Christianity and the May Fourth Intellectuals: A Study of the Anti-Christian Movement in China, 1922–1927

Author: Yang Tianhong
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Publish Date: 2005-07-01
Features: Christianity and Modern Chinese Intellectuals: A Study of the Non-Christian Movement in China, 1922–1927 Since the 19th century, with the emergence of evolutionism, science, and philosophy, a movement aimed at critiquing religious and supernatural culture with humanism as its has sprung up in Europe and America. The Non-Christian Movement in China has followed its flow and wave, developing into a nationwide ideological, cultural, and political movement. To a certain extent influenced by the modern Enlightenment in the West, this movement appeared in the form and manner of the "anti-foreign religion" movements initiated by traditional scholars in late Qing history, and was a relatively rational movement opposing religious and supernatural culture with secular humanism. It is a continuation of the New Culture Movement and an important part of the Chinese nationalism movement in the 1920s. The evaluation of Christianity and its missionary work in China is also elaborated in this book.