1973
Southern Presbyterian medical missionary in Tsingkiangpu (now Huaiyin), Jiangsu, China
Affiliation: American Southern Presbyterian Mission | Locale: Jiangsu Province
Miss Dorothy Jean Bidlake
1899 ~ 1929
American female missionary who sacrificed her youth to serve famine victims in Gansu.
Affiliation: China Inland Mission | Locale: Gansu Province
Theodore (“Ted”) Choy
1916 ~ 1992
Pioneer worker among Chinese students in North America; frequent traveler to China after 1979 to minister to house churches.
Affiliation: Ambassadors for Christ, Inc. | Locales: Hong Kong ‚ United States‚ China
Samuel Dyer
1804 ~ 1843
London Missionary Society missionary remembered for his printing of Chinese characters and for his daughter Maria, who married Hudson Taylor.
Affiliation: London Missionary Society | Locales: Malaysia ‚ Hong Kong‚ Singapore
Feng Nenggui
1865 ~
Chinese basket-maker-turned evangelist, helper to CIM missionaries
Affiliation: China Inland Mission | Locale: Ningbo City
Emil Fischbacher
1903 ~ 1933
English medical missionary who devoted his life to the minority peoples of Xinjiang.
Affiliation: China Inland Mission | Locale: Xinjiang Province
Annie Garland
1861 ~ 1929
Australian missionary who served for thirty-nine years in Gansu and finally sacrificed her life for the people there.
Affiliation: China Inland Mission | Locale: Gansu Province
Karl Friedrich August Gutzlaff
1803 ~ 1851
First German Lutheran Missionary to China.
Affiliations: Netherlands Missionary Society‚ Chinese Evangelization Society | Locales: Macau‚ Hong Kong‚ Guangdong Province
Ji Zhiwen
1901 ~ 1985
20th-century Chinese Evangelical Protestant leader, evangelist, revivalist and philanthropist.
Affiliations: Bethel Evangelistic Band‚ Chinese Evangelization Society | Locales: Shanghai ‚ Hong Kong‚ United States
Jiang Jieshi
1887 ~ 1975
Military leader of China; chairman of the Nationalist Party; President of the Republic of China.
Eric Henry Liddell
1902 ~ 1945
Olympic gold-medalist and Scottish missionary in China.
Affiliation: London Missionary Society | Locale: Tianjin
Percy Cunningham Mather
1884 ~ 1933
Missionary pioneer of the China Inland Mission in Central Asia; linguist and translator.
Affiliation: China Inland Mission | Locales: Anhui Province‚ Xinjiang Province
Robert Morrison
1782 ~ 1834
Pioneer Protestant missionary to China.
Affiliation: London Missionary Society | Locales: Macau‚ Guangzhou City
Lloyd Robert Rist
1885 ~ 1929
A Canadian missionary who served faithfully in Gansu until his death.
Affiliation: China Inland Mission | Locale: Gansu Province
Otto F. Schoerner
1906 ~ 2008
American medical missionary, who served in Xinjiang and Gansu for 20 years; President of the Borden Memorial Hospital, Lanzhou, Gansu.
Affiliation: China Inland Mission | Locales: Xinjiang Province‚ Gansu Province
Song Shangjie
1901 ~ 1944
Chinese revivalist, evangelist, and author. Sung's fearless and tireless ministry in China and Southeast Asia has resulted in thousands of conversions as well as revival in the life of churches he visited.
Affiliations: Chinese Methodist Church‚ Bethel Worldwide Evangelistic Band | Locale: Fujian Province
Arnold Strange
1897 ~ 1941
China Inland Mission missionary engaged in evangelism and relief work in Western China.
Affiliation: China Inland Mission | Locales: Shaanxi Province‚ Gansu Province
James Hudson Taylor
1832 ~ 1905
Founder and director of the China Inland Mission.
Affiliation: China Inland Mission | Locale: Jiangsu Province
Wang Laiquan
1835 ~ 1901
Chinese evangelist and pastor
Affiliation: China Inland Mission | Locales: Ningbo City‚ Hangzhou City
Wu Hongyu
1834 ~ 1919
An early well-known minister of the American Episcopal Church in China, who made a major contribution to his church and to the contextualization of Christianity in China.
Affiliation: American Episcopal Church Mission | Locale: Shanghai