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Fuzhou Protestants and the Making of a Modern China, 1857-1927 (Paperback)
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Fuzhou Protestants and the Making of a Modern China, 1857-1927 (Paperback)
Series: Yale Historical Publications Series
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In this groundbreaking examination of Chinese Protestants and their
place in the history of modern China, Ryan Dunch focuses on the
Fuzhou area of southeast China from the mid-nineteenth century
until 1927, when a national revolutionary government was
established. Though accounting for only a small proportion of the
population, Protestants occupied a central place in Fuzhou’s
political, intellectual, and social life, Dunch contends. He shows
how Chinese Protestants, with a distinctive vision for constituting
China as a modern nation-state, contributed to the dissolution of
the imperial regime, enjoyed unprecedented popularity following the
1911 revolution, and then saw their dreams for social and political
change dashed. Dunch draws on previously untapped Chinese-language
sources and on mission archives and publications to understand how
Chinese Protestants saw themselves and to situate them within local
Chinese society. He explores how the missionary presence diffused
not only religion but also notions of nationalism and identity and
models of political ritual. The book concludes with a discussion of
the discrediting of Protestant nationalism and the frustration of
Protestant hopes for China’s swift conversion to Christianity.
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