Qu Ang went to Malacca as printer in 1816, one year after Liang Fa (梁发). In 1830, at the age of 43, he was baptized by Robert Morrison and served the church in Canton, working together with Morrison Sr. and Jr., Legge, Hobson, and Liang Fa.
He would distribute scriptures or read spiritual literature to patients at Hobson’s hospital. He went to Shanghai for one year in 1853. At his 70th birthday, his wife finally received baptism. Qu Ang was respected as the most senior Protestant Chinese Christian in Hongkong in the 1850s. In 1864 he returned to his old home, where he died in January 1968. See: Liang Fa, He Jinshan.
Sources
Taken with permission from:
Leopold Leeb, "Christians Born Before 1830: Pioneers and Partners of Foreign Missionaries in the Coastal Areas, Courageous Witnesses in the Hinterland," in Dictionary of the History of Christianity in China, ed. Wojciech Rybka, Piotr Adamek, and Sonja Meiting Huang (Fu Jen University Press: Taipei, Taiwan, 2024), 52.
