The Political Obstacles to Missionary Success in China
Author | : Alexander Michie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1901 |
Genre | : Missions |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Alexander Michie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1901 |
Genre | : Missions |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Alexander Michie |
Publisher | : Legare Street Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-07-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781022127852 |
This book delves into the political challenges that hindered the success of Christian missionaries in China, providing insight into both the Chinese and Western perspectives during a time of major cultural clashes. Michie's writing explores the nuances of religious conversion and diplomacy that often had conflicting interests, as well as the broader historical context of imperial China and the Western powers of the time. A fascinating read for anyone interested in the dynamics of cross-cultural interactions and religious diplomacy. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author | : Alexander Michie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 1891 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Daniel Eckert |
Publisher | : GRIN Verlag |
Total Pages | : 9 |
Release | : 2008-09-18 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 3640169867 |
Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 2,00, University of Regensburg (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Hauptseminar US Foreign Policy, language: English, abstract: By 1900, some one thousand American Protestant missionaries wanted to convert the Chinese population to Christianity, but were frustrated because of the growing Chinese hostility towards strangers and because of the cultural gap, which seemed to be too great to overcome. Missionaries also pointed out Chinese backwardness by stressing typical traditions and customs like the superiority of men over women. A political circumstance for the missionaries` work was the then ongoing decline of the Qing Dynasty, the defeat in the Sino-Japanese War at the end of the nineteenth century, and the growing influence of the imperial powers that followed. To protect U.S. commerce in China and to preserve that nation`s independence, the then Secretary of State John Hay sent the imperial powers two notes which became known as the Open Door Policy. That policy is said to have been established because of the pressure of both economic and religious interest groups. But how did American missionaries interact with the Chinese people in daily life? How strong were the cultural ties between the two peoples? And finally, to what extend did the women missionaries help to westernize the Chinese value system? The question that overall arouses is about women missionaries, who turned out to be quite effective. In my eyes, their success is based on their female idiosyncracies, in connection with the circumstances under which they worked, namely the situation in America and the one in China. The situation back in the US was rather lucky: In contrast to the difficulties the missionaries had to face in China, missionary women were supported by feminists back home: Female supporters caused interest by stressing the courage and heroism of missionary women. American women also played a role since “[...] societies gathered housewives` extra pennies to add women`s subsidies to the support of the foreign missionary movement.“ (Hunter, 445) Therefore the starting feminist women`s movement and the housewives` financial aid played a very important role for women missionaries in China.
Author | : Oi Ki Ling |
Publisher | : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780838637760 |
This book focuses on the British Protestant missionaries in China in the period from 1945 to 1952. It captures the complexity and contradictions between the missionaries' own perception of their role and Chinese reality. It also examines the missionaries' perception of the nature of Communism and their evaluation of the future prospects under Communist rule. This study offers a stimulating reflection on the missionaries' strategies for propagating the Christian faith, their priorities, and theological as well as cultural assumptions with regard to mission and politics, mission and culture, and mission-church relations during the transition from Guomindang to Communist rule. In general terms, it provides an insight into the idealism and frustrations of missionaries as they wrestled with the changing political context in China.
Author | : Wu Xiaoxin |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 2072 |
Release | : 2017-03-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1315493993 |
A bibliographical guide to the works in American libraries concerning the Christian missionary experience in China.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1903 |
Genre | : Missions |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Xiaoxin Wu |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 2589 |
Release | : 2015-07-17 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1317474678 |
Now revised and updated to incorporate numerous new materials, this is the major source for researching American Christian activity in China, especially that of missions and missionaries. It provides a thorough introduction and guide to primary and secondary sources on Christian enterprises and individuals in China that are preserved in hundreds of libraries, archives, historical societies, headquarters of religious orders, and other repositories in the United States. It includes data from the beginnings of Christianity in China in the early eighth century through 1952, when American missionary activity in China virtually ceased. For this new edition, the institutional base has shifted from the Princeton Theological Seminary (Protestant) to the Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural Relations at the University of San Francisco (Jesuit), reflecting the ecumenical nature of this monumental undertaking.
Author | : Ellsworth C. Carlson |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2020-03-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1684171822 |
This detailed study investigates the early decades (1847–1880) of Protestant missionary work in one of the important provincial capitals of China. Missionary activities are examined from the points of view of the missionaries themselves, of the British and American consuls in Foochow, and of the Chinese officials in Foochow and in the Prefectural and District Cities around. The author gives careful consideration to the obstacles to missionary success, including sources of conflict between the missionaries and the Chinese. The Wu-shih-shan incident of 1878 in Foochow is given special attention.
Author | : Kwang-Ching Liu |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 1966-07-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1684171520 |
Includes the following papers: The Missionary Contribution to China; Science and Salvation in China: The Life and Work of W.A.P. Martin (1827-1916); Protestant Missions in China, 1877-1890: The Institutionalization of Good Works; The Missionary and Chinese Nationalism; The Missionary and China's Rural Problems ; and also an appendix on articles on missionary subjects published in Papers on China.