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Western Missionaries in Modern China: From Ministers of Foreign Teachings to Agents of Imperialism?
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Western missionaries working for the proselytization of Christianity during the early twentieth century were predominantly representatives of a new worldview that put scientific objectives on a par with the aim of converting the Chinese to their faith. Conventional wisdom stipulates that the 1920s brought about a sea change in public attitudes, transforming the missionaries’ perceived role in China, as well as in the colonized world, into “agents of imperialism.” This article posits that this may well have been the case within the ranks of a radicalizing and ideologically reorienting intellectual elite. However, the majority of the population within the Republic of China held a variety of views, from deep-rooted suspicion (“Western clerics as alien magicians”) to high esteem (“clerics as medical experts”). The May Fourth Movement’s axiom of a monolithic, “patriotic,” and “scientific” opposition to the Western missionaries thus needs to be replaced by a more nuanced interpretation.
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The article argues that Western missionaries in late imperial and Republican China were often opposed by Qing authorities less as agents of foreign imperialism than as perceived threats to Confucian orthopraxy, public morality, and anti-heresy law. It contends that while nationalist elites later cast missionaries as imperialist intruders, many ordinary Chinese valued missionary medicine, schooling, and healing, so the missionary legacy is best understood through local perceptions rather than a single teleological narrative.
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- Qing objections to Christianity were concrete: missionaries were accused of endangering public morality, violating anti-heresy legislation, aiding potential rebels, and competing with indigenous healers and sectarian movements; the state’s core condemnation was framed around “wizardry” rather than imperialism until the late nineteenth century.
- After the 1724 Yongzheng prohibition on unauthorized proselytization, Christianity shifted from urban centers to the rural periphery, where nonordained local clerics sustained communities; Zhili and the North China Plain absorbed many Christian refugees during Qianlong’s reign.
- Medical missionary activity was a major point of contact and conflict: in 1806 Sichuan missionaries reported nearly 7,000 baptisms of foundlings, compared with 1,371 adult christenings and 1,760 infant christenings; Catholic healing led to bans on selling medicines, while later medical missionaries used modern drugs and surgery, and even distributed free heroin injection kits to combat opium smoking.
- In the early twentieth century, missionary schools and hospitals attracted both affluent and poor Chinese despite anti-imperialist and anti-Christian movements; elites often condemned missionaries as culturally incompatible, but popular choices frequently favored the effective education and health care they provided.
Methods
- Qualitative historical study drawing on Qing memorials and edicts, Vatican missionary archives, missionary correspondence, periodicals, pictorial press, and secondary scholarship.
- Interpretive local-history analysis comparing official, missionary, elite, and popular perceptions across the late imperial and Republican periods.
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- The article does not include a formal limitations section; stated limitations are not stated in the paper.
- Evident from the text: the source base is heavily mediated by official Qing documents and missionary archives, which may overrepresent state and missionary perspectives.
- Evident from the text: claims about majority popular trust and local reception are broad and not supported by systematic sampling or quantification, and the wide chronological and geographic scope means coverage is uneven and often anecdotal.
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“During the long reign of the Qianlong 乾隆 emperor (Manchu: Abkai Wehiyehe/弘曆 Hvng Li, 1735-96), Zhili province, surrounding the capital, absorbed particularly many Christian refugees.”
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“However, the whole of the North China Plain, from Shaanxi in the West to Shandong by the Yellow Sea, provided shelter for Christians looking for less state interference.”
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“Fully aware of the dubious nature of such pharmaceutical commerce, the state reiterated its prohibition on the sale of medicines on repeated occasions.”
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“An edict of the year 1805 forbade”
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“In fact, the Catholic missionaries were so successful in their medical arts that they were prohibited from selling medications by both the Holy See and the Qing state.”
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“For the year 1806 alone, the missionaries in the province of Sichuan reported nearly 7,000 baptisms of foundlings, as opposed to 1,371 adult christenings and 1,760 christenings of infants.”
