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The Christian mission schools established by missionaries were the foundation for China's modern school system. And the schools played an important role in the modernization of China. As Christian missionaries went to work among the Chinese they founded schools. Here they introduced modern curricula including science and teaching methhods. They also introduced the latest developments in Westerm medicine. These mission schools were viewed with suspicion by traditional Chinese educators as well as nationalist forces. The missionaries and their Chinese converts were targets of the Boxers at the turn of the 20th century. . Besides the different curriculum they were the fitst Chinese schools to offer a basic education to not only poor Chinese, but to both boys and girls. Girls until the Republic (1911) were not educated outside the home. Japan invaded China (1937). American and European missionaries were generally treated as neutrals and the schools continued to operate. After Pearl Harbor Europen national were largely interned and the mission schools seized. Some continued to operate for ahile with Chinesestaff, but many of of staff and students were eventually interned as well. The Japanese regarded Chinese Christianswith great suspicion. The Chinese mission schools that managed to survive were finally closed by the Communists after their victory in the Civil War (1949).
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