Foochow College

Foochow College was a college in

Fuzhou Fuzhou is the capital of Fujian, China. The city lies between the Min River (Fujian), Min River estuary to the south and the city of Ningde to the north. Together, Fuzhou and Ningde make up the Eastern Min, Mindong linguistic and cultural regi ...

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. It had a long history in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century with American Christian missionaries who taught there.

Charles Hartwell Charles Hartwell (; Pinyin: ''Xià Chálǐ''; Foochow Romanized: ''Hâ Chák-lī''; December 19, 1825 - January 30, 1905) was an American Board missionary to Fuzhou, China in the second half of the 19th century. Life and work Hartwell was b ...

spent much time at the college and

Willard Livingstone Beard Willard Livingstone Beard (; Pinyin: ''Bì Yìzhī''; Foochow Romanized: ''Bĭ Ék-dĭ''; February 5, 1865 – April 15, 1947) was an American missionary serving under the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in Fuzhou, China. ...

led it from 1912 to 1927. Having merged other smaller colleges in Fuzhou, it became the main forerunner of Fuzhou No.5 Middle School in 1952, which resumed the former Chinese name of Fuzhou Gezhi High School in 1992. Universities and colleges in Fujian Christian colleges in China Education in Fuzhou {{China-struct-stub