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“the early twentieth-century public would turn toward the most effective schooling and health care-often provided by missionary centers.”
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“The same can be said about the attitude toward Westerners in official roles, which can be easily gleaned from the popular press.”
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“Eager to underline the scientific credentials of the new pills, the Shanghai press revealed the chemical composition of the most popular brands.”
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“And this even in times of anti-missionary violence and anti-imperialist demonstrations.”
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“Within the general population, the wide range of advertised self-medication substances, often equipped with self-application kits, 61 exemplifies the unquestioned belief in the superiority of modern medicine.”
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“The educated anti-imperialists thus also took it upon themselves to reinterpret the history of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and with it the role that the missionaries played in it.”
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“Christians during the Qing period frequently advertised their religion by extolling the curative powers of ritual paraphernalia, such as rosaries, crucifixes, blessed water, or oil.”
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“The missionary impact in these circles was mainly felt in the educational sector, with a majority of affluent families deciding to send their boys (later also girls) to a school maintained by a missionary society rather than to a traditional school with a Confucian curriculum.”
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“The Confucian state regarded the Christian attempts to heal the rift between the Master of Heaven and the sinful earthlings, as well as the clergy's dealings in surgery and pharmaceutics, as equally harmful methods of winning the hearts of simple-minded villagers.”
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“The reasons can be summarized by the following terms: political destabilization, urbanization, and the encounter with modernity.”
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“Christian missionaries were thus, wittingly or not, perpetuating rumors of magical healing being used as a ruse for attracting commoners to sectarian movements.”
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“The combination of restrictive legislation, prohibiting missionary activity beyond Beijing and Macau by European and Chinese clerics alike, as well as the inherent ill will that many of the local magistrates held against the Christians, led to the gradual dislocation of urban believers and relocation into the relative safety of the countryside.”
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“Healing, and all the aspirations for a happier and longer life that went along with the notion of health, constituted a common marker of popular religiosity in late imperial China, whether officially recognized or not.”
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“The severity of such punishments stressed the importance Qing officials attached to preventing foreigners from freely moving within the empire.”
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“The advent of the twentieth century would see significant changes in the public perception of Western missionaries.”
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“And this despite the concrete benefits that the latter brought along for rich and poor alike.”
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“The cultural iconoclasm of the 1920s provided results that went far beyond the lives of the political elites in Republican China.”
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“For the general population, the medical missionaries' access to modern surgical equipment and the latest medical drugs meant overcoming rumor-inspired misgivings concerning the true intentions of the medics from the West.”
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“The opportunities created by Western missionaries in China's centers of modernity also led to unrealistic expectations of wealth and success rather than any genuine immiseration.”
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“The prohibition of recreational opium smoking during first decades of the twentieth century, coupled with the simultaneous rise of clinical medicine, unleashed a similar belief in magic-modern, scientific magic, which could overcome all the weaknesses and ailments of the past.”
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“The missionaries' presence in the treaty ports thus equaled the notion of a privileged lifestyle and better prospects for one's offspring.”
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“The Western missionaries who were active in modern China were trusted by a majority of the Chinese population, both in the countryside and in the cities, not least as the ultimate guarantors of access to the effective treatment of illnesses.”
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“But it was this very aim that had brought the missionaries to China in the first place, thus creating a field of tension between the aspirations of the missionaries and the expectations of the average querent.”
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“For the transformation of the May Fourth period, the emphasis on science in most missionary schools would have profound implications”
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“It was the efficacy of the Westerners' technical knowledge and their methods for healing diseases that made them into magnets of public admiration.”
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“the flow of rural migrants into the nascent industrial centers and treaty ports reduced the reliance on traditional networks of social authority, but also affected financial security and thus the provision of health care.”
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“the Self-Strengthening (ziqiang 自強) movement of the preceding three decades had produced very uneven economic growth, with large segments of the rural population living in conditions of poverty.”
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“The momentous events of the year 1900, the culmination of Boxer or Yihetuan 義和團 unrest, would come as a reminder that Qing China was all but built on stable foundations.”
