Carl Joseph Fast (simplified Chinese: 发士; traditional Chinese: 發士; pinyin: Fāshì; (also written as 法士) Foochow Romanized: Huák-sê̤ṳ; 8 October 1822 – 13 November 1850) was the second Swedish missionary sent to China and the first Protestant missionary murdered in Fuzhou.
On 1 January 1850 Fast arrived in Foochow (today Fuzhou) as the missionary from the Lutheran Lund Missionary Society of Sweden, and was joined by Anders Elgqvist [sv] later that year. The mission they set up in China was short-lived. On 13 November 1850 the two missionaries were brutally assaulted by Chinese pirates when they were coming up the River Min after getting money from a ship. Armed with a pistol Elgqvist survived the attack, but Fast was killed on the spot.
Fast was buried in Fuzhou Nantai. An order was given by then-Fujian Governor Xu Jiyu (徐继畬) to capture the murderers within three days, and the case was finally settled on 18 November, with three criminals brought to justice.
References
- Så började svensk mission i Kina Archived 2012-05-26 at the Wayback Machine (in Swedish)
- ^ Geil, William Edgar (1911). Eighteen Capitals of China. J. B. Lippincott. ISBN 978-1-4021-6618-1.
- Lund Missionary Society (LuMS) Archived May 17, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- Carlson, Ellsworth C. (1974). The Foochow Missionaries 1847-1880. ISBN 978-0-674-30735-3.
- 鸦片战争与徐继畬 Archived July 7, 2011, at the Wayback Machine (in Chinese)
