John Stronach

John Stronach (1810-1888), younger brother of Alexander Stronach, was a Protestant Christian missionary who served with the London Missionary Society during the late Qing Dynasty China, working primarily at Xiamen [Amoy]. Stronach participated in the translation of the Bible into Chinese.

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gollark: ++experimental_qa Iron How ironic is this?

gollark: And the TFLite conversion is nontrivial because it has to actually observe the model to quantize it.

gollark: I have no idea if ALBERT uses Coral TPU-supported operations, also.

gollark: Hmm. It seems like you would have to convert the Pytorch model this uses to a TensorFlow model to a TFLite one to the Coral TPU format.

gollark: Low confidence level suggests that it is not.

References

Alexander Wylie (1867). Memorials of Protestant Missionaries to the Chinese. Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press.
Broomhall, Alfred (1982). Hudson Taylor and China's Open Century: Barbarians at the Gates. London: Hodder and Stoughton.

Notes

Protestant missions to China
Background	Protestantism in China Chinese history Missions timeline Christianity in China Nestorians Jesuits Protestant missions in China 1807–1953
People	David Howard Adeney Roland Allen Thomas J. Arnold Gladys Aylward William Jones Boone John Birch Pearl S. Buck John Burdon Hedley Bunton Thomas Cochrane Hunter Corbett Jonathan Goforth Frederick Graves Karl Gützlaff Francis Hanson Laura Askew Haygood Elizabeth G. K. Hewat Jennie V. Hughes Robert A. Jaffray Carl C. Jeremiassen Griffith John Walter Judd James Legge Eric Liddell Robert Samuel Maclay Lottie Moon Robert Morrison George Moule Gideon Nye David Paton Karl Ludvig Reichelt Timothy Richard Issachar Jacox Roberts Charles Scott Cambridge Seven George Smith Vincent John Stanton John Leighton Stuart Hudson Taylor Thomas Torrance William C. White (more missionaries)
Missionary agencies	OMF International/China Inland Mission LMS ABCFM CMS MEM PECM US Presbyterian Mission National Christian Council (more agencies)
Impact	Bible translations into Chinese Medical missions in China Manchurian revival Chinese Christian colleges Chinese hymnody Chinese Roman Type Minnan Roman Type Foochow Roman Type Anti-footbinding Anti-opium
Pivotal events	Taiping Rebellion First Opium War Second Opium War Unequal treaty Yangzhou riot Tianjin Massacre Kucheng Massacre Boxer Crisis 1911 Revolution Chinese Civil War Second Sino-Japanese War People's Republic "The Christian Manifesto"
Chinese Protestants	T. C. Chao Feng Yuxiang Liang Fa Lin Shengben Huang Guangcai Wat Ngong (Qu Yaang) Samuel Lamb Watchman Nee Sun Yat-sen John Sung Wang Ming-Dao Xi Shengmo Allen Yuan
Publications	Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal

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