The Christian Occupation of China
Author | Milton Stauffer |
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Country | Shanghai |
Publication date | 1922 |
published simultaneously in Chinese 中華歸主/中华归主 (Zhonghua Gui Zhu, literally "China for Christ") |
The Christian Occupation of China: A General Survey of the Numerical Strength and Geographical Distribution of the Christian Forces in China, Made by the Special Committee on Survey and Occupation, China Continuation Committee, 1918-1921 is a book published in 1922 simultaneously in English and Chinese by the Special Committee on Survey and Occupation, commissioned by the China Continuation Committee, headed by Milton T. Stauffer, assisted by Tsinforn C. Wong, and M. Gardner Tewksbury. The volume was intended as a progress report on the status of Christian churches in China, including social and economic background and local conditions, in preparation for foreign missionaries to turn control over to Chinese Christians, but instead, partly because of the provocative title of the English version, was one of the provocations of
Background
Protestant Christian groups from all parts of the world met in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1910 for the
The original aim of the Committee had been to promote Christian missionary work, but the committee chose to interpret their goal as to understand China as a society. They included coverage of all administrative zones, cities, demographic statistics, ethnic groups, language and dialects, economic situation, transportation, education, medicine.[2]
The volume is prefaced with "Definition Of What Constitutes Adequate Missionary Occupation," by
Lobenstine, as executive secretary of the Continuation Committee, wrote that "the coming period is expected to be one of transition, during which the burden of the work and its control will increasingly shift from the foreigner to the Chinese." He pointed out that "many of the ablest and most consecrated Chinese Christians" have a "very intense and rightful desire that Christianity shall be freed from the incubus of being regarded as a 'foreign religion' and ... they regard the predominance of foreign influence in the Church as one of the chief hindrances to a more rapid spread of Christianity in China." [4]
Many Chinese were alarmed by the title, however, which contributed to the
Contents
The contents include: List of missionary societies, geographical and political divisions of China, language areas, population, communications, non-Christian religious movements, progress (1900-1920), Christian occupation (by Province), unclaimed areas, work with other nationalities, Christian work among special classes [aboriginal tribes, Tai/Dai, Hakka, Muslims, overseas Chinese, government students and Christianity, the blind, post and telegraph workers, rickshaw men, work with boys, YMCA, YWCA, Stewart Evangelistic Fund, work among foreigners]. The Chinese Church, status of Chinese pastors, religious education, commercialized vice, alcoholism, education, Bible schools, agricultural missions, medical work, comparison of mission hospitals, health education, leprosy, narcotics, tuberculosis, health of missionary families in China. Christian literature, Roman Catholic literature, Roman Catholic and Russian Orthodox church missions in China. Provincial statistics, postal maps, mission stations and hospitals.[7]
Notes
- ^ StaufferWongTewksbury (1922), p. 1-4 .
- ^ James Gao, Historical Dictionary of Modern China (1800-1949) (Scarecrow Press, 2007), p. 71-72
- ^ StaufferWongTewksbury (1922), p. Overleaf.
- ^ FairbankTwitchettFeuerwerker (1986), p. 165-166.
- ^ Bays (2012), p. TK.
- ISBN 0765606615.
- ^ Ricci Institute Library Online Catalogue
References
- ISBN 9781405159548.
- Stauffer, Milton Theobald; Wong, Tsinforn C.; Tewksbury, M. Gardner (1922). The Christian Occupation of China: A General Survey of the Numerical Strength and Geographical Distribution of the Christian Forces in China Made by the Special Committee on Survey and Occupation China Continuation Committee 1918-1921. Shanghai: China Continuation Committee.. Full text of The Christian Occupation of China at Internet Archive.
- ISBN 0521243386.
- China Continuation, Committee, Survey Special Committee on, Occupation, Milton Theobald Stauffer and Shaowu Quan (1922). 中華歸主 Zhonghua Gui Zhu. Reprinted 中国社会科学出版社 : 新華書店北京发行所发行, Beijing: Zhongguo she hui ke xue chu ban she : Xin hua shu dian Beijing fa xing suo fa xing, 1987. Shanghai: Shang wu yin shu guan.
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