
Published online:
18 May 2017
Published in print:
22 November 2016
Online ISBN:
9780300225266
Print ISBN:
9780300217070
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Southern Instability, Northern Unrest Southern Instability, Northern Unrest
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Enemies Everywhere: Communists and Nationalists Enemies Everywhere: Communists and Nationalists
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A Petition, a Betrayal A Petition, a Betrayal
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Back in Europe: The Nazi Deathblow Back in Europe: The Nazi Deathblow
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The Japanese Threat The Japanese Threat
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Baptism by Fire Baptism by Fire
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Conclusions: A Persistent Suspicion Conclusions: A Persistent Suspicion
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Chapter
Seven Unfulfilled Promises
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Pages
190–219
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Published:November 2016
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Wu, Albert Monshan, 'Unfulfilled Promises', From Christ to Confucius: German Missionaries, Chinese Christians, and the Globalization of Christianity, 1860-1950 (New Haven, CT , 2016; online edn, Yale Scholarship Online, 18 May 2017), https://doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300217070.003.0008, accessed 5 May 2025.
Abstract
This chapter asks: If by the 1920s, both German missionary societies had embraced the impetus to transfer control to Chinese church leaders, why did independence still remain such a slow and arduous process? The chapter argues that persistent political, social, and economic instability hindered the missionaries from giving their Chinese Christian leaders more power. The Chinese themselves also thought that they were not ready for church independence. Ultimately, a series of catastrophic political events—the escalation of the Sino-Japanese War in the 1930s and the rise of the Nazi Party in Germany in 1933—catalyzed the Germans to relinquish their power.
Keywords:
Sino-Japanese War, World War II, National Socialism, indigenization, Communism, Chinese Nationalists
Subject
History of Christianity
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