"Boxer dress - Arms and Flag". Image of Boxer with a flag, spear and a decorative shield. The Boxers, or the Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists, was a secret society founded in the northern provinces of China. The Boxers opposed Western imperialism and Christianity and were responsible for the Boxer rebellion in China between 1898 and 1901. This belongs to a series of Church of Scotland Foreign Missions Committee lantern slides relating to the Scottish missionary Dugald Christie. Dugald Christie was born in Glencoe in Scotland and studied medicine under the auspices of the Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society. In 1882, along with his first wife, Elizabeth, he went to Manchuria to work as a medical missionary of the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland. He worked initially in Newchang and later moved to the capital of Mukden where he opened Manchuria’s first hospital in 1884. In 1912 he established Mukden Medical College. Dugald Christie retired in 1923 and died in Edinburgh in 1936.
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