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During World War II, China was devastated by the Second Sino-Japanese War which countered a Japanese invasion, and by the Chinese Civil War which resulted in the separation of Taiwan from mainland China. In this period the Chinese Christian churches and organizations had their first experience with autonomy from the Western structures of the ...
In Chinese eyes, Christianity was associated with opium, the Taiping Rebellion with its millions of dead, imperialism, and the special privileges granted foreigners and Christian converts under the Unequal Treaties. A Chinese nobleman said of the European and American presence in China: "Take away your missionaries and your opium and you will ...
Soviet Storm: World War II in the East: Anna Grazhdan 2012 United States Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States: Oliver Stone: 2013 United States The Ghost Army: Rick Beyer 2014 United States Second War Diary: The War Day by Day: José Delgado 2015 Germany Hostages of the SS Christian Frey 2016 Australia A Long Way Back: Samm Blake ...
Gladys May Aylward (24 February 1902 – 3 January 1970) was a British-born evangelical Christian missionary to China, whose story was told in the book The Small Woman: The Heroic Story of Gladys Aylward, by Alan Burgess, published in 1957.
Wilhelmina "Minnie" Vautrin (September 27, 1886 – May 14, 1941) was an American missionary, diarist, educator and president of Ginling College.A Christian missionary in China for 28 years, she became known for caring for and protecting at least 10,000 Chinese refugees during the Nanjing Massacre in China, during which she kept a now-published diary, [1] at times even challenging the Japanese ...
Hong sought the religious conversion of the Han people to his syncretic version of Christianity, as well as the political overthrow of the Qing dynasty, and a general transformation of the mechanisms of state. [5] [6] Moreover, rather than supplanting China's ruling class, the Taiping rebels sought to entirely upend the country's social order. [7]
China's Lost Girls (2004) From China with Love (2004) China in the Red (2003) Morning Sun (2003) China 21 (2001) American Experience: Nixon's China Game (2000) Citizen Hong Kong (1999) Comrades (1999) Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square (1998) China: A Century of Revolution – Part Three: Born Under the Red Flag 1976-1997 (1997) The Gate of Heavenly ...
The story is set in Nanjing, China, during the 1937 Nanjing Massacre in the Second Sino-Japanese War. A group of escapees, finding sanctuary in a church compound, try to survive the Japanese atrocities. [5] [6] It was selected as the Chinese entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards, [7] [8] [9] but did not make the final ...