A documentary about five missionaries to China was broadcast in a Phoenix flagship program this week.
The five-episode documentary titled "Finding Missionaries" presented the stories of William Edward Soothill, Samuel Pollard, Thomas Torrance, John Leighton Stuart, and Augustin Henninghaus.
The program started with,"We will offer you the stories of five missionaries in the week to come. Regarding themselves as the messengers of the gospel to China, they were freaks and foreign devils of shady antecedents and with dubious motives in the eyes of Chinese people at the time... Loathing and alert against each other in the beginning, the missionaries and Chinese people experienced a long process and great changes to gradually combine with and understand each other. The past ideological propaganda has intentionally marginalized the stories of missionaries in China for a long time, so many stories have been submerged in the depths of time. Some have become deformed or faded."
- Translated by Karen Luo