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“When refusing to apostatize by walking over a crucifix, Salvetti was kept in solitary confinement, albeit without undue force.”
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“As part of a widespread crackdown against heretical movements in the year 1811, Qing officials confiscated medications as well as medical instruments imported during the Kangxi years, which had facilitated the medical work of the missionaries for almost one hundred years.”
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“From the middle of the nineteenth century, however, an increasing number of missionaries were scientifically trained and well-equipped medics, who enjoyed the combined appeal of being men of learning as well as of healing powers.”
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“And there, in remote locations, many of which in mountains or marshes, and often in the border zones between Han Chinese and other ethnic territories, China's Christian communities quietly thrived and multiplied.”
§ MISSIONARIES-FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVES OF ALIEN CREEDS? > Abstract
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“The accusations leveled against Christian missionaries during the nineteenth century manifested themselves in rumors of immoral acts with children, and the harvesting of foundlings-specifically their eyes-for alchemical purposes.”
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“Imperial officials would seize on the distribution of medical drugs as examples of nefarious activity, relying on the general public to act as informers.”
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“As the Jiaqing emperor proclaimed on August 21, 1805, the Cantonese authorities were to take adequate measures to effectively control all foreigners, which may lead to the extermination of the (Christian) evil.”
§ MISSIONARIES-FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVES OF ALIEN CREEDS? > Abstract
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“However, any major”
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“Christian China's”
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“Rather than becoming extinct, Christianity's center of gravity in China shifted from the metropoles to the rural periphery.”
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“Only every now and then during the latter eighteenth century did European missionaries visit these Christian shelters, though these were exceptional occasions for these otherwise priestless, self-administering communities.”
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“From early Confucian admonitions against undue familiarity with the spirits to Tang-era polemics against excessive devotion to Buddhism, agnostic reservations concerning religious practice have been a staple feature of Chinese intellectual life.”
§ MISSIONARIES-FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVES OF ALIEN CREEDS? > School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
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“While the very first Republican administration had attempted in vain to force mission schools to register as early as in 1913”
§ MISSIONARIES-FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVES OF ALIEN CREEDS? > CHANGING PARAMETERS: UPRISINGS, SCIENCE, AND REVOLUTION
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“Although Western missionaries had played a prominent role in the administration of pharmaceutical substances from the very beginnings, the last two decades of the nineteenth century and the first two of the twentieth saw a rapid proliferation of Western practitioners with a Christian calling.”
§ MISSIONARIES-FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVES OF ALIEN CREEDS? > School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
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“While morphine injection had already been widespread in much of eastern China, 62 consumers gradually replaced the expensive opiates with narcotic pills.”
§ MISSIONARIES-FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVES OF ALIEN CREEDS? > TRANSFORMATIONS: SCIENCE AS GOD
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“Skepticism against clerics of any religious orientation in China can be found in the oldest texts known to us.”
§ MISSIONARIES-FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVES OF ALIEN CREEDS? > School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
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“This applied to both their countries of origin (in Europe and North America) as well as to those visited in missionary function.”
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“However, the class divides that became visible at missionary schools led to social frictions, calls for political change, and, eventually, calls for a withdrawal of the Western missionary presence in China.”
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“While mission schools and colleges increasingly played host to anti-Western demonstrations, they remained highly sought-after as places of international learning and modern scientific progress.”
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“Anglo-American and French colleges reacted by switching their focus onto scientific subjects and their medium to Chinese.”
§ MISSIONARIES-FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVES OF ALIEN CREEDS? > CHANGING PARAMETERS: UPRISINGS, SCIENCE, AND REVOLUTION
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“The Scotsman William Milne (1785-1822), whose journey mirrored that of Morrison, would in due course open the first Chinese printing press in Malacca.”
§ MISSIONARIES-FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVES OF ALIEN CREEDS? > School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
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“Cai Yuanpei 蔡元培 (1868-1940) imposed the commitment to the secular Republic as the sole criterion for operating higher educational facilities.”
