Timothy Richard of China

Timothy Richard was born in Wales and was converted during the 1859-60 Revival. He responded to the call to overseas service and served with the Baptist Missionary Society in China. He became convinced that the indigenous church should be self-supporting and that evangelism was best done by native Chinese Christians. The Ex-patriate missionaries should devote their time to working with the intelligentsia of China and combine outreach with development. After the Boxer uprising of 1900 he was instrumental in the establishment of Shanghai University.

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William E. Soothill [1861-1935], Timothy Richard of China. Seer, Statesman, Missionary & Most Disinterested Adviser the Chinese Ever Had. London: Seeley, Service & Co. Ltd., 1924. Hbk. pp.330.

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Contents

1. Foreword
2. Early Life in Wales
3. China in the Sixties
4. Pioneering in Shantung & Manchuria
5. Chefoo
6. Farewell to Chefoo
7. Ch’ing-Choo-Fu
8. Famine Relief: Shantung
9. Famine Relief: Shansi
10. Pioneering in Shansi
11. Developments in Shansi
12. T’ai-yuan, Ch’ing-Chou & Peking
13. First Furlough
14. In Exile
15. Christian Literature Society: Work in Shanghai
16. Chino-Japanese War
17. T’ien-T’ai
18. Enlightening the Government on Missions
19. The Reform Society
20. Second Furlough
21. The Reform Movement
22. Second Furlough
23. The Reform Movement
24. The Boxer Madness
25. The Shansi University: A Dream Fulfilled
26. Between the Boxers & The Revolution
27. Conferences at Home
28. Visits to Japan & Korea
29. The Revolution
30. Buddhism
31. Home Again

• Index

Foreword

Dr Timothy Richard the subject of this biography, which must have been a labour of love to Professor Soothill, his co-worker in later years, was for over forty years an outstanding personality in China, and gained the respect and esteem of the Chinese people in a degree which it has been given to few foreigners to attain. My recollection of him dates from the seventies of last century, when he and a few other devoted missionaries threw themselves into the formidable task of organizing relief work in connection with an appalling famine in Shansi, and laid the foundation of all the subsequent efforts which have been made with so much success to cope with these constantly recurring calamities in China. Dr Richard’s work in Shansi brought him into close relations with the ruling classes, and convinced him of the necessity of diffusing throughout the country a knowledge of the humanitarian principles and methods of government practised in the West…