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The history of Ying Wa College started from the evangelical mission of London Missionary Society (LMS) in the early nineteenth century. When Rev. Robert Morrison of LMS, the first Protestant missionary in China, decided to sail east in 1807, Ying Wa College was destined to be the first Anglo-Chinese school in the world. Together with Rev. William Milne, he founded Ying Wa College in Malacca in 1818, with “the reciprocal cultivation of English and Chinese literature and the diffusion of Christianity” as its prime mission. In the early phase, in the face of a myriad of challenges like shortfalls of enrolled students, resistance to Christian faith and the instability of financial resources, Ying Wa College strove to establish itself as an indi