As of 1937 there were 254 mission hospitals in China

China

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, and more than half of these were eventually destroyed by Japanese bombing during World War II

World War II

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 or otherwise due to the Second Sino-Japanese War

Second Sino-Japanese War

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 or the Chinese Civil War

Chinese Civil War

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. After World War II most of these hospitals were at least partially rehabilitated, and eventually passed to the control of the Government of the People's Republic of China

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, but are still functioning as hospitals.

• Amoy Missionary Hospital
• The Bethel Hospital in Shanghai (1920)
• Bresee Memorial Hospital (1925), named in honour of Phineas Bresee located in Da Ming, Hebei. Operated by the Church of the Nazarene
  Church of the Nazarene
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• Borden Memorial Hospital
  Borden Memorial Hospital
  Borden Memorial Hospital is a hospital in Lanzhou, Gansu, China.It was founded by the China Inland Mission, from money donated by the Borden family after the death of William Whiting Borden...
  
  
• (Canton Ophthalmic Hospital) Guangzhou Boji Hospital
  Guangzhou Boji Hospital
  The Guangzhou Boji Hospital, Ophthalmic Hospital in Canton also known as the Canton Pok Tsai Hospital was a hospital in Guangzhou, Guangdong founded in November 4, 1835 by Peter Parker as an Ophthalmic hospital. In about 1854, John Glasgow Kerr became its director. In 1886 the hospital education...
  
   (1835) Peter Parker (physician)
  Peter Parker (physician)
  Peter Parker was an American physician and a missionary who introduced Western medical techniques into Qing Dynasty China. It was said that Parker "opened China to the gospel at the point of a lancet."- Early life :...
  
  
• Chengdu Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital (1894)
• Chungking Canadian Mission Hospital (1896)
• Chungking Methodist Union Hospital (1892)
• Love and Mercy Hospital (1887) (Qingjiangpu) - Absalom Sydenstricker
  Absalom Sydenstricker
  Absalom Sydenstricker was an American Presbyterian missionary to China from 1880 to 1931. The Sydenstricker log house at the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace in Hillsboro, West Virginia was Absalom's early childhood home....
  
   (father of Pearl Buck) and later occupied by L. Nelson Bell
  L. Nelson Bell
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• Kathleen Mallory Hospital for Women in Laichowfu (1901)
• Kiating Canadian Mission Hospital (1894)
• Kwang-Chi Hospital
  Kwang-Chi Hospital
  Kwang Chi Hospital was a hospital established by the U.K. Church Missionary Society in Hangzhou , China in 1871. It is one of the earliest hospitals in China. The hospital is in existence today and is renamed to the 2nd Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine.From 1885 until...
  
   (1871)
• Lester Chinese Hospital (1844) William Lockhart (surgeon)
  William Lockhart (surgeon)
  William Lockhart was a Protestant Christian missionary who served with the London Missionary Society during the late Qing Dynasty in China. In 1844, he founded the first western hospital in Shanghai, which was known as the Chinese Hospital...
  
  
• Louella Roach Alexander Hospital for Women in Pingtu (1890)
• Luchow Canadian Mission Hospital (1909)
• Mayfield-Tyzzer Hospital for Men in Laichowfu (1901)
• Methodist Hospital in Kaifeng, Henan
• Hospital in Ningbo (William Parker) (1843)
• Oxner Memorial Hospital for Men in Pingtu (1890)
• Penghsien Canadian Mission Hospital
• Ronghsien Canadian Mission Hospital
• St. Andrew's Hospital in Beijing
  St. Andrew's Hospital in Beijing
  St. Andrew's Hospital in Beijing, China.It was founded by the Anglican Church of China....
  
  
• St. Barnabas's Hospital in Beijing
  St. Barnabas's Hospital in Beijing
  St. Barnabas's Hospital is a hospital in Beijing, China founded by the Anglican Church of China....
  
  
• St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Shanghai
• St. Luke's Hospital in Shanghai (1866)
• St. Peter's Hospital in Wuchang
• St. Stephen's Hospital in Beijing
  St. Stephen's Hospital in Beijing
  St. Stephen's Hospital in Beijing, China.It was founded by the Anglican Church of China....
  
  
• Tzeliutsing Canadian Mission Hospital (1906)
• United Church of Canada Mission Hospital for Men (1892)
• University Hospital of West China Union University (1942)
• Warren Memorial Hospital in Hwanghsien Dr. T.W. Ayers
• Zicong Methodist Union Hospital (1908)