The American Presbyterian Mission In Shandong (1861-1911)

In the modern history of China, the development of Christianity have changed from "Mission center" to "Church center" from its beginning to rooting in China. Along with this situation, the Chinese Christians have become the leader of the Chinese Church. The process was difficult. As we know, the aim of the protestant missionary enterprise was constructing a native Chinese church. It is important that we must probe deeply the early history of protestant missions in china. As the largest and most successful mission of APM (the American Presbyterian Mission), the history of Shandong Mission of the APM forms a good case for studying the broader Protestant movement of which it was a part.On the basis of the archives of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Mission (1833-1911), the thesis will review the missionary enterprise of APM in Shandong in late Qing Dynasty. In the same time, according to the relation of the religion and society, the thesis will study all aspects of the missionary enterprise, including the enterprise of preach education、medical、famine relief and other society activities. According to this, we can analyze the relation between the APM and the development of Shandong society, the complexity relation between the church and the Chinese and American government, the missionaries’ outlook of Chinese situation.According to the description of enterprise of APM in Shantung Province, the thesis will form a composite picture of Shantung mission. First, the enterprise of missionary was not only global but also local, so that the thesis will unscramble the interactions between the mission and board. Second, the thesis will make clear that the enterprise of missionary in the19th was the base of the Chinese Christian "Three-self"(self-governing, self-supporting, and self-propagating). Third, from the history of Shandong modern society, the enterprise of the APM in Shantung have interacted with the modernization of Shantung province.The thesis consists of six chapters, besides introduction. The first chapter introduces the background of the enterprise of APM in shantung. The second chapter unscramble the process of the APM of shantung expand from the costal to the interior from1861to1895. On this base, the third chapter explains the development of the mission under circumstance of turmoil and revolution, empirically the history during the Righteous and Harmonious Fists. The forth chapters explains the effect of the APM in the "Three-self" and "cohesion" of Chinese Christianity. The fifth Chapter summaries the educational enterprise of APM in Shandong, including children education、the primary and secondary education、the deaf and dumb school. As for the higher education, the thesis emphasis the process of the Tengchow Boy’s College leave Tengchow to Weixian and the union of colleges. The sixth chapter summaries the medical and charitable enterprise, including the famine relief、 the construction of medical system、the economic activities of the missionaries.