A county , constitutionally known as a hsien , is a de jure second-level administrative division unit in the Republic of China (Taiwan) . Under the administrative structure of Taiwan, it is with the same level of a provincial city .
80-471: Tainan County was a county in southern Taiwan between 1945 and 2010. The county seat was in Sinying City . Tainan County was established on 7 January 1946 on the territory of Tainan Prefecture ( 臺南州 ) shortly after the end of World War II . In the early years, Tainan County consists of most territory of Tainan Prefecture except the territory near cities of Tainan and Kagi ( Chiayi ). The county
160-561: A bidirectional dictionary based on the 1714 Kangxi Dictionary ; and translating the Bible . He was forced to take work with the East India Company in order to fund these activities and remain at Guangzhou. In such conditions, his proselytizing was limited to his employees, whom he compelled to attend Sunday services and daily meetings including prayer, Scriptural readings, and the singing of hymns. It took years before Cai Gao
240-716: A central institution for training a first generation of Chinese physical educators in physical education and muscular Christian ideals. The Boxer Uprising discredited xenophobia and opened the way for a period of growth in Protestant missionaries and missionary institutions, numbers of Christians, and acceptance by non-Christians. The period from 1900 until 1925 has been called the "Golden Age" for Christian missionaries in China. By 1919, there were 3,300 missionaries in China (not counting their children) divided about equally among married men, married women, and unmarried women and reached
320-563: A consequence, he was arrested by the Japanese troops, who accused him of espionage. Later, the Japanese troops released him. Under the strict control of the Japanese troops, Huzhou General Hospital reopened and Dr. Manget worked there for three and a half years. Christian missions were especially successful among ethnic groups on the frontiers. For them Christianity offered not only spiritual attraction but resistance to Han Chinese. The British missionary Samuel Pollard , for instance, devised
400-474: A county was the magistrate , who oversaw both the day-to-day operations of the county as well as civil and criminal cases. The current number of counties mostly resembled that of the later years of Qing dynasty . The first administrative divisions named "county" ( 縣 ) was first established in 1661 by the Kingdom of Tungning . The later ruler Qing empire inherited this type of administrative divisions. With
480-743: A demand for female doctors of Western medicine in China . Thus, female medical missionary Dr. Mary H. Fulton (1854–1927) was sent by the Foreign Missions Board of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) to found the first medical college for women in China . Known as the Hackett Medical College for Women (夏葛女子醫學院), it was located in Guangzhou , China, and was enabled by a large donation from Mr. Edward A.K. Hackett (1851–1916) of Indiana , US. The college
560-516: A foreign country and that the spiritual work of missionaries could only be undertaken by ordained men. Over time, as it became clear that Christian schools were necessary to attract and educate potential Christians and leaders and change foreign cultures that were unreceptive to the Christian message as proclaimed by male missionary preachers. The first unmarried female missionary in China was Mary Ann Aldersey , an eccentric British woman, who opened
640-606: A form of Protestant citizenship training ("muscular Christianity") in China and other Asian countries. Among the results was the increasing integration of Western physical education practices into school curricular, the hosting of National Games since 1910, and the promotion of China's participation in and hosting of the Far Eastern Championship Games since 1913. Moreover, the International YMCA College (now Springfield College) became
720-717: A heavy indemnity on China which Hudson Taylor of the CIM refused to accept. He wanted to demonstrate "the meekness and gentleness of Christ" to the Chinese. In the aftermath of the Boxer Rebellion, the foreign residents in northern China, especially the missionaries, came under attack in their home countries for looting. Missionaries, such as William Ament , utilized United States Army troops to confiscate goods and property from Boxers and alleged Boxers to compensate Christian families for their losses. Critics of such actions included
800-474: A high of 8,000, including children, in 1925. In 1926, civil war, political unrest, competition from ideologies such as Marxism , and the Great Depression saw the missionary enterprise begin to decline. Example of missionary activity during this period include the following. Due to social custom, the women of China were reluctant to be treated by male doctors of Western medicine. This resulted in
