The Study On Modern Hunan Missionary Schools

Religious has great effects on people since old time, so has Christianity. Because Christianity firmly resisted other religious beliefs and bear a strong will to idealized the commonism ,so it connected with colonialism. By protection of unfair treaties ,the missionaries were surged into China to engage in missionary work after Opium War. When they were conflict with people, they were obliged to set up schools as anther method to propganda religious belifes, so were Hunan missionaries schools. The thesis will emphatically inspect into the origin,development and assessment of Hunan missionary schools. The thesis is devided into three parts.The first part analyses the origin of Hunan missionary schools. The reason why missionary schools could not survive before 1895 was missionaries invasion and Hunan people's objection to anything form overseas. But missionaries got great chance to set up schools because Hunan people resorted to study the West after 1895.The second part introduces the development of missionary schools. There were six periods. Though every period had its own characters, the development of schools was affected all the time by many factorts, such as the political conditions of overseas and home , people's social minds , missionaries'missonary policy and means.The third part is the assessment of missionary schools. There are two parts. One is missionary schools' comparing with all sorts of other schools, the other is the schools' assessmet. We must notice that theirappearance was a cultural invation, on the other hand , they brought a striking impact on Chinese feudal educational system.Now our country is advocating privates to set up schools. As the thesis's writer, I sincerely hope it can provide something to those private schools.