反洋教斗争:文化冲突乎?排斥进步文化乎?

Anti-Foreign-Religion Movement: Conflict or Culture or Discrimination against Advanced Culture?

所谓“‘义和团反洋教活动起因是中西文化冲突’，是‘排斥进步的西方文化’”的观点，既无史实依据又无理论根据。基督教等西方宗教并不是当时西方国家的进步文化；少数传教士以“传教”为幌子，推行的是本国政府的对华文化侵略政策；传教士强迫中国民众接受西方宗教文化由此引发的“文化冲突”，实质上是中国民众对西方殖民文化的反抗；传教士在华开办学堂、创办报纸等活动确实传播了某些西方进步文化，但这并非传教士的主体活动，且“教案”冲突也并非固此引起。

The idea that the Yihetuan (the Boxers) anti-foreign-religion movement was caused by culture conflict and discrimination against advanced western culture is groundless historically and theoretically. Such western religions as Christianity did not represent advanced western culture at that time. Under the cloak of "missionary tasks,some, missionaries pursued their governments policy of culture aggression against China. The culture conflict" caused by western religions im- posed on the Chinese people by the ...