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The history of Quakerism in Sichuan (or "West China")[a] began in 1887 when missionaries began to arrive from the United Kingdom. Missionaries founded schools and established meeting groups. Nonetheless, missionary activity in China generated controversy among many native Chinese and faced armed opposition during both the Boxer Rebellion and the later Chinese Communist Revolution. Although the former did not affect Sichuan so much as some other parts of China, the province was one of the hotbeds of anti-missionary riots throughout its ecclesiastical history.[1]
Numerous mission properties and native church leaders in Sichuan were respectively destroyed and killed by communists in the mid-1930s.[2] Missionaries were expelled and activity ceased after the communist take over of China in 1949. Under government oppression, ties were cut with foreign Quaker groups, and Quakerism in Sichuan was merged into the Three-Self Patriotic Church.
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- ^ Lü 1976, p. 282.
- ^ Plewman 1936, pp. 11–18.