History of Christianity in China
by Wang Meixiu
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Christianity is one of the major religions in the world with a history of nearly 2,000 years and has been introduced to China for more than 1,300 years. Although Christianity has a long history in China and has gone through several different historical stages including the Tang Dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty, the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, and the 19th century to the present day, its vitality has been very fragile over a long historical period. Christianity was once glorious because it was favored by feudal rulers, but it also eclipsed or disappeared because it lost the favor of the current rulers or due to the change of dynasties. Only in the 19th century, under the protection of a series of unequal treaties signed between the Western imperialist powers and the Qing government, did it take root, blossom, and bear fruit in the land of China. From the perspective of the development process, the history of Christianity in China is like a river with a trickle at its source and an increasingly wider downstream. Its content becomes simpler as it gets older, richer as it gets closer, and more subtle and complex.
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