Opening of Mukden Hospital, Manchuria, 1907

Photograph of the opening of Mukden Hospital in 1907. A group is gathered in front of the hospital building. Many are wearing traditional Manchu gowns or qipao and others are wearing military uniform. Mukden, or Shenyang, is the capital of Liaoning province in Northeast China. The Scottish missionary Dugald Christie came here in 1884.; This belongs to a series of Church of Scotland Foreign Missions Committee lantern slides relating to the Scottish missionary Dugald Christie. Dugald Christie was born in Glencoe in Scotland and studied medicine under the auspices of the Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society. In 1882, along with his first wife, Elizabeth, he went to Manchuria to work as a medical missionary of the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland. He worked initially in Newchang and later moved to the capital of Mukden where he opened Manchuria’s first hospital in 1884. In 1912 he established Mukden Medical College. Dugald Christie retired in 1923 and died in Edinburgh in 1936