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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Hunter_%28missionary%29
On 27 March 1906 he moved to Urumqi (Tihwafu), Xinjiang. The next forty years he spent mostly traveling. He traveled all throughout Xinjiang, and even went as far as Khovd. During his travels he preached in Kazakh, Uyghur, Manchu, Mongolian, Nogai, Arabic, and Chinese, and distributed gospel literature in those languages. He would also visit and encourage a 200 family settlement of White Russians who had settled in Gulja.
George W. Hunter noted that Turki Muslims (Uyghurs) would prostitute their daughters, while such a thing would never happen among Tungan Muslims (Chinese Muslims), which was why Turkic prostitutes were common around the country.[1]
Under Sheng Shicai's regime, he was arrested under false charges, and locked up in a Soviet prison cell in Ürümqi for thirteen months and subjected to various tortures. Finally he was released, and escorted out of the city. He then went to Lanchow, Gansu, and later on farther west to Kanchow, hoping that when Xinjiang opened up again, he would be ready to go back.
He died in Zhangye (then Kanchow), Gansu, on 20 December
Oct 18, 2015 07:29 PM
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