晚清昭通第一次教案评述

Commentary on the First Religious Case of the Chaotung

作为一种外来性宗教,基督教一直谋求向世界包括中国进行积极的传播。但它在中国的传播过程中,由于与中国传统文化的异质性,在相当长时期内曾遭受着中国各阶层势同水火的排拒。近代中国历史上教案频发,民、教冲突是其主要因素,但从细节分析则各有不同。在这样的时代背景下,作为天主教传入云南最早地区的昭通,也曾在晚清数十年内发生过三次教案。即以1862年发生的第一次教案来看,虽然事件并不复杂,也未造成人员损伤,但从案发到交涉,再到最后结案耗时绵长;从它的全过程来看,除了具有与当时其他地方教案的一些共性特征之外,也有其自身独特的地方。回顾这一教案,有助于补充昭通历史的某些细节。

As a foreign religion, Christianity has been pursuing to expand their ideas of religious actively to all parts of the world including China. When Christianity was propagated to China, they also had experienced strongest boycott for a long time that came from Chinese people of all ranks and classes due to the heterogeneity with the Chinese traditional cul- ture. The religious cases that conflicts between Chinese people and church are happening with increasing frequency in modern Chinese history for various reasons. In such a context, as the first Catholicism District of Yunnan province, Cha- otung also had occurred the religious case three times for several decades in the late Qing dynasty. Religious cases of Cha- otung for the first time occurred in 1862 and it lasted a very long time although the case was not complicated even there were no personnel injuries. Compared with the religious cases occurred in other part of the China ,the case of Chaotung had both of the common characteristics and its own unique place. The review on the case would contribute to study the history of Chaotung.