The Bird in the Bamboo Cage – Facts

The characters of the book are the teachers and children from the Cheffoo school in the Shantung Province. The Chefoo School, also known as Protestant Collegiate School or China Inland Mission School, was a Christian boarding school established in 1881 by the China Inland Mission in Shandong province in northern China. Its purpose was to provide an education for the children of foreign missionaries and the foreign business and diplomatic communities in China.

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