Space, The Scramble For Resources And Research, The Late Qing Shandong Lesson Plans

In the Late Qing Dynasty, the anti-church case(Jiao-an) or conflicts between the common people and the church forces in Shandong was mainly caused by a series of collisions between the Catholic and the local society in the spread of the Catholic belief.The core problems of this paper are the deep reason and the intrinsic nature of these collisions. And the viewpoint of this paper is that collisions between the Catholic and the local society are mainly caused by fighting for and reallocating social space and resources. This paper will use fighting for space and resources as a strarting point to investigate Shandong Jiao-an in the Late Qing Dynasty. This paper will select LiYuantun and Yanzhou Jiao-an as typical model cases of fighting for nonmaterial resources.And select southwest Shandong Jiao-an as typical model cases of fighting for material resources.LiYuantun Jiao-an was caused by the missionary and catholic who wanted to set up church in the location of Jade Emperor's Temple.This Jiao-an was in deep connection with the Jade Emperor belief of the villager of rural areas.So the Jiao-an could be regard as the conflict between God and Jade Emperor. In traditional country-life the Jade Emperor's Temple had become the public space of culture and belief within the village community.But the church was a totally different space. Under the support of the imperialist power this strange space thrust itself in the village community and occupied the public belief space.At the same time, the church forces began to fight for the political resources and political space of the village community. In order to maintain the resources and the space order, the village community elite especially the lower class allied itself with the folk society and carried the struggle through to the end. Thus the fighting for space between the church and the village or village groups became even more severe and grew into the Yihetuan Movement.Yanzhou Jiao-an was caused by Anzer's trying to set up church in Yanzhou city. Anzer was the bishop of German Society of the Divine Word. And Yanzhou was the Holy Land of Confucianism.So this Jiao-an could be regarded as the conflict between God and Confucius.As the native place of Sage Kong,Yanzhou had already become the space of Confucian culture and belief.The feduel esquires and local officials of Yanzhou controlled a variety resources in this space such as cultural resources, belief resources and consensus resources.And these resources again turned into their...