Talk:Huzhou

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Kindly bear it in mind and don't repeat the Chinese text and romanizations in the lead when it's already in the infobox. If any additional languages need to be added, see {{Chinese}}. — LlywelynII 14:16, 20 July 2014 (UTC)

Cleanup needed

Obviously the page is in a bad way. Kindly help remove the Chamber of Commerce fluff where you can. This digression may merit its own page but obviously needs to have the Facebook page-sourcing replaced:

Huzhou General Hospital

Dr. Fred P. Manget (1880-1979) went from the U.S. state of [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] to [[Shanghai]] as a medical missionary in 1909. In 1912, he rented a building in Huzhou to establish a hospital that could hold about 30 beds. At the end of World War I, Dr. Manget returned to Shanghai and discussed with the representative of [[The Rockefeller Foundation]] in China about the Foundation’s intention to spread the practice of Western medicine in China. After much negotiation, the Chinese Government agreed to provide {{convert|9|acres|0|abbr=on}} of land, while the Foundation provided US$30,000 to build a hospital in Huzhou. The remaining needed funds were provided by the [[Southern Methodist Church]] and the Northern Baptist Church in the USA. Thus, the small hospital with a small rented building and one doctor was transformed into Huzhou General Hospital (湖州醫院), which had {{convert|9|acres|0|abbr=on}} of land, over 100 nurses and 100 other personnel, in addition to the most modern medical facilities in China. The facilities included a chemistry laboratory, an X-ray facility and a Nursing School. Later, Japanese troops occupied Huzhou General Hospital. Luckily, the family members of Dr. Manget were able to leave China for the USA. However, Dr. Manget was not willing to leave China. When he saw how badly the Japanese troops treated the Chinese people, he even dared to point out the wrongdoing of the Japanese troops. As a consequence, he was arrested by the Japanese troops, who wrongly accused him of espionage. Later, the Japanese troops released him. Under the strict control of the Japanese troops, Huzhou General Hospital reopened and Dr. Manget worked there for three and a half years.<ref>Nona B. McMichael (Mrs. Robert S.), "The story of Dr. Fred Prosper Manget", the Woman's Auxiliary of the Bibb County Medical Society, Georgia, April 4, 1963 Meeting, Macon, GA, 1963.</ref><ref>Rebecca Chan Chung, Deborah Chung and Cecilia Ng Wong, "Piloted to Serve", 2012</ref><ref>https://www.facebook.com/PilotedToServe</ref>

 — LlywelynII 14:21, 20 July 2014 (UTC)

Didn't notice this at first but the insanity was hidden in the footnotes. American missionary work may merit mention within the history section but it doesn't deserve separate treatment until the rest of the town's 2000+ year history is dealt with. It also doesn't need the book's passage fully quoted in its footnote, let alone badly, let alone twice. Also, remember to clean up your Google Books URLs:

American [[Baptist]] missionaries operated in Huzhou during the [[Qing dynasty]].<ref>{{cite book |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=LgbPAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA315 |title=Baptist missionary magazine, Volume 73 |volume=LXXIII |year=1893 |author=American Baptist Foreign Mission Society |editor= |publisher=American Baptist Missionary Union |edition= |location=Boston |isbn= |quote=approval of the native magistrates, and with the best of titles, accomplished without any help from the consul. This gives our mission in Huchau a thoroughly legal standing, marks the changed temper of the people, and is a call to American Baptists to prepare for future harvests in this populous plain. Thus far no Huchau natives have been baptized; but we have a few inquirers and about fifteen regular attendants on Sundays, besides, of course, large numbers of occasional hearers. Our Needy Parish. — Huchau Prefecture is forty miles by fifty. Besides us, there is only one other resident missionary in the territory. There are a million idolaters. There are hundreds- of villages never yet visited by a missionary or native preacher. Proper gospel preach ing requires repeated visits to the same place. We are overwhelmed with the vast number of opportunities. What shall we do? Get native preachers from the older stations? £Io, for they do not succeed in learning the Huchau dialect. You friends at home must help us pray that God may raise up native Huchau preachers. Missionaries are needed first to gather a body of converts from, which to select the leaders. To open for us speedily the hearts and homes of many, send us a missionary physician. Send us several families for extension work. In this prefecture, besides other inviting fields, are two walled cities, wholly unoccupied, where we ought to place missionaries at once — Chang-hing and Hiao-fung. Hangchau Chapel. — This is on a busy street in the growing capital of the province. Scores of hearers daily listen to the message of the native preacher. Sometimes I help him in a series of evening meetings. For twenty and more years our mission has done its share of general evangelization and of instruction of inquirers. But when it comes to joining a church, the Chinaman is not peculiar in going where there are the most attractions. Therefore, if we intend to work in Hangchau, there should be a Baptist missionary there at once. Otherwise we should sell out .the chapel and lot, and retire. Although four other missions work in the city, there is ample room for us among eight hundred thousand people. Something should be done soon. For our work to exist so long at this poor dying rate is not creditable to American Baptists or honoring to Christ. Shang-pah Church. — Shang-pah (or Zong-pah), forty miles southwest of Huchau, is the largest town in Wu kang County. Being in Huchau Prefecture, the work in that county formerly connected with the Shaohing station is now superintended from Huchau. We own a good chapel. The church has about thirty members, mostly farmers. The preacher, now supported by the Missionary Union, ought to be supported by the Christians. How to get them to do it is the problem. Their characters, as V rule, show evidence of divine grace; but none are as earnestly seeking as they ought for the spiritual welfare of their tens of thousands of heathen neighbors. We all need more of the Spirit's power, and we are seeking that in faith. But the more prayer ascends from your hearts in America for us, the more power shall -we receive for the help of men and the glory of God. KINHWA. Rev. Alfred Copp and wife, Miss Clara E. Righter, Miss Annie S. Young. Rev. Joseph S. Adams and wife, absent on furlough. Mr. Copp reports : — As I cannot be in Kinhwa at present, much against my wish, as the students were in the city when we left, I am making the best of my time here in Shaohing by selling books and tracts in a regular canvass we are making of the city, and in helping to carry on the chapel preaching at Mr. Gould's two places here in this city. We are having a good time selling Scriptures from house to house, and a pretty good time preaching in the street chapels. What a large city this is! Perhaps some three or four hundred thousand inhabitants. There are said to be seventy thousand persons engaged in making paper, etc., for idol worship. Oh, if you could |page=315 |pages= |date= |accessdate=1 March 2012 }}(the University of Wisconsin - Madison)(Digitized Jan 14, 2009)</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=X5dVAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA3-PA137 |title=Annual report |volume=76–79 |year=1890 |author=American Baptist Foreign Mission Society |editor= |publisher= |edition= |location=Boston |isbn= |quote=approval of the native magistrates, and with the best of titles, accomplished without any help from the consul. This gives our mission in Huchau a thoroughly legal standing, marks the changed temper of the people, and is a call to American Baptists to prepare for future harvests in this populous plain. Thus far no Huchau natives have been baptized; but we have a few inquirers and about fifteen regular attendants on Sundays, besides, of course, large numbers of occasional hearers. Our Xeedy Parish.— Huchau Prefecture is forty miles by fifty. Besides us, there is only one other resident missionary in the territory. There are a million idolaters. There are hundreds of villages never yet visited by a missionary or native preacher. Proper gospel preaching requires repeated visits to the same place. We are overwhelmed with the vast number of opportunities. What shall we do? Get native preachers from the older stations? No, for they do not succeed in learning the Huchau dialect. You friends at home must help us pray that God may raise up native Huchau preachers. Missionaries are needed first to gather a body of converts from which to select the leaders. To open for us speedily the hearts and homes of many, send us a missionary physician. Send us several families for extension work. In this prefecture, besides other inviting fields, are two walled cities, wholly unoccupied, where we ought to place missionaries at once — Chang-hing and Hiao-fung. Hangchau Chapel.— This is on a busy street in the growing capital of the province. Scores of hearers daily listen to the message of the native preacher. Sometimes I help him in a series of evening meetings. For twenty and more years our mission has done its share of general evangelization and of instruction of inquirers. But when it comes to joining'a church, the Chinaman is not peculiar in going where there are the most attractions. Therefore, if we intend to work in Hangchau, there should be a Baptist missionary there at once. Otherwise we should sell out the chapel and lot, and retire. Although four other missions work in the city, there is ample room for us among eight hundred thousand people. Something should be done soon. For our work to exist so long at this poor dying rate is not creditable to American Baptists or honoring to Christ. Shang-pah Church.— Shang-pah (or Zong-pah), forty miles southwest of Huchau, is the largest town in Wu kang County. Being in Huchau Prefecture, the work in that county formerly connected with the Shaohing station is now superintended from Huchau. We own a good chapel. The church has about thirty members, mostly farmers. The preacher, now supported by the Missionary Union, ought to be supported by the Christians. How to get them to do it is the problem. Their characters, as a rule, show evidence of divine grace; but none are as earnestly seeking as they ought for the spiritual welfare of their tens of thousands of heathen neighbors. We all need more of the Spirit's power, and we are seeking that in faith. But the more prayer ascends from your hearts in America for us, the more power shall we receive for the help of men and the glory of God. KINHWA. Rev. Alfred Copp and wife, Miss Clara E. Righter, Miss Annie S. Young. Rev. Joseph S. Adams and wife, absent on furlough. Mr. Copp reports : — As I cannot be in Kinhwa at present, much against my wish, as the students were in the city when we left, I am making the best of my time here in Shaohing by selling books and tracts in a regular canvass we are making of the city, and in helping to carry on the chapel preaching at Mr. Gould's two places here in this city. We are having a good time selling Scriptures from house to house, and a pretty good time preaching in the street chapels. What a large city this is! Perhaps some three or four hundred thousand inhabitants. There are said to be seventy thousand persons engaged in making paper, etc., for idol worship. Oh, if you could |page=137 |pages= |date=May 23–24, 1890 |accessdate=1 March 2012 }}(the New York Public Library)(Digitized Feb 4, 2011)</ref>

 — LlywelynII 14:34, 20 July 2014 (UTC)