§ MISSIONARIES-FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVES OF ALIEN CREEDS? > CHANGING PARAMETERS: UPRISINGS, SCIENCE, AND REVOLUTION
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“In ideological terms, it was the Western missionaries' resemblance to the leaders of China's indigenous”
§ MISSIONARIES-FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVES OF ALIEN CREEDS? > BENEDICTIONS, CURSES, AND PHYSICAL HEALING
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“The argument the present article wishes to pursue is that in most cases where the Qing authorities or local scholar officials objected to the presence of Christian missionaries from the West, it was because of the perceived menace posed by the religious practices of Christianity-allegedly they endangered public morality, infringed upon anti-heresy legislation, and aided potential anti-Qing rebels.”
§ MISSIONARIES-FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVES OF ALIEN CREEDS? > Abstract
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“Christianity proved no exception to this observation.”
§ MISSIONARIES-FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVES OF ALIEN CREEDS? > BENEDICTIONS, CURSES, AND PHYSICAL HEALING
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“Whereas the Qing state emphasized control, both religious leaders and medical healers were highly mobile, crossing administrative boundaries at will, thus making any effective imperial control nigh impossible.”
§ MISSIONARIES-FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVES OF ALIEN CREEDS? > BENEDICTIONS, CURSES, AND PHYSICAL HEALING
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“But perhaps more corrosive than the late Qing empire's economic fragility were the degree of official corruption exhibited and the inability of the local defense forces to ward off attacking bandits and pirates.”
§ MISSIONARIES-FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVES OF ALIEN CREEDS? > CHANGING PARAMETERS: UPRISINGS, SCIENCE, AND REVOLUTION
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“Descriptions of exorcisms are relatively rare but nevertheless illustrate how powerful a conversion tool they could be.”
§ MISSIONARIES-FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVES OF ALIEN CREEDS? > BENEDICTIONS, CURSES, AND PHYSICAL HEALING
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“The accusations leveled against the Christian missionaries were concrete in nature and often in response to perceived infringements of (Confucian) orthopraxy.”
§ MISSIONARIES-FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVES OF ALIEN CREEDS? > Abstract
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“The missionaries were caught between the desire to”
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“Only a tiny minority by the 1930s escaped this pattern, partaking in the objective advantages of the missionary presence.”
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“However, it was the opinion of the literary elite that would matter disproportionally, since it had always been the intellectuals' historical prerogative to publish on political views and to interpret the events of the past.”
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“Where the Marxian Chinese nationalist would see the long arm of European imperialism at play, most commoners were more concerned with the practical advantages of having a mission station in the immediate vicinity.”
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“The intellectual assault against the spirits of imperial China thus bequeathed science with the ultimate authority over life and death, and the new medical elite became the high priesthood of the scientific age.”
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“Highly addictive and medically harmful, the new pills had clearly become more dangerous than the old smoking culture-although their panache of modernity outweighed any public health concerns.”
§ MISSIONARIES-FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVES OF ALIEN CREEDS? > TRANSFORMATIONS: SCIENCE AS GOD
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“The perception of scientific medicine as omnipotent savior was of course not confined to China, 59 but the sheer pace at which material and scientific change was being transmitted via the Treaty Ports added to the sensation of universal awe that modern medicine brought along.”
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“The medical missionaries of the late nineteenth century were thus not merely harbingers of a new era in scientific medicine but also spiritual competitors.”
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“The material impulses that had irritated, indeed shocked, the Jesuit missionaries in the seventeenth century were well and truly alive in the twentieth century.”
§ MISSIONARIES-FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVES OF ALIEN CREEDS? > CONCLUSION
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“obvious to Christian Westerners, but not to the typical reader of the Qingdai huabao.”
§ MISSIONARIES-FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVES OF ALIEN CREEDS? > School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
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“The priest depicted in this late imperial pictorial newspaper probably counts among the former.”
