The Missionary Who Became Chinese

In 1855, twenty-two-year-old Hudson Taylor arrived in Shanghai wearing a black English suit and speaking not a word of Mandarin. The Chinese people regarded him as a foreign curiosity — distant, alien, unapproachable. But Taylor made a radical decision that scandalized his fellow missionaries. He shaved his head, grew the traditional queue, dyed it black, and donned the robes of a Chinese teacher.…