Discussion on the Influence by the Missionaries' Chinese Reports and Researches on Western World in Modern Time

The missionaries who come to China largely reported and deeply researched China and handed down numerous relational foreign language writings.These activities brought about important influence on western world.The particular representations were as follows:the role of gathering information to colonist and providing policy decision reference to the institutions of western government and missions;the role of transmitting knowledge and information to western people;the role of missionary advocacy to western religion groups and Christian populace;the role of pushing forward western(especially American) Sinology to modern transformation.These aspects deeply suggested the characteristics of role of modern missionaries between cultural peddler and communicator,and reflected the characteristics of western and eastern cultural exchange in modern time as well.