基督教新教传教士在华南沿海的早期活动研究（1807---1851）

attacked the opium trade because of moral reason and consideration of missionary interests. However, all of them supported and greeted the Opium War aiming at the opening of China unreservedly. During the 1840s, the Protestant missionaries took part in the process of the Sino-Western relations. American missionaries Peter Parker and Elijah C. Bridgman were the advocators of the foundation of American-Chinese diplomatic relations, and they joined the negotiations as the Chinese interpreters of the minister of the U. S. Some incidents invoked by the Protestant missionaries became the origins or pretexts of the expansions of the interests of the Western powers. The incidents were: Dxdyid and Walter M. Lowrie’s unpermitted visit to Zhangzhou, the case of the murder of Walter M. Lowrie’, I. J. Roberts’ claim, the Qingpu missionary case, and the Shenguang Temple case.  The fourth chapter of this thesis investigates and analyses the facts stated above, and points out that there was a natural alliance formed by missionaries and the Western aggressive political and military forces, and the missionaries were benefited for helping their governments.

In the first part of the 19th century, the Protestant missionaries to China made great efforts in medical and educational fields for common Chinese people, using their quite limited financial resources. In the practice of missionary and medical works, Peter Parker, T

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