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Updated: May 9, 2025
In the twentieth year of the period Wan-li, there came, among the thousands of students who gathered at Peking for the examinations, a certain Li, whose first name was Chia and his surname Ch'ien-hsi, or "Purified-a-thousand times." His family were from Shao-hsing fu in Chekiang; his father was Judge of the province of Kang-su; and Li himself was the eldest of three brothers.
Early in the eighteenth century missionary activity was prohibited not for religious but for political reasons, and only under the pressure of the Capitulations in the nineteenth century were the missionaries enabled to resume their labours. 14 External and internal perils Towards the end of the reign of Wan-li, about 1620, the danger that threatened the empire became more and more evident.
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