§ MISSIONARIES-FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVES OF ALIEN CREEDS? > School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
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“To conclude the answer, the latter were not really interested in the teachings of Christianity either, which in its complexity went well beyond the horizon of an uneducated contemporary.”
§ MISSIONARIES-FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVES OF ALIEN CREEDS? > CONCLUSION
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“Any binding answer to the question contained in the title of this study thus needs to distinguish between differences in perception between the intellectual elite and the other layers of Chinese society-both during the Qing period and in the Republic.”
§ MISSIONARIES-FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVES OF ALIEN CREEDS? > CONCLUSION
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“Literary action against Christianity during the late Ming period (early seventeenth century) thus fits well into this pattern-a phenomenon that would accompany Christian clerics through the entire late imperial period and also the twentieth century.”
§ MISSIONARIES-FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVES OF ALIEN CREEDS? > School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
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“Intended to illustrate the eccentric nature of Western missionaries to a curious urban readership, this illustration alludes to the proselytization efforts of Saint Francis of Assisi”
§ MISSIONARIES-FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVES OF ALIEN CREEDS? > School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
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“Nevertheless, both Jesuits and their confrères from the mendicant orders would encounter opposition that was motivated partly by a refusal to contemplate radical change, partly by sheer envy.”
§ MISSIONARIES-FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVES OF ALIEN CREEDS? > CONCLUSION
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- Based: passes — The paper gives a reason why it holds.
Probably not a substantial claim. It may state two separate claims as one.
A conclusion the paper draws from its own results — it cites no other source for it, so there is none to check. The quote shows it is in the paper.
In the paper
“This aspect of the Christian missions resulted in a dialogue between Christians, Daoists, and Buddhists, precisely because of the crucial relevance of medical knowledge in society at large.”
§ MISSIONARIES-FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVES OF ALIEN CREEDS? > TRANSFORMATIONS: SCIENCE AS GOD
plaindirect- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
- Checkable: passes — It can be checked against evidence.
- Load-bearing: unclear — It is unclear whether the paper’s conclusions depend on it.
- Based: passes — The paper gives a reason why it holds.
It may state two separate claims as one.
The paper relies on this without support.
The archival and missionary sources used by the paper accurately reflect the conditions and perceptions of the local population.
“the safest method of avoiding a teleological interpretation of the missionary involvement in modern China is to interrogate the relevant sources that reveal the conditions and perceptions of the local population.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The popular press reliably reflects mainstream public attitudes.
“which can be easily gleaned from the popular press.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The missionaries came to China primarily to spread Christianity.
“But it was this very aim that had brought the missionaries to China in the first place”
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Accommodation Strategies in Education: Exploring Jesuit Textbook Publication in Modern Shanghai
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“Secondly, within the complex context of colonial modernity (Laamann 2020, pp. 106–7), the relationship between Christianity and educational mis‑ sions has significantly influenced Zi‑ka‑wei’s educational landscape.”
BackgroundXiong, L., & Li, P. (2026) · Religions · doi:10.3390/rel17010055
“Even during the surge of anti‑Christian movements in the 1920s, some segments of the Chinese population contin‑ ued to support missionary educational and medical projects (Laamann 2021).”
Metadata
- Authors
- Laamann, L. P.
- Affiliations
- University of London (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Laamann, Lars Peter
- ORCID
- Laamann, Lars Peter
- Venue
- History of Religions
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2021-08-01
- Volume
- 61
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 105-125
- ISSN
- 0018-2710 (ISSN-L)
- 1545-6935
- OpenAlex
- W3194989996
- Cited by
- 2
- References
- 4
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2024: 1
- FWCI
- 2.95
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- History of Religions (publishedVersion)
- SOAS Research Online (SOAS University of London) (acceptedVersion)
- Center for International and Regional Studies (Georgetown University) (acceptedVersion)
- SOAS Research Online (SOAS University of London) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Chinese history and philosophy
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Christian Theology and Mission
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Religion and Society Interactions
- Keywords
- Western missionaries, imperialism, May Fourth Movement, Republic of China, 1920s China, science and religion
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