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Stephen Yang
Stephen Yang (1911–2007), also known as Stephen C. H. Yang,; Sichuanese Pinyin, Sichuanese romanization: ''Iang Chen-hua''. was a Sichuanese people, Sichuanese surgeon, Medical education, medical educator, and Quakers, Quaker Christian pacifism, peace activist. Life and career Stephen Yang was born in 1911 in Chongqing, Sichuan, and raised by parents of the Quakers, Quaker faith (Religious Society of Friends). In 1922, he lived at the Friends Middle School on the campus of the West China Union University in Chengdu, cofounded by International Ministries (organization), American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, American Methodist Episcopal Mission, Canadian Methodist Mission, and Quaker Peace and Social Witness, Friends' Foreign Mission Association. After graduating from the Union University in 1938 with a medical degree, he became a teacher at its West China Medical Center, College of Medicine while continuing his medical training. In 1942, Yang married Ruth Dsang, daughter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chongqing
ChongqingPostal Romanization, Previously romanized as Chungking ();. is a direct-administered municipality in Southwestern China. Chongqing is one of the four direct-administered municipalities under the State Council of the People's Republic of China, Central People's Government, along with Beijing, Shanghai, and Tianjin. It is the only directly administrated municipality located deep inland. The municipality covers a large geographical area roughly the size of Austria, which includes several disjunct urban areas in addition to Chongqing proper. Due to its classification, the municipality of Chongqing is the List of largest cities, largest city proper in the world by population, though Chongqing is not the most populous urban area. The municipality of Chongqing is the only Chinese city with a resident population of over 30 million; however, this number includes its large rural population. In 2020, Chongqing surpassed Shanghai as China's largest municipality by urban populati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Methodist Mission
The Canadian Methodist Mission (CMM), also known as Missionary Society of the Methodist Church in Canada (MCC; zh, t=美道會, w=Mei3 Tao4 Hui4, p=Měi Dào Huì, l=Beautiful Way Society; former romanization: Mei Dao Hwei or Meh Dao Hwei; also known as Ying Mei Hui [ zh, t=英美會, w=Ying1 Mei3 Hui4, p=Yīng Měi Huì, l=Anglo-American Society, links=no]), was a Methodist Church (Canada), Canadian Methodist Christian missionary society mostly working in the province of Sichuan, Szechwan, which was also referred to as "West China." History The Canadian Methodist Mission was founded by . In February 1892, eight members of the mission society led by Hart reached Szechwan. Work began in Chengdu, Chengtu and, two years later, in Leshan, Kiatingfu, with the establishment of mission stations in both cities. A Sï-Shen-Tsï Methodist Church, church and a were subsequently built in Chengtu, which was the result of a team effort by Omar Leslie Kilborn, O. L. Kilborn, V. C. Hart, Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
