Dai Desheng (1832-1905), an Englishman originally named James Hudson Taylor, was the founder of China Inland Mission.

He was one of the most influential missionaries in China during the 19^th century.

He was born in a Christian family in1832 and was baptized at the age of 17. In 1853 he was sent to Shanghai and tried to adopt Chinese tradition. He became an independent missionary in 1857. In 1865, he founded China Inland Mission. Dai Desheng had ever been to Chinese inland provinces several times to do research and died in Changsha City in Hunan Province in 1905.