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. It attracted a wide and influential Chinese readership throughout its thirty-nine-year run from 1868 to 1907. The Qing reformer

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(康有為) once said of the publication: "I owe my conversion to reform chiefly on the writings of two missionaries, the Rev. Timothy Richard and the Rev. Dr. Young J. Allen." The other name under which the Rev. Allen published the paper was ''Kiao Hwei Sing Pao'' from 1868 to 1874. A Chinese translation of ''

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