The sources of anti-Christian feeling were many and complex. On the more intangible side, there was a general pique against the unwanted intrusion of the Western countries; there was an understandable tendency to seek an external scapegoat for internal disorders only tangentially attributable to the West and perhaps most important, there was a virile tradition of ethnocentricism, vented long before against Indian Buddhism, which, since the seventeenth century, focused on Western Christianity. Accordingly, even before the missionary movement really got under way in the mid-nineteenth century, it was already at a disadvantage. After 1860, as missionary activity in the hinterland expanded, it quickly became apparent that in addition to the intangibles, numerous tangible grounds for Chinese hostility abounded.
In part, the very presence of the missionary evoked attack. They were, after all, the first foreigners to leave the treaty ports and venture into the interior, and for
A. the mere presence of invaders
B. a generalized unfocused feeling
C. the introduction to the West
D. none of the above
| The sources of anti-Christian feeling
were many and complex. On the more intangible side, there was a general pique
against the unwanted intrusion of the Western countries; there was an
understandable tendency to seek an external scapegoat for internal disorders
only tangentially attributable to the West and perhaps most important, there was
a virile tradition of ethnocentrism, vented long before against Indian Buddhism,
which, since the seventeenth century, focused on Western Christianity.
Accordingly, even before the missionary movement really got under may in the
mid-nineteenth century, it was already at a disadvantage. After 1860, as
missionary activity in the hinterland expanded, it quickly became apparent that
in addition to the intangibles, numerous tangible grounds for Chinese hostility
abounded. In part, the very presence of the missionary evoke A. the mere presence of invaders B. a generalized unfocused feeling C. the introduction to the West D. none of the above [单项选择]The sources of anti-Christian feeling were many and complex. On the more intangible side, there was a general pique against the unwanted intrusion of the Western countries; there was an understandable tendency to seek an external scapegoat for internal disorders only tangentially attributable to the West and perhaps most important, there was a virile tradition of ethnocentricism, vented long before against Indian Buddhism, which, since the seventeenth century, focused on Western Christianity. Accordingly, even before the missionary movement really got under way in the mid-nineteenth century, it was already at a disadvantage. After 1860, as missionary activity in the hinterland expanded, it quickly became apparent that in addition to the intangibles, numerous tangible grounds for Chinese hostility abounded.
In part, the very presence of the missionary evoked attack. They were, after all, the first foreigners to leave the treaty ports and venture into the interior, and for a long ti A. There’s many a slip between the cup and the lip. B. You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make him drink. C. All that glitters is not gold. D. All of the above apply in various ways to the dichotomy. 我来回答: 提交
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