880-586: A home. Despite their preponderance in numbers, female missionaries, married and unmarried, were often excluded from participation in policy decisions within missionary organizations which were usually dominated by men. Only in the 1920s, for example, were women given a full voice and vote in the missionary meetings in China of the American Board. Women missionaries had a "civilizing mission" of introducing Protestant middle-class culture to China, educating Chinese women and "elevating their gender". They played
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#1732781091545960-483: A major role in campaigns against opium and foot binding. The widespread view in Europe and America in the late 19th century was that "Civilization cannot exist apart from Christianity." Nineteenth-century women missionaries to China included two early explorers of Tibet, Englishwoman Annie Royle Taylor and Canadian Susanna Carson Rijnhart , both of whom undertook much more dangerous expeditions than famous explorers of
1040-523: A matter of conscience rather than a sin against God, female missionaries vehemently opposed the custom. In the 1860s, American Presbyterian Helen Nevius and others combated foot binding by matchmaking, finding Christian husbands for young women with unbound feet. In 1872 in Beijing, American Methodist Mary Porter , who became the wife of Boxer Rebellion hero Frank Gamewell , banned girls with bound feet in her school and in 1874 an anti-footbinding organization
1120-698: A medical missionary in 1909. In 1912, he rented a building in Houzhou to establish a hospital that could hold about 30 beds. At the end of World War I , Dr. Manget returned to Shanghai and discussed with the representative of the Rockefeller Foundation in China about the Foundation's intention to spread the practice of Western medicine in China. After much negotiation, the Chinese Government agreed to provide 9 acres of land, while
1200-569: A nationalist backlash in China, as local elites saw the missionary activities as a political threat and organized anti-foreign protests. By the 1920s, the mainline Protestant churches realized that conversions were not happening, despite all the schools and hospitals. Furthermore, they had come to appreciate the ethical and cultural values of a different civilization, and began to doubt their own superiority. The mainline Protestant denomination missionary work declined rapidly. In their place Chinese Christians increasingly took control. Furthermore, there
1280-622: A population of over two million can grant some extra privileges in local autonomy that was designed for special municipalities . This type of counties are often called quasi-municipalities ( 準直轄市 ). This term applied to New Taipei and Taoyuan before they became special municipalities . There are currently 13 counties: Under Article 9 of the Additional Articles of the Constitution of the Republic of China , regulated by
1360-526: A printing press for Christian literature. The first medical missionary to China was American Peter Parker who arrived in Guangzhou in 1835. He established a hospital which gained support from the Chinese, treating thousands of patients. Following the appeal of Karl Gützlaff , who started work in China in 1831, German, Scandinavian, and American Lutheran mission societies followed with Lutheran missions to China . The defeat of China by Great Britain in
1440-690: A school for girls in Ningpo in 1844. In the 1860s women's missionary organizations, especially the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and women began to become missionaries around the world in sizable numbers. Women missionaries, married and unmarried, would soon outnumber men. By 1919, American Methodist and Congregationalist (ABCFM) women missionaries numbered more than twice
1520-575: A severe mental disturbance after a series of failed imperial examinations , the scholar Hong Xiuquan had a dream which he interpreted in light of the 500-page Liang Fa tract given to him years before. (Liang and other Protestants targeted Guangdong's prefectural and provincial examinations as massive gatherings of literate, potentially influential young men.) Forbidden baptism by the American Baptist Issachar Jacox Roberts , Hong grew more heterodox. Although he used
1600-745: A time of growing power by the British East India Company , but were initially restricted from living and traveling in China except for the limited area of the Thirteen Factories in Canton, now known as Guangzhou , and Macau . In the 1842 treaty ending the First Opium War missionaries were granted the right to live and work in five coastal cities. In 1860, the treaties ending the Second Opium War with
