Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 1 Eurasian Encounters: Cross-border Intellectual and Cultural Exchange, 1900-1950
- Part I Artistic Spaces
- 2 The Museum at Aundh: Reflecting on Citizenship and the Art Museum in the Colony
- 3 Exhibiting the Nation: Cultural Flows, Transnational Exchanges, and the Development of Museums in Japan and China, 1900-1950
- 4 Parallel Tracks: Pan Yuliang and Amrita Sher-Gil in Paris
- 5 Bauhaus and Tea Ceremony: A Study of Mutual Impact in Design Education between Germany and Japan in the Interwar Period
- Part II Missions and Education
- 6 Schooling a Missionary in Early Twentieth-Century Eastern India
- 7 The Catholic Church in China in the First Half of the Twentieth Century: The Establishment of Zhendan University and Furen University
- Part III Shared Trajectories, New Subjectivities
- 8 Indigenizing Cosmopolitanism: Shifting Metropolitan Subjectivities in Twentieth-century Colombo
- 9 Fighting for the Soviet Empire: War Propaganda Production and Localized Discourses on Soviet Patriotism in Uzbekistan during the Second World War
- 10 Shared Origins, Shared Outcomes?: Transcultural Trajectories of Germany and Japan during the Asia-Pacific War
- Index
7 - The Catholic Church in China in the First Half of the Twentieth Century: The Establishment of Zhendan University and Furen University
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 December 2020
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 1 Eurasian Encounters: Cross-border Intellectual and Cultural Exchange, 1900-1950
- Part I Artistic Spaces
- 2 The Museum at Aundh: Reflecting on Citizenship and the Art Museum in the Colony
- 3 Exhibiting the Nation: Cultural Flows, Transnational Exchanges, and the Development of Museums in Japan and China, 1900-1950
- 4 Parallel Tracks: Pan Yuliang and Amrita Sher-Gil in Paris
- 5 Bauhaus and Tea Ceremony: A Study of Mutual Impact in Design Education between Germany and Japan in the Interwar Period
- Part II Missions and Education
- 6 Schooling a Missionary in Early Twentieth-Century Eastern India
- 7 The Catholic Church in China in the First Half of the Twentieth Century: The Establishment of Zhendan University and Furen University
- Part III Shared Trajectories, New Subjectivities
- 8 Indigenizing Cosmopolitanism: Shifting Metropolitan Subjectivities in Twentieth-century Colombo
- 9 Fighting for the Soviet Empire: War Propaganda Production and Localized Discourses on Soviet Patriotism in Uzbekistan during the Second World War
- 10 Shared Origins, Shared Outcomes?: Transcultural Trajectories of Germany and Japan during the Asia-Pacific War
- Index
Summary
Abstract
This chapter evaluates Chinese-foreign relations in the development of Christianity in China in the first half of the twentieth century. It addresses the Catholic Church and highlights both the cooperative nature of Chinese-foreign relations, which casual viewers were prone to overlook, and the co-existing disputes, which affected both the Chinese people and the foreign missionaries. Traditionally, the history of Christianity in China has largely been described as one of conflict owing to the social, cultural, and ethnic differences between Chinese and foreign missionaries. This chapter studies the interactions between Chinese intellectuals and foreign missionaries in the establishment of Zhendan University in Shanghai (1903-1952) and Furen University in Beijing (1925-1952). It argues that the history of Chinese Christianity was one of cross-cultural relations and mutual exchange. It explores the cross-cultural relations between the Chinese Christian intellectuals Ma Xiangbo, Ying Lianzhi, and Chen Yuan, and foreign Catholic missionaries.
In the early twentieth century, China was the most popular country for missionaries, Catholics and Protestants alike, to preach the Good News and to convert the local people to Christianity. Traditionally, the history of Christianity in China has largely been described as one of conflict, owing to the social, cultural, and ethnic differences between foreign missionaries and the Chinese population. This chapter critically evaluates Chinese-foreign relations in the development of Christianity in modern China. It addresses the Catholic Church and elucidates both the cooperative nature of Chinese-foreign relations, which casual viewers were prone to overlook, and contemporaneous disputes, which affected both the Chinese people and the foreign missionaries.
This chapter examines an important contribution of the Catholic Church to China. It focuses on the concerted efforts of the Church in establishing and developing two institutions of higher elite education, which were Zhendan University (Aurora University, 1903-1952) in Shanghai and Furen University (1925-1952) in Beijing. It examines their missions and visions in providing higher education for the young generation. The two universities undertook the task of cultivating the elite for contributing to China’s modernization and upholding Catholic beliefs and values for the future.
In addition, this chapter studies the interactions between Chinese intellectuals and foreign missionaries in the establishment and progression of the two universities.
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- Eurasian EncountersMuseums, Missions, Modernities, pp. 155 - 176Publisher: Amsterdam University PressPrint publication year: 2017