The "Narrow Gate" Before The Brightness: Protestant Education For The Blind In The Modern China

There has been a question on how to spread and how to be accepted by Chinese when Christianity, a exotic religion, was firstly promulgated to China. All the missionaries who have been China during the different period thought over various methods and hoped to take God ' s Word to eastern civilians. Taking on the education for the blind is the one of ways which was used to spread around Christianity in the modern Chinese society.The educational undertaking of the blind person beginning in China, have extensive and deep social backgrounds. First of all, it has met the reality of the Chinese society's needs, and has offered a modernity method to the daily needs of solving the blind person; Secondly, it meet Christ Protestantism preach change of way to China, represented Christianity " good news " behavior " socialized "; Finally, the development of the modern natural science and humanities open up precondition of inaugurating.the educational undertaking for the blind.The educational undertaking for the blind. go through a historical process---early relieve, development, prosperity, predicament and wingding-up; The students have various source, which had been limited to religionists children at first, and was expanded gradually on later stage; The course of the school is made up of cultural and religious lesson, craft lesson, music lesson and sports and hygiene lesson; The fund can stem from the priest subsidize, the imbrues of various missionaries, government allocating funds, kind person offerring and craft income,etc; The graduates can't try the wishing to be engaged in religion of the priest will, but disperse in all respects of the Chinese society. Besides directly opening up the schools, some articles which was released by the missionaries on the Christ publication offer reference for Chinese who want to manage the school for the blind by oneself through the introduction of Chinese and foreign schools for the blind.As an educational undertaking, in the past, Christ education for the blind makes contribution to opening up the Chinese special educational enterprise and guiding Chinese to run the school for the blind; Today, these schools for the blind still give play to the role of serving the blind person under the supervision of the people's government. As an action of charity, running the school for the blind not only breaks through the traditional relief idea to lay stress on " giving " and make light of " teaching ", but also combines the two together. Thi idea has offered a brand-new method for the social relief.The purport of the thesis lies in probe into its meaning in China's special history of education and charity, and explain its role in China's early modernization by exploring the origin and development of Christ school for the blind.