1680-440: Is at present printing the four Gospels in the dialect of Chinese Turkestan, and that in all probability they will be ready before the new mission is settled at Kashgar. Missionary societies initially sent out only married couples and a few single men as missionaries. Wives served as unpaid "assistant missionaries". The opinion of male-dominated missionary societies was that unmarried women should not live unprotected and alone in
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#17327810915451760-556: Is subdivide into districts ( 區 ), which is reformed from Japanese districts ( 郡 ). The districts are divided into townships. On 16 August 1950, another division reform was implemented. The northern part of the county was separated and established Chiayi County and Yunlin County . The remaining Tainan County has territory equivalent to the Shin'ei (Hsinying), Niitoyo (Hsinfeng), Shinka (Hsinhua), Sobun (Tsengwen), and Hokumon (Peimen) in
1840-544: The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions . Other missionaries were affiliated with Baptists , Southern Baptists , Presbyterians , American Reformed Mission , Methodists , Episcopalians , and Wesleyans . The Protestant missionary movement distributed numerous copies of the Bible, as well as other printed works of history and science. They established and developed schools and hospitals practicing Western medicine. Traditional Chinese teachers viewed
1920-888: The Anti-Opium League in China among their colleagues in every mission station, for which the American missionary Hampden Coit DuBose served as the first president. This organization was instrumental in gathering data from Western-trained medical doctors in China, most of whom were missionaries. They published their data and conclusions in 1899 as Opinions of Over 100 Physicians on the Use of Opium in China . The survey included doctors in private practices, particularly in Shanghai and Hong Kong, as well as Chinese who had been trained in medical schools in Western countries. In Britain,
2000-520: The First Opium War resulted in the Treaty of Nanking in 1842 which opened to trade, residence by foreigners, and missionary activity five Chinese port cities: Guangzhou ("Canton"), Xiamen ("Amoy"), Fuzhou ("Foochow"), Ningbo ("Ningpo"), and Shanghai. Protestant missionary organizations established themselves in the open cities. In the Second Opium War (1856–1860) Great Britain and France defeated China. The Convention of Peking in 1860 opened up
2080-540: The Japanese era . In addition, districts in the remaining part of Kaohsiung County was defunct. All townships were directly controlled by the County Government. On 25 December 2010, the county merged with Tainan City to form a larger single special municipality . The subdivisions of the County remains mostly stable between 1950 and 2010. However, some changed has also been made. In 25 Dec 2010, The county
2160-534: The Japanese prefectural cities were reformed to provincial cities and are not a part of counties. Changes of location and names of counties in Chinese history have been a major field of research in Chinese historical geography, especially from the 1960s to the 1980s. In late 1949, the government of the Republic of China lost the Chinese Civil War and was relocated to Taipei , Taiwan . In 1950,
2240-633: The Local Government Act , each county has a government headed by an elected county magistrate and an elected county council exercising legislative functions. The governing bodies (executive and legislature) of the counties are: Protestant missions in China In the early 19th century, Western colonial expansion occurred at the same time as an evangelical revival – the Second Great Awakening – throughout
2320-568: The Pollard Script for writing the Miao language in order to translate the Bible. A musician and an engineer named James O. Fraser was the first to work with the Lisu people of Yunnan in southwest China. This resulted in phenomenal church growth among the various ethnic groups in the area that endured into the 21st century. A 2022 study found that the Protestant missionary activities led to
2400-539: The Sui dynasty abolished the commandery level (郡 jùn), which was the level just above counties, and demoted some commanderies to counties. In Imperial China, the county was a significant administrative unit because it marked the lowest level of the imperial bureaucratic structure — in other words, it was the lowest level that the government reached. Government below the county level was often undertaken through informal non-bureaucratic means, varying between dynasties. The head of
