Hangzhou
Capital of Zhejiang province in eastern China. The first party of the China Inland Mission arrived here in November 1866.
The history of the China Inland Mission published in the 1890s describes Hangzhou as the capital of the province of Zhejiang, about a hundred and eighty miles south-west of Shanghai, a city of nearly half a million people then recovering from the Taiping rebellion. Three missionary families of other societies were living there, the first having begun work in 1864 (Guinness, Story of the China Inland Mission vol. 1, pp. 288–290). James Hudson Taylor and the party that had sailed in the Lammermuir reached the city at the end of November 1866 and were lent a house (Guinness, Story of the China Inland Mission vol. 1, pp. 293–295). See Hudson Taylor and the China Inland Mission.
What happened here
- 25 June 1865, firm dateHudson Taylor and the China Inland Mission
Hudson Taylor, a missionary invalided home from China, resolves on Brighton beach to lead a new mission to the inland provinces. The China Inland Mission accepts workers without restriction as to denomination, guarantees no income and makes no personal appeals for money.