Chefoo School was set up by Mary's great-grandfather, James Hudson Taylor, and taught the children of Western missionaries in China The China Inland Mission, now renamed OMF International ...

Ever since the Japanese occupation of Shantung, Chefoo has been one of the principal ports of call of coastwise British steamers. Chefoo exports famed Shantung lace and most of the hairnets worn by U.

A few months earlier, I must confess, I had not heard of Chefoo. Then I made the astonishing discovery that my English great-grandparents had moved from Hong Kong to northern China in 1873 ...