2480-784: The Unequal Treaties . A Chinese nobleman said of the European and American presence in China: "Take away your missionaries and your opium and you will be welcome." Xinjiang was proselytized by Swedish missionaries to preach and convert Uyghurs (Turki Muslims). Christian missionaries such as British missionary George W. Hunter , Johannes Avetaranian , and Swedish missionaries like Magnus Bäcklund , Nils Fredrik Höijer , Father Hendricks , Josef Mässrur , Anna Mässrur , Albert Andersson , Gustaf Ahlbert , Stina Mårtensson , John Törnquist , Gösta Raquette , Oskar Hermannson and
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2560-704: The central government of Taiwan. Hsien have existed since the Warring States period , and were set up nation-wide by the Qin dynasty . The number of counties in China proper gradually increased from dynasty to dynasty. As Qin Shi Huang reorganized the counties after his unification, there were about 1000. Under the Eastern Han dynasty , the number of counties increased to above 1,000. About 1400 existed when
2640-403: The 1920s and thereafter declined due to war and unrest in China. By 1953, all Protestant missionaries had been expelled by the communist government of China. It is difficult to determine an exact number, but historian Kathleen Lodwick estimates that some 50,000 foreigners served in mission work in China between 1809 and 1949, including both Protestants and Catholics. For Robert Morrison and
2720-429: The Boxer Rebellion became increasingly secular. Opium was Britain's most profitable export to China during the 19th century. Early missionaries, such as Bridgman, criticized the opium trade—but missionaries were equivocal. The treaties ending the two opium wars opened up China to missionary endeavor and some missionaries believed that the opium wars might be part of God's plan to make China a Christian nation. Later, as
2800-708: The British Parliament to stop the opium trade. He and James Laidlaw Maxwell appealed to the London Missionary Conference of 1888 and the Edinburgh Missionary Conference of 1910 to condemn the trade. As he lay dying, the government signed an agreement to end the opium trade within two years. The rise to prominence of women missionaries also gave rise to missionary opposition to Chinese foot binding . Although male missionaries often considered footbinding as
2880-614: The China missionaries were idealistic and well-educated young men and women who were members of the Oberlin Band , the Cambridge Seven , and the Student Volunteer Movement . The slogan of the missionary movement was "The evangelization of the world". Later, to give urgency, the slogan was expanded to be: "The evangelization of the world in this generation". China, resistant to missionary efforts and
2960-521: The Chinese were " Rice Christians ", accepting Christianity only for the material benefits of becoming a Christian. Missionaries turned towards establishing hospitals and schools as more effective in attracting Chinese to Christianity than proselytizing. In Chinese eyes, Christianity was associated with opium, the Taiping Rebellion with its millions of dead, imperialism , and the special privileges granted foreigners and Christian converts under
3040-741: The English-speaking world, leading to more overseas missionary activity. The nineteenth century became known as the Great Century of modern religious missions . Beginning with the English missionary Robert Morrison in 1807, thousands of Protestant men, their wives and children, and unmarried female missionaries would live and work in China in an extended encounter between Chinese and Western culture. Most missionaries represented and were supported by Protestant organizations or denominations in their home countries. They entered China at
3120-817: The Foundation provided US$ 30,000 to build a hospital in Huzhou. The Rockefeller Foundation also funded a hospital in Suzhou, China, after a request from missionary John Abner Snell . The remaining needed funds were provided by the Southern Methodist Church and the Northern Baptist Church in the US. Thus, the small hospital with a small rented building and one doctor was transformed into Huzhou General Hospital (湖州醫院), which had 9 acres of land, over 100 nurses and 100 other personnel, in addition to
3200-465: The French and British opened up the entire country to missionary activity. Protestant missionary activity exploded during the next few decades. From 50 missionaries in China in 1860, the number grew to 2,500 (counting wives and children) in 1900. 1,400 of the missionaries were British, 1,000 were Americans, and 100 were from continental Europe, mostly Scandinavia. Protestant missionary activity peaked in
