West Kweichow Mission (1927-1945)

Abstract

The West Kweichou Mission 贵(黔)西区会 originated in 1927 when a reorganization of territory took place involving the Kweichow 贵州 (later Guizhou) Province. Church leaders redrew the boundaries of the West Kweichow Mission to span portions of Guizhou, Yunnan, and Sichuan Provinces That is, the mission now included the part of Guizhou Province west of Zunyi 遵义 and Guiyang 贵阳 plus the northeast portion of neighboring Yunnan Province and the land south of the Yangztse River in Sichuan Province. The headquarters were located in the south of the newly-formed territory at Pichieh 毕节 (Bijie). The new administrative organization represented a further development in mission advance in central China, extending southwest into East Sichuan and Guizhou Provinces on the road to Yunnan Province in the extreme south.