光绪四年呼兰教案简论

Simple Analysis of the Missionary Case of Hulan in Guangxu Four Years

"人为刀俎我为鱼肉"似乎是对晚清中国社会最好的诠释。国家羸弱,军队疲软,任各西方列强欺凌而无力回击,自鸦片战争起,先后签订了《南京条约》等一系列不平等条约,使得西方列强在中国攫取大量政治权利和经济利益。十九世纪末叶的中国陷入了民间反抗此起彼伏的巨大旋涡和风诡云谲、动荡不安的困局。特别是随着传教士不断地深入中国内地,更是发生了一起起教案,掀起了一场场中国人民反教活动。

'To be meat on somebody's chopping block,to be at the mercy of somebody' seems to be the best interpretation of the late Qing Dynasty Chinese society. National forces and army weak,any of various Western powers bullying and unable to resist,since the Opium War,has signed the ' Treaty of Nanjing ' and a series of unequal treaties,the Western powers to take a lot of political rights and economic interests in Chinese. At the end of the nineteenth Century the China in civil disobedience the huge vortex and the turbulent dilemma. Especially with the deepening of Chinese missionary mainland,but also changed with the church plan,launched a field Chinese people against missionary activities.