3280-574: The Great Depression. Criticism and calls for reform came from within the missionary community. Partly as a result of the Fundamentalist–Modernist Controversy missions came under questioning. Novelist and missionary Pearl S. Buck for example, returned to the United States in 1932 to ask "Is There a Case for Foreign Missionaries?". Buck's twin biographies of her parents, Fighting Angel and The Exile , dramatized
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3360-690: The Protestant Bible and tracts as his movement's holy books and attached great importance to his version of the Ten Commandments , he preached his own form of Christianity, including the belief that he was Jesus's younger brother. Roberts became an advisor to the Taipings but fell out with them in 1862, fleeing for his life and denounced them. The 1859 Awakening in Britain and the work of J. Hudson Taylor (1832–1905) helped increase
3440-569: The Uyghur converted Christian Nur Luke studied the Uyghur language and wrote works on it. A Turkish convert to Christianity, Johannes Avetaranian went to China to spread Christianity to the Uyghurs. Yaqup Istipan , Wu'erkaixi , and Alimujiang Yimiti are other Uyghurs who converted to Christianity. The Bible was translated into the Kashgari dialect of Turki (Uyghur). An anti-Christian mobs
3520-609: The West put more people and resources into the effort make China a Christian country. Missionary societies and denominations on both sides of the Atlantic responded. Many new societies were formed and hundreds of missionaries were recruited, many from university students influenced by the ministry of D. L. Moody . The most prominent of the missionary organisations were the CIM and the London Missionary Society , and
3600-555: The Western Ocean [Europeans], should they propagate in the country the religion of Heaven's Lord, [name given to Christianity by the Catholics] or clandestinely print books, or collect congregations to be preached to, and thereby deceive many people, or should any Tartars or Chinese, in their turn, propagate the doctrines and clandestinely give names (as in baptism), inflaming and misleading many, if proved by authentic testimony,
3680-441: The achievement of their primary objective: the conversion of Chinese to Christianity. Robert Morrison in 27 years of missionary effort could only report 25 converts and other early missionaries had similar experiences. The pace of conversions picked up with time but by 1900 there were still only 100,000 Chinese Protestant Christians after nearly a century of endeavor by thousands of missionaries. Moreover, critics charged that many of
3760-528: The beys and other powerful Mohammedans who are able to coerce them. ... All civil and military officers who may fail to detect Europeans clandestinely residing in the country within their jurisdiction, and propagating their religion, thereby deceiving the multitude, shall be delivered over to the Supreme Board and be subjected to a court of inquiry. The first American missionary to China, Elijah Coleman Bridgman arrived in Guangzhou in 1830. He established
3840-553: The counties in Taiwan were reorganized. Counties in populous western Taiwan were split into two to three counties. This pushed the number of counties up to 16. After the war, the government only controlled a few offshore islands of mainland China . Among them are two of the 67 counties of the original Fujian Province : Kinmen and Lienchiang . The number of counties under jurisdiction, 16 in Taiwan and 2 in Fujian, remained stable until
3920-515: The day such as Sven Hedin and Aurel Stein . The Boxer Rebellion in 1900 was the worst disaster in missionary history. One hundred and eighty-nine Protestant missionaries, including 53 children, (and many Roman Catholic priests and nuns) were killed by Boxers and Chinese soldiers in northern China. An estimated 2,000 Protestant Chinese Christians also were killed. The China Inland Mission lost more members than any other organization: 58 adults and 20 children were killed. The Chinese had recognized
4000-522: The early 1920s, and the Northern Expedition of 1925–1927 led to the unification of China under the Nationalist Party . Liberal missionaries welcomed the opportunity to participate in the development of the Chinese nation, but the mission enterprise was attacked. As anti-imperialism grew, Christian schools were subjected to government regulation which required that all organizations have Chinese leadership. Many missionaries left China and support in home countries waned, partly because of economic problems during
4080-482: The early 1990s. Following the democratic reforms in the early 1990s, more proposals of administrative division reforms were widely discussed and ultimately caused some populous counties be reformed to special municipalities in the 2010 and 2014. These counties are: Currently, the counties are established according to the Local Government Act under the supervision of the Ministry of the Interior . This act also endorses some special articles that grants counties with
