An Exploration On Famine View Of The Missionaries In China

This thesis tries to make a comprehensive, systematic inspection on the motivation, the practice and the thought about disaster relief of the missionaries in China Late-Qing, as a main source of Famine Reports in Chinese Globe Magazine, with the background of times and the western Christian culture, focusing on the features and the impact on modern China of famine view of the missionaries in China. It is concluded that there is strong religious overtones and the tendency of political interference in China in famine view of the missionaries. However, it has scientific and progress side, helping to promote the modernization process of China in political system, ideology and social improvement.