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Since the early 1990s, China has witnessed an influx of international NGOs, many of which have Christianity as their foundation. The presence of international Christian agencies in China, however, is not new. Christian missionaries went to China in the age of imperialism. Historians argue the work of missionaries was inextricably linked to the idea of a ‘civilizing mission’. This book critically assesses the idea of a Christian ‘civilizing mission’ over time, and explores the relevance of the idea to the contemporary context. By examining the non-Han people’s perception of international Christian agencies, this book advocates the importance of engagement through in-depth dialogue between international Christian NGOs and ethnic communities.
Miwa Hirono is an RCUK Research Fellow at the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham. She taught at the Department of International Relations at the Australian National University, where she was awarded a Ph.D. in International Relations. She was a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Anthropology and Ethnology at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing (2003-2004), and conducted extensive fieldwork throughout many provinces and autonomous regions in China.
Introduction * PART I: THEORY AND HISTORY * ‘Civilizing Missions’ and Ethnic Communities in China * The Chinese State as a Civilizer of Ethnic Communities: Civilization and Religion in Chinese History * Evangelism and Its Unintended Consequence: Christian Missionaries in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries * PART II: CONTEMPORARY ‘CIVILIZING MISSIONS’? * Introduction * A Christian Evangelism in a Tibetan Buddhist Community: The Jian Hua Foundation (JHF) * Presence Evangelism: The Salvation Army * A Secular Use of Local Religion: Oxfam Hong Kong * Conclusion
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