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#17327810915454160-446: The elevation of Chinese women's social status. The David Gregg Hospital for Women and Children (also known as Yuji Hospital 柔濟醫院) was affiliated with this college. The graduates of this college included CHAU Lee-sun (周理信, 1890–1979) and WONG Yuen-hing (黃婉卿), both of whom graduated in the late 1910s and then practiced medicine in the hospitals in Guangdong province. Dr. Fred P. Manget (1880–1979) went from Georgia, US, to Shanghai as
4240-414: The entire country to travel by foreigners and provided for freedom of religion in China. Protestant missionary activity increased quickly after this treaty and within two decades missionaries were present in nearly every major city and province of China. Protestant missionaries were indirectly responsible for the Taiping Rebellion , which convulsed southern and central China from 1850 to 1864. Experiencing
4320-581: The first fifty-three missionaries sent out....by the China Inland Mission, only twenty-two adults remained in the mission, and of these only four or five men and three or four women were much good. It took about five years of language study and work for a missionary to function in China—and many fledgling missionaries resigned or died before completing their tutelage. Overall, in the 19th century, although missionaries arriving in China were usually young and healthy, about one-half of missionaries resigned or died after less than 10 years of service. Health reasons were
4400-506: The first missionaries who followed him, life in China consisted of being confined to Portuguese Macao and the Thirteen Factories trading ghetto in Guangzhou (then known as "Canton") with only the reluctant support of the East India Company and confronting opposition from the Chinese government and from the Jesuits who had been established in China for more than a century. Morrison's early work mostly consisted of learning Classical Chinese , Cantonese , and Nanjing Mandarin ; compiling
4480-443: The head or leader shall be sentenced to immediate death by strangulation: he who propagates the religion, inflaming and deceiving the people, if the number be not large, and no names be given, shall be sentenced to strangulation after a period of imprisonment. Those who are merely hearers or followers of the doctrine, if they will not repent and recant, shall be transported to the Mohammedan cities (in Turkistan) and given to be slaves to
4560-425: The home director of the China Inland Mission, Benjamin Broomhall , was an active opponent of the opium trade; he wrote two books to promote banning opium smoking: Truth about Opium Smoking and The Chinese Opium Smoker . In 1888 Broomhall formed and became secretary of the "Christian Union for the Severance of the British Empire with the Opium Traffic" and editor of its periodical, National Righteousness . He lobbied
4640-436: The increase of Han Chinese population in Taiwan, the number of counties also grew by time. By the end of Qing era, there were 11 counties in Taiwan. Protestant missions in China first romanized the term as hien . Taiwan was ceded to Japan by the Treaty of Shimonoseki in 1895. The hierarchy of divisions also incorporated into the Japanese system in the period when Taiwan under Japanese rule . By September 1945, Taiwan
4720-407: The list of banned religions under the Qing Empire's statue against "Wizards, Witches, and All Superstitions". Existing statutes against Chinese travel abroad (as to the London Missionary Society's station at Malacca ) and against teaching foreigners to speak or read the Chinese language provided additional avenues for persecution. Upon his first attempt to print tracts for his village kinsmen, Liang Fa
4800-745: The mission schools with suspicion and it was often difficult for the Christian schools to attract pupils. The schools offered basic education to poor Chinese, both boys and girls. Before the time of the Chinese Republic , they would have otherwise received no formal schooling. Influential Protestant missionaries arriving in China in the nineteenth century included the Americans William Ament , Justus Doolittle , Chester Holcombe , Henry W. Luce , William Alexander Parsons Martin , Calvin Wilson Mateer , Lottie Moon , John Livingstone Nevius , and Arthur Henderson Smith . Prominent British missionaries included James Legge , Walter Henry Medhurst , Fred Charles Roberts , and William Edward Soothill . Prominent among
