Missionaries Arrival to China from Sweden
Kiaohsien
1917 Enlarge
Egron Rinell & Chinese Language Teacher Enlarge
Egron arrived back in China from Sweden via Denmark and the United
States along with other Swedish Baptist missionaries returning to China: Reverend
and Mrs Leander with their daughter Anna-Stina and son Yngve and Miss Nina Fredriksson.
Soon after his arrival Egron became, at only twenty-three
years of age, the principal of the higher education [for all schools
in the mission?]. At that time the schools became coeducational. [Len
- verify this. Chapter 1929 says they became co-educational in that
year]. He also started formal Chinese language lessons. Egron
spoke Chinese, but he needed to improve his formal Chinese, and his
reading of Chinese. [Assumption on my part the Egron started formal
Chinese language lessons. One assume, so esp. considering the photo
on this page. Plus someone else did the same thing. (Oscar?]