Robert Morrison and the Protestant Plan for China Costas M. Stamatopoulos

Robert Morrison and the Protestant Plan for China Costas M. StamatopoulosSent alone to China by the London Missionary Society in 1807, Robert Morrison (1782 1834) was one of the earliest Protestant missionaries in East Asia. During some 27 years in China, Macau and Malacca, he worked as a translator for the East India Company and founded an academy for converts and missionaries; independently, he translated the New Testament into Chinese and compiled the first Chinese English dictionary. In the process, he was building the

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