4880-417: The most modern medical facilities in China. The facilities included a chemistry laboratory, an X-ray facility and a Nursing School. Later, Japanese troops occupied Huzhou General Hospital. The family members of Dr. Manget were able to leave China for the US. However, Dr. Manget was not willing to leave China. When he saw how the Japanese troops treated the Chinese people, he pointed out their wrongdoing. As
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#17327810915454960-404: The most populous country in the world, received a large share of the attention of the burgeoning worldwide missionary movement. The China missionary lived an arduous life, especially in the 19th century. Attrition was high because of health problems and mental breakdowns. Learning the Chinese language was a long-term and difficult endeavor. A majority of missionaries proved to be ineffective. "Of
5040-399: The north China countryside. The Qing dynasty took the side of the Boxers, besieged the foreigners in Beijing in the Siege of the International Legations and was invaded by a coalition of foreign armies, the Eight Nation Alliance . The greatest loss of missionary lives was in Shanxi where, among others, all 15 members of the Oberlin Band were executed. The Eight Nation Alliance imposed
5120-420: The number of male missionaries in China. The rise of female missionaries to prominence was not without friction with men. An 1888 Baptist conference affirmed that "women's work in the foreign field must be careful to recognize the headship of men" and "the head of woman is the man." In China, due to cultural norms, male missionaries could not interact with Chinese women and thus the evangelical work among women
5200-418: The number of missionaries in China. By 1865 when Taylor created the China Inland Mission (CIM) there were 30 different Protestant groups at work in China. But in the seven provinces in which Protestant missionaries were working, there were an estimated 204 million people with only 91 workers. Eleven other provinces with a population estimated at 197 million, had no missionaries. Taylor and others aroused
5280-418: The principal reason for resignation. Mortality among children born to missionary couples was estimated to be three times that of infant mortality in rural England. In the late 19th century, health and living conditions began to improve as missionary organizations became more knowledgeable and the number of missionary doctors increased. A blow to the morale of China missionaries was their low rate of success in
5360-449: The rights of the missionaries only because of the superiority of Western naval and military power. Many Chinese associated the missionaries with Western imperialism and resented them, especially the educated classes who feared changes that might threaten their position. As the foreign and missionary presence in China grew, so also did Chinese resentment of foreigners. The Boxers were a peasant mass movement, stimulated by drought and floods in
5440-455: The social message of the missionaries began to compete with evangelism as a priority, the missionaries became more forthright in opposing the opium trade. In the 1890s, the effects of opium use were still largely undocumented by science. Protestant missionaries in China compiled data to demonstrate the harm of the drug, which they had observed. They were outraged that the British Royal Commission on Opium visited India but not China. They created
5520-410: The work is to be carried on not among the Chinese, but among the Mohammedans, who are in a large majority in that district. The new mission is interesting, in that it is an attack upon China from the west. Two German missionaries, accompanied by a doctor and a native Christian, will arive [ sic ] in Kashgar next spring and begin work. It may be added that the British and Foreign Bible Society
5600-696: The writer Mark Twain , who called Ament and his colleagues the "reverend bandits of the American Board". The Boxer Rebellion had a profound impact on both China and the West. The Qing government attempted reform and missionaries found the Chinese more receptive to both their evangelical and their "civilizing" message, but the West lost the certainty of its conviction that it had the right to impose its culture and religion on China. The China Centenary Missionary Conference in 1907 affirmed that education and health were of equal importance with evangelism although traditionalists complained that "education and health are no substitute for preaching." Missionary activities after
5680-458: Was a rapid growth of fundamentalist, Pentecostal and Jehovah Witness missionaries who remained committed to the conversion process. The May Fourth Movement criticized all traditional beliefs and religions. The 1922 study The Christian Occupation of China presented view of the liberal wing of the missionary establishment that control should be turned over to Chinese, but the unfortunate title made matters worse. The Anti-Christian campaigns of
