Name two missionaries who spent time in china during this time?

Answer 1

During the Opium Treaty period, the two missionaries who spent time in China were James Hudson Taylor, who founded the China Inland Ministry, and had an appreciation of Chinese culture. At a point, he began wearing Chinese styled clothing, a rarity among missionaries. Robert Morrison was the first Christian Protestant missionary in China. It took him twenty-five years to complete his greatest task, that of translating The Bible into Chinese. In a total of twenty-seven years in China, he only returned to Britain one time.

Answer 2

A:Under the 'unequal treaties' settlements of 1842-44 following the First Opium War (1839-42), the old 1724 prohibition against belief in Christianity was lifted, and Christian proselytising in China was greatly facilitated. More important concessions were gained by the missionaries in the treaties of 1858-60. These permitted travel and the propagation of Christianity anywhere in the interior of China.

The Taiping Rebellion (1851-64) against the alien Manchu dynasty was one of the most devastating civil wars in human history. The Taipings are best understood as a Chinese heterodox millenarian sect with a syncretic Christian veneer derived from limited contact with Protestant missionaries, but in the eyes of government officials and the gentry class, the Taipings were Christians. The Qing state considered the Taipings to be dangerous ideological heretics, making it more difficult for Western missionaries to enter the country and the Chinese Church to flourish.

In the minds of many Chinese, opium and Christianity were closely associated. Missionaries, both Protestant and Catholic, depended on the opium connection. Many travelled to China in ships carrying opium, their funds were remitted via opium traders and their charitable or educational work relied on donations from resident Western firms connected with the opium trade. An example of the reckless operations of some missionaries was the Prussian Lutheran independent missionary Karl Friedrich August Gutzlaff, who made several attempts in the 1830s gain direct access to China in foreign ships smuggling opium to points along the Chinese coast.

After 1860 missions were established in all the new coastal and riverine treaty ports, and from there began to spread into the interior.

Answer 3

One missionary who spent a lot of time in China was Lottie Moon. Another missionary who spent time in China is Paivo Parviainen.

Answer 4

Hudson Taylor and Jonathan Goforth

Answer 5

Mike Hawk and Ben Dover