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Against Christianity 43–44 adjustment to PRC 295–96, 310–15, 342, Agricultural Improvement Station 185 353 alternative medicine 168–69, 179 challenges to postwar work of 209–11, American Baptist Mission 278 249–55 American Baptist Mission Board 285, 286 and change in political climate 252–53 American Board of Commissioners for creation of 1–2, 4–5, 101–3, 112–16, Foreign Missions (ABCFM) 83, 92, 93 146–47, 348–49 American Presbyterian Church Mission and denunciation movement 315–22 Board 282 educational work of 149–68 Anderson, Rufus 47 end of 332–41, 343, 354 Andrews, John 124 establishment of Chuanxi and Xikang animal husbandry 183–85, 241–42, 335 service fields 131–38 animal plague 188–89, 242 ethno-religious composition of service “Anti-Christianity Propaganda Outline” fields 258–61 43–44 evangelism embedded in programs anti-Christian movement(s) of 256–58, 289–94, 352–53 Boxer Uprising 28, 33–34, 35 facilities ended or transferred to CCC as solution to 46, 59 government 332–40 and modern destruction of churches finances of