Norman Howard Cliff

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Norman Howard Cliff (1925–2007) was a British Protestant author who wrote about Christianity and the history of Protestant missions in China.

Biography

Cliff was born in 1925 in Yantai (formerly, Chefoo) to Howard and Mary Cliff, both pharmacists who were working as missionaries with the China Inland Mission (CIM). As part of the Chefoo School, a boarding school of the CIM, Cliff was interned by the Japanese at the Weixian Internment Camp from 1943 until 1945, when the camp was freed by American paratroopers.^[1]

Cliff later went on to pursue a B.A. from the University of South Africa and a B.Com. from Rhodes University. He worked as a minister and an accountant for the United Reformed Church in South Africa, before returning to Britain due to poor health.^[1] Back in the UK, Cliff earned an MPhil at the Open University in 1983, writing a thesis on the theology of Watchman Nee,^[2] and a PhD at Buckingham University in 1995, writing a thesis on the history of Protestant missions in Shandong Province.^[3]

Works authored

Prisoners of the Samurai: Japanese Civilian Camps, 1941-1945
Fierce the Conflict (2001)
White Cliffs of Hangzhou
Life and Theology of Watchman Nee : Including a Study of the Little Flock
A Heart for China: The Gripping Story of Benjamin Broomhall
A Flame of Sacred Love
Courtyard of the Happy Way

References

^ ^a ^b Horne, Estelle Cliffe. "The Life and Testimony of Norman Howard Cliff, 1925-2007". Weihsien. Archived from the original on 22 August 2016. Retrieved 7 February 2018.
^ Cliff, Norman Howard (1983). The Life and Theology of Watchman Nee, Including a Study of the Little Flock Movement Which he Founded (MPhil thesis). Open University.
^ Cliff, Norman Howard (1995). A history of the Protestant movement in Shandong Province, China, 1859-1951 (PhD thesis). University of Buckingham. ProQuest 304301557.

[weihsien-1] Horne, Estelle Cliffe. "The Life and Testimony of Norman Howard Cliff, 1925-2007". Weihsien. Archived from the original on 22 August 2016. Retrieved 7 February 2018.

[2] Cliff, Norman Howard (1983). The Life and Theology of Watchman Nee, Including a Study of the Little Flock Movement Which he Founded (MPhil thesis). Open University.

[3] Cliff, Norman Howard (1995). A history of the Protestant movement in Shandong Province, China, 1859-1951 (PhD thesis). University of Buckingham. ProQuest 304301557.

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v t e Protestant missions to China
Background	Protestantism in China Protestantism in Sichuan Chinese history Missions timeline Christianity in China Nestorians Jesuits Protestant missions in China 1807–1953
People	David Howard Adeney Mary Ann Aldersey Roland Allen Thomas J. Arnold Gladys Aylward Joseph Beech John Birch William Jones Boone Pearl S. Buck John Burdon Thomas Cochrane Hunter Corbett Jonathan Goforth Frederick Graves Karl Gützlaff Francis Hanson Laura Askew Haygood Elizabeth G. K. Hewat Jennie V. Hughes Robert A. Jaffray Carl C. Jeremiassen Griffith John Walter Judd James Legge Eric Liddell Robert Samuel Maclay Lottie Moon Robert Morrison George Moule Gideon Nye David Paton Karl Ludvig Reichelt Timothy Richard Issachar Jacox Roberts Charles Scott Cambridge Seven George Smith Vincent John Stanton John and Betty Stam John Leighton Stuart Elwood Gardner Tewksbury Hudson Taylor Thomas Torrance William C. White (more missionaries)
Missionary agencies	American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions American Methodist Episcopal Mission Canadian Methodist Mission China Inland Mission Church Mission Society London Missionary Society National Christian Council US Presbyterian Mission Protestant Episcopal Church Mission List of Protestant missionary societies in China (1807–1953)
Colleges and universities	United Board University of Shanghai Cheeloo University Ginling College University of Nanking Soochow University Yenching University St. John's University Hangchow University Fukien Christian University Lingnan University College of Yale-in-China Huachung University West China Union University Peking Union Medical College Methodist Episcopal Church Hwa Nan College English Presbyterian Mission Chung Hua Sheng Kung Hui Oberlin Shansi Memorial Association Reformed Church in the United States
Impact	Bible translations into Chinese Medical missions in China Manchurian revival Chinese Christian colleges Chinese hymnody Chinese Roman Type Minnan Roman Type Foochow Roman Type Anti-footbinding Anti-opium
Pivotal events	Taiping Rebellion First Opium War Second Opium War Unequal treaty Yangzhou riot Tianjin Massacre Kucheng Massacre Boxer Crisis 1911 Revolution Chinese Civil War Second Sino-Japanese War People's Republic
Publications	The Chinese Repository Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal The Christian Occupation of China Journal of the West China Border Research Society The West China Missionary News

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