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Publication Date: 15 Nov 2018 |
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Publisher: SPCK Publishing |
Words: 64700 |
Page Count: 224 |
Author: Andrew E Adam |
ISBN-13: 9780281080366, 9780281080373 |
Thomas Cochrane and the Dragon Throne
Confronting Disease, Distrust and Murderous Rebellion in Imperial China
The story of how Tom Cochrane, a Scottish missionary doctor, struggled to bring the benefits of modern scientific medicine to the vast Chinese Empire.
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In 1900, the Boxer uprising broke out. Fanatics roamed the countryside crying, ‘Kill the foreigners! Kill them before breakfast!’ The Cochranes and their three little boys fled as thirty thousand Christians and hundreds of missionaries were butchered. Undeterred, Tom returned to Peking in 1901 to treat beggars and lepers in converted mule stables.
After bringing a major cholera epidemic under control, he won allies at the imperial court. With the help of the chief eunuch, he gained the support of the dreaded Empress Dowager. In 1906, Cochrane established the Union Medical College in Peking, China’s first Western medical school. It still stands today, a prestigious academic centre, its missionary origins forgotten, but it is one of countless seeds planted by Christians in China.