The Anqing Anti-Western-Religion Case Study Of The Late Qing Dynasty

During the late Qing Dynasty,many contradictions and conflicts between China and the west had been triggered with the gradual entering of foreign forces into China.Among them,one of the main contradictions is the anti-western-religion case initiated by missionary activities.Anqing anti-western-religion case occurred due to a variety of factors,which was mainly caused by the boycott of local officials to missionary activities.After the outbreak of anti-western-religion case,the big powers held different attitudes to anti-western-religion case in order to protect their own interests.France tried to expand its influence in China by means of missionary work,so it focused on protecting the interests of missionaries in china.The Qing government utilized its control capability to cope with the unreasonable demands of the big powers;however,the local government postponed its implementation to continue to boycott missionary activities,which is the primary cause that the anti-western-religion cases occurred frequently and became larger and larger.This paper has three parts.The first part discusses the missionary activities,strategies and local officials of the Catholic missionaries in Anhui.The launching of missionary activities in Anhui was mainly due to the missionary foundation in the Qing Dynasty and the protection of missionary activities in france.The missionaries of the Anqing missionary activities in the whole of Anhui does not seem to dominate,the establishment of the Anqing missionary position,one is as a transit station and other places of Anhui mission,on the other hand is the hope can get the official recognition of the missionary activities.Therefore,its symbolic significance is greater than the practical significance.Local officials for the maintenance of stability and the need to keep the place of authoritarian government,continued to resist the missionary activities in Anhui.Therefore,local government restrictions on missionary activity,but ultimately ended in failure.The missionaries in the treatment of missionary activity is strong,finally lead to the expulsion of missionaries event,became the first sign of Anqing missionary.The second part mainly discusses the reasons for the gentry’s anti religion and its anti teaching strategies,and the position and function of the authorities in the teaching plan of Anqing.As influenced by the Confucian culture of gentry,missionary activities against the most from the traditional Confucian "Yi Xia" concept,and thus create all sorts of rumors and jietie.In the Anqing case,the spirit of strength and popularity of thought,the gentry specially selected examination period as the best period of anti religion.Then in order to avoid the incident,to put forward some official powers "an insatiable demand",local officials have also made attempts to communicate with the missionaries.However,in the process of the event,the local mutual shirk delay is the direct reason causing events affecting the expansion of the.After the incident,it was claimed that the people strongly opposed the priest’s return,so as to achieve the purpose of expelling the clergy.Therefore,local officials resisted missionary activities attitude has not changed.The third part focuses on the proper solution to the Anqing teaching plan,the different attitudes of Britain and France and the measures taken by the government authorities.Britain was more moderate in attitudes after Anqing’s lesson plan,and France was tougher.Among them,France hopes to enhance its influence in China through missionary activities,while Britain takes a conservative attitude to protect its trade with china.The government in Anqing after the lesson,the French under strong military power,had to go to France to control means,to explore the real intention of the French minister.In the implementation of control policy at the same time,the Qing government also from the start of the missionaries,section Chen interested,hope to get understanding of the missionaries.On this basis,local governments try their best to safeguard their rights and interests.Finally,in the process of the implementation of the negotiation conditions,the local governments tend to adopt a delaying strategy from the perspective of safeguarding local interests,and the contradictions caused by missionary work have not been completely solved.Generally speaking,around the missionary activities,the government officials,gentry,missionaries and foreign ministers have made different strategic choices from the maintenance of their own interests.Among them,the old mechanism of the late Qing government itself can not adapt to the new changes of the times,and it is an important reason why the teaching plan is always difficult to eliminate.To deal with the interpersonal relationship in the local society to cope with the power and responsibility relationship in the modern society,it will inevitably appear incompatible.