The Footprints Of The Belief In The West

The introduction of Christianity into China could be mainly divided into four stages,including the introduction of the Nestorian religion in the Tang Dynasty,the eastward preach of Erkeun in the Yuan Dynasty,the reintroduction of the Jesuits in the Ming and Qing Dynasties,and the introduction of various Christian religions after the Opium War.This article focuses on the geographical study of Christianity’s missionary,emphasizing its characters and laws of the introduction and development among China after the Opium War.This article,which combines the records both from church and documents,selects three time-nodes: 1900,1920,and 1949,to divide the research period to highlight Christianity Horizontal development in different regions,in the perspective of the development of modern Chinese society.The author mainly uses the number of Christian religious members per 10,000 people in various provinces in various periods as a reference,supplemented by the records of churches and missionaries to divide Christian religious missions,and restores the distribution of Christian missions and missions in China.The text is divided into five chapters.The first chapter briefly reviews the situation of Christianity’s mission to China,mainly focusing on Catholicism in the Ming and Qing dynasties and the introduction of Protestantism in China in 1807.During this period,Protestant missions in China only appeared in Guangzhou and Macau.The focus of missions was on overseas Chinese in the Nanyang region,such as Malacca,but Catholicism has already been carried out throughout the country.Chapters 2 to 4 are mainly based on the periods,to restore the distribution of Christianity in China in the three stages: 1840-1900,1901-1920,and 1921-1949.According to the number of believers per 10,000 people in each province,the regions are divided and the characteristics of the spatial pattern of Christian missionary in each period would be observed.The fifth chapter discusses the characteristics of the change in the spatial distribution of Christianity’s missions in China and the reasons for its formation.By arranging the Christian missionary situation in China at different times,the author finds that Christian religion has different development forms in different time and space.Under the effect of natural and human environment,the relationship between the Christianity and Chinese political power and religion had been continued to modify to maintain the development.And the distribution has shown obvious space-time characteristics.During the centuries of Christian missionary work in China from 1840 to 1949,although it had been forbidden,the whole development has been continuously rising.From the perspective of time and stage,it has mainly experienced three periods:(1840-1900)the Christian religion missionary development in China,(1901-1920)the golden period of Christianity missionary in China and(1921-1949)the period of Christianity missionary transition in China.In the case of spatial distribution,Christianity’s mission in China shows obvious gradualness,complexity,and imbalance.On the whole,the Christian missionary mission in China shows a gradual development trend from east to west,south to north,and from coast to inland.With the deepening of Christianity’s mission in China,the distribution pattern of Catholicism and Protestantism presents show obvious differences and complexity.The provinces with developed Catholic missions are mainly concentrated in Zhili Province,Shanxi Province,and Shanxi Province,followed by coastal provinces.The areas where the Protestant and Protestant educational administration is developed are mainly concentrated in the five coastal provinces.At the same time,the Christian missionary center changed during the development process.The center of Catholicism gradually moved from Macao to Hebei Province,and the Protestant missionary center evolved through Nanyang-Guangzhou-Shanghai.After all,the distribution of the Christian religious pattern is obviously affected by political and economic factors,and is formed by the interaction between the human society and the natural environment.