Yan Fu's Interpretation on Christianity and Cultural Communication

Yan Fu was a Chinese enlightening thinker who proposed to learn from the West in an all-round way in modern time.He was also a pioneer who made a comparative study of Chinese and Western philosophies and their cultures.His comparative study on Confucianism and Christianity showed the foreign characteristics of the two cultural systems.His thought of Christianity and religion had a background and spiritual features of Chinese traditional culture.So to speak,Yan Fu's religious thought represents several Chinese scholars who took a firm stand of the native culture to absorb the foreign religions and cultural thought,and help to bring about a happy union of Chinese and Western cultures.