Rikard Nyström (1884–1943) was a
Swedish
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missionary. He served with the
Mission Union of Sweden
The Mission Covenant Church of Sweden ( – until 2003 'Swedish Mission Covenant'), founded in 1878, was a Swedish evangelical free church in the Radical Pietist tradition. It was the second-largest Protestant denomination in Sweden, after the ...
in
Chinese Turkestan
Chinese Turkestan or Chinese Turkistan, is a geographical term or historical region corresponding to the region of the Tarim Basin in Southern Xinjiang (south of the Tian Shan mountain range) or Xinjiang as a whole which was under the rule of ...
(present day Xinjiang).
External links
Mission and Change in Eastern Turkestan(English translation of select chapters of ''Mission och revolution i Centralasien'')
Bibliography
*''Notes about the Tungan people'', 1937
*''The unrest in Eastern Turkestan'', 1935
1884 births
1943 deaths
Swedish Protestant missionaries
Protestant missionaries in China
Christian missionaries in Central Asia
Swedish expatriates in China
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