He Zhaowu doubts the function of the west missionaries who came to China in the late of Ming and early Qing Dynasties in his book: On the History of Cultural Communication of the East and the West. He argues that near...He Zhaowu doubts the function of the west missionaries who came to China in the late of Ming and early Qing Dynasties in his book: On the History of Cultural Communication of the East and the West. He argues that nearly all of the missionaries who came to China in the two centuries were dispatched by the Jesuits. They didn’t introduce the new thoughts and cultures of the west but the theology and scholasticism of the middle age of Europe. If they introduced the former the result would be different to the modernization of China.展开更多
文摘He Zhaowu doubts the function of the west missionaries who came to China in the late of Ming and early Qing Dynasties in his book: On the History of Cultural Communication of the East and the West. He argues that nearly all of the missionaries who came to China in the two centuries were dispatched by the Jesuits. They didn’t introduce the new thoughts and cultures of the west but the theology and scholasticism of the middle age of Europe. If they introduced the former the result would be different to the modernization of China.