Li Shigong (left), Chen Laoyi (center) and pioneering Protestant missionary Robert Morrison (right) translating the Bible into Chinese. This engraving by W. Holl, c1850s, is based on George Chinnery's now-lost c1828 original painting, which was burned in a fire in 1874.

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Location: China
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