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Thomas Cochrane and the Dragon Throne - Fighting disease, distrust and murderous rebellion in Imperial China (Paperback)
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Thomas Cochrane and the Dragon Throne - Fighting disease, distrust and murderous rebellion in Imperial China (Paperback)
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In 1897 Tom Cochrane, a young, newly-qualified Scottish medical
missionary, arrived with his wife in Chaoyang, Inner Mongolia. For
three years he laboured single-handed in a mud-floored dispensary,
quickly realising his work was a drop in a sea of suffering. He
became seized by the vision of a Western medical college and
teaching hospital in Peking. In 1900 the Boxer Rebellion began.
Rebels roamed the countryside. Their cry was: `Kill the foreigners!
Kill them before breakfast!' Over 30,000 converts were butchered in
months, with hundreds of missionaries. The Cochranes escaped with
their three young sons, but by 1901 Tom was back. In Peking he
practised from mule stables amongst beggars and lepers. A powerful
nobleman befriended him, and in 1903 his intervention brought a
major cholera epidemic under control. The Imperial Grand Eunuch,
right-hand man of the feared Empress Dowager, helped Tom to
petition the Dragon Throne and obtain a substantial grant for his
college. In 1906 he established the Peking Union Medical College.
Today it stands in Beijing, prestigious and respected. Its origins
forgotten, it remains one of countless seeds Christians planted in
China.
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