基督教新教传教士在华南沿海的早期活动研究（1807---1851）

sionaries, Elijalh Coleman Bridgman and Dxdyid Abeel, arrived in Guangzhou. They were sent by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, which made the decision to begin its China mission pushed forward by American Churches, merchants and Robert Morrison. The American Board continually sent missionaries to Guangzhou, and its China mission became the main Protestant influence in China before the Opium War. Before 1840, there were some missionaries from other countries and societies came to China, including an independent missionary Charles Gutzlaff from Prussia, Lewis Shuck and I. J. Roberts sent by the American Baptist Board for Foreign Missions, Henry Lockwood and Francis R. Hanson sent by the Bosrd of Foreign missions of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States, and Tradescant Lay of British and Foreign Bible Society. Chapter 2 of this thesis is based on the research on the activities of above-mentioned missionaries.

After the Opium War, under the diplomatic pressure of the west powers, the Qing government were forced to give up the policy of forbidding the propagation of Christianity, Protestant missions, like that of Catholic, gained legal status, and they could begin the process of expansion. During the Opium War, Protestant missionaries took Macao as their shelter. After the occupation of Hong Kong by the British according to the Nanjing Treaty, all the denominations who sent missionaries to China moved their miss

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