5760-827: Was arrested, beaten on the soles of his feet with bamboo, and released only to pay a massive fine which Morrison on principle refused to help him with; instead, he used the savings he had laid aside for new houses for his wife and father. On the occasion, Morrison sanguinely noted that the conversion of China may well require many such martyrs. In 1826, the Daoguang Emperor revised the law against superstitions to provide for sentencing Europeans to death for spreading Christianity among Han Chinese and Manchus ("Tartars"). Christian converts who would not repent their conversion were to be sent to Muslim cities in Xinjiang and given as slaves to Muslim leaders and beys . People of
5840-832: Was broke out among the Muslims in Kashgar directed against the Swedish missionaries in 1923. In the name of Islam, the Uyghur leader Abdullah Bughra violently physically assaulted the Yarkand-based Swedish missionaries and would have executed them except they were only banished due to the British Aqsaqal's intercession in their favor. George W. Hunter noted that while Tungan Muslims ( Chinese Muslims ) would almost never prostitute their daughters, Turki Muslims ( Uyghurs ) would prostitute their daughters , which
5920-456: Was dedicated in 1902 and offered a four-year curriculum. By 1915, there were more than 60 students, mostly in residence. Most students became Christians, due to the influence of Dr. Fulton. The college was officially recognized, with its diplomas marked with the official stamp of the Guangdong provincial government. The college was aimed at the spreading of Christianity and modern medicine and
6000-465: Was divided into 8 prefectures ( 州 and 廳 ). After the retrocession to the China on 25 October 1945, the prefectures were reformed into eight counties ( 縣 ) with the same name under Taiwan Province of the Republic of China . Their roman spellings were also changed to reflect the official language shift from Japanese to Mandarin Chinese , but characters remained the same. Note that most of
6080-564: Was founded in Xiamen. By 1908 the majority of the Chinese elite had spoken out against footbinding and in 1911 the practice was prohibited, although the prohibition was not completely effective in remote areas. Missionaries affected Chinese body culture not only through discouraging footbinding. Since the late 19th century, the YMCA in particular played a very prominent role in spreading scientific approaches to physical education and amateur sports as
6160-497: Was interested in baptism. Nonetheless, as Morrison's first converts—Cai Gao, Liang Fa , Qu Ya'ang —were literate men who also became the first Chinese trained in western printing and lithography, they began to express his message in more effective terms and to print hundreds, then thousands, of tracts. Though Morrison and his fellows largely escaped punishment, his converts were much less lucky. Morrison's earliest efforts—even before his first convert—saw Christianity added (in 1812) to
6240-715: Was merged with Tainan City, all cities and townships became districts . On the eve of merging with Tainan City, the county consists of the following administrative divisions 22°59′00″N 120°11′00″E / 22.9833°N 120.1833°E / 22.9833; 120.1833 County (Taiwan) The counties were formerly under the jurisdiction of provinces, but the provinces were streamlined and effectively downsized to non-self-governing bodies in 1998, in 2018 all provincial governmental organs were formally abolished. Counties along with former " provincial cities " which alternately designated as simply "Cities", are presently regarded as principal subdivisions directed by
6320-647: Was the responsibility of missionary women. Female missionary doctors treated Chinese women and female missionaries managed girl's schools. Women missionaries were customarily paid less than men. The Methodists in the 1850s paid a male missionary to China a salary of 500 dollars per year, but the first two unmarried female missionaries the Methodists sent to China, Beulah and Sarah Woolston, received an annual salary of only 300 dollars each. The early unmarried female missionaries were required to live with missionary families. Later, unmarried women missionaries often shared
6400-518: Was why Turki prostitutes were common around the country. Swedish Christian missionary J. E. Lundahl wrote in 1917 that the local Muslim women in Xinjiang married Chinese men because of a lack of Chinese women, the relatives of the woman and other Muslims reviled the women for their marriages. —A number of British and German friends are subscribing to support a new mission with headquarters in Kashgar and Yarkand, two cities of Chinese Turkestan, and
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