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How Korean Christians and Korean missionaries understood the Boxer Uprising
Lee, Hyewon Helen
Lee, Hyewon Helen
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"This article is a historical research on the understanding of Korean Christians and Korea missionaries of the Boxer uprising. First, this article briefly illustrates the Boxer uprising’s influence on Korean Christianity. From 1900 to 1901, anti-Christian movements happened more frequently than in the late 1800s in Korea. Korean Christians who immigrated and were living in Manchuria were attacked by the Boxers directly, and churches were destroyed. Furthermore, four Anglican missionaries in Korea were dispatched to the hospital in Shandong, China to treat foreign soldiers who had been wounded during the Boxer war, and as a result three out of four Anglican hospitals in Korea had to shut down. Many Korean churches provided shelters, food and travel expenses to Chinese Christian refugees who fled to Korea. Also Korean Christians gathered relief contributions for Chinese churches that were destroyed during the war. Next, this article describes Korean Christians’ and Korea missionaries’ understanding of the Boxers through Christian journals and personal reports. Christian journals focused more on the religious figures of the uprising than public mass media; they also emphasized the loss of Protestant property over the loss of Catholic property. Missionaries regarded the Boxer movement as an anti-imperial, anti-foreign movement rather than as an anti-Christian movement. Also they worried about an outbreak of a war between Russia and Japan after the Boxer war because the mission work in Korea would be directly affected."
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2014
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