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Real Lives of Real Missionaries

A Webinar on the Life and Ministry of Timothy Richard

By ChinaSource Team ⋅ Mar 05, 2020 ⋅ Topic: Church History

From the series Exploring Christianity and Culture in China: Today and Yesterday

A full video recording of the webinar is available on YouTube.

Also, Dr. Kaiser’s written responses to submitted questions for the Q & A time that were not answered during the webinar are available for download.

Real Lives of Real Missionaries Q & ADownload

Our thanks to the History & Related Fields and World Languages departments of the University of Northwestern-St. Paul for being our on-campus sponsors. We are also grateful to our other co-sponsors: The US-China Catholic Association, Anselm House, and Evergreen.

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Image of Timothy Richard and family in 1887 courtesy of the China Mission History Digital Archive.
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