Christianity In The Development And Culture And Education In Modern Hunan Charity

After being spreaded into Hunan, Christianity was closely connected with Hunan's society in modern time. And the scope of connection includes poli-tics, economy, culture and so on. Therefore, Christianity is one of the impor-tant research problems. The thesis will emphatically inspect into the develop-ment condition of Christianity, explored and analysed the social activities done by Christianity. The thesis is divided into three parts.llie first part macroscopicly analyse the development process of Christian-ity in Hunan' s modern time. From the time Christianity coming into Hunan a-gain to the moment the western missionaries withdrew form Hunan clearly, the development of Christianity had generally experienced three periods. That is , it was only hard sowing in Hunan Province from 1863 to 1900, and from 1901 to 1925 Christianity was being smoothly spreaded, but the good time was short, it was in turbulent situation and on the wane from 1926 to 1950. Though every period had its own characters, the development of Christianity was effected all the time by many factors, such as the politic conditions of o-versea and home, people's social minds,missionaries' missionary policy and means.The second part succinctly introduces the culture and education cause run by Christianity. The mission schools in modem Hunan had many characters, for instance, the school system was complete, their facilities were advanced, their management was strict and English and phisycal education were empha-sized . It was these characters that made the mission schools have an important influence on Hunan's modem history. The mission schools were an important part of Hunan s modern education , promoted the modernization of Hunan seducation and cultivated some talents. Compared with mission education, thebook and newspaper cause was back ward, whose influence was small.The third part systematically investigates the philanthropy run by mis-sions, which includes medical treatment and hygiene, relieving the people in stricken areas and providing disaster relief, and foundling and kindly love. Hie philanthropy run by missions had many forms, and had done good on many aspects. It is embodied by the facts that the philanthropy eliminated people's diseases and relieved the masses' weal and woe.After having investigated and analysed the culture and education cause and philanthropy run by Christianity in Hunan, the thesis thinks that when we concretely evaluate Christianity, the much attention should be paid to the points as follows:Hie motive of western missionaries who came into China is different, but the large part of them is in order to spread Christ's Gospel; We should specificly analyse each movement done by missionaries; The social ac-tivities run by missions is useful to the modernization process of related fields; Chinese missionaries have played important role in the social activities run by missions.