Business Card of Ding Lemei
Item
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Title
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Business Card of Ding Lemei
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Identifier
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SEFA_012
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Description
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Formal portrait of Ding Lemei on the front of his business card, which also included his name and place of residence in Chinese characters. David Crockett Graham reports that Ding worked with him at an enquirers meeting in Suifu in 1914. So he was in West China when the Simpsons were, although we don't know exactly when and where they encountered him.
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Commentary
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"We recently concluded an enquirers class of three weeks duration. You can judge that there was some work from the fact that I had to give in all eighteen talks. The last three days we had with us Ting Li Mei, who is reputed to be China's best native evangelist. As a result of these meetings five were received into the church and about eighty expressed a desire to enquire into the Christian religion. Ting Li Mei is among the Chinese what John R. Mott and Robert Speer are in America. He makes no unnecessary appeal to the emotions, and never shouts, but he has great power over the Chinese. One is impressed by his good manners." (Graham n/d, 136-137)
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Culture
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Republican Era Chinese
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Medium
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cardboard
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Transcription
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Ding Lemei, Jiaozhou Shandong
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Language
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Chinese
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Source
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Courtesy of Kyle Jolliffe
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Provenance
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Curated by Alice Estabrook Simpson - captions written by her. In the care of Kyle Jolliffe.
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Publisher
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SIUE
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Record Date
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2024-12-16
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Contributor
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Kyle Jolliffe; Cory Willmott
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Type
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Physical Object
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References
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David Crockett Graham. n/d. Autobiography.
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Format
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Photographic print
