Editing Ying Wa College (section)

===Early period (1818–1858)===
Apart from its work as a school, the college also trained evangelists and pastors. Amongst them, former student Rev. Hoh Fuk Tong ({{lang|zh-hant|何福堂}}) was made pastor in 1846. He preached in [[Foshan]] and [[Guangzhou|Canton]] to his fellow Chinese people. [[Liang Fa]] (also known as Leung Faat), who was a craftsman in the printing centre of the college, also heeded the call to preach Gospel.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bohr |first1=P. Richard |title=Liang Fa: Pioneer Chinese Protestant Evangelist |journal=Studies in World Christianity |date=November 2021 |volume=27 |issue=3 |pages=253–279 |doi=10.3366/swc.2021.0352 |s2cid=244606026 |url=https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/swc.2021.0352}}</ref>

A printing press was set up within the school premises to publish the Chinese Bible and other Chinese Christian tracts and publications, well before China was opened by the Opium Wars.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Dunch |first1=Ryan |title=Protestant Publishing in Chinese at the Anglo-Chinese College, Malacca, 1818–1843 |journal=Studies in World Christianity |date=November 2021 |volume=27 |issue=3 |pages=280–300 |doi=10.3366/swc.2021.0353 |s2cid=244614533 |url=https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/swc.2021.0353}}</ref> In 1853, the first Chinese newspaper, ''[[Chinese Serial]]'', was published by the college's printing press.

[[Image: James Legge missionary.jpg|thumb|right|Legge and his three Chinese students]]
In 1840, [[James Legge]] became headmaster. Two years later, [[British Hong Kong|Hong Kong]] was ceded to the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|United Kingdom]] under the [[Treaty of Nanking]]. The [[London Missionary Society]] thus decided to move the college to Hong Kong in 1843. The school building was situated at the junction of [[Staunton Street]] and [[Aberdeen Street]]. At that time, Christian churches had not yet been officially established. Thus the college was used as a religious centre where Christians assembled to worship. Since the London Missionary Society deemed that the college should focus more on the training of evangelists after the relocation, the college was renamed "The Theological Seminary of the London Missionary Society in China." When Legge returned to Britain in 1846, he brought with him three of his Chinese students. Legge and the students were received by [[Queen Victoria]].<ref name="legge"/>

Legge held his headship until he was appointed by the Hong Kong Government in 1864 to help prepare for the opening of [[Queen's College, Hong Kong|Queen's College]]. Due to the lack of a successor as well as political instability, the college ceased to operate at the end of 1856 and teaching ended in 1858. But the printing press continued its work until 1870 when it was sold to [[Wang Tao (19th century)|Wang Tao]] and [[Wong Shing]].<ref name="legge">{{cite journal |last1=Pfister |first1=Lauren F. |title=The Legacy of James Legge |journal=International Bulletin of Missionary Research |date=April 1998 |volume=22 |issue=2 |pages=77–82 |doi=10.1177/239693939802200209 |s2cid=149126366 |url=http://www.internationalbulletin.org/issues/1998-02/1998-02-077-pfister.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200725142253/http://www.internationalbulletin.org/issues/1998-02/1998-02-077-pfister.pdf |archive-date=2020-07-25 |url-status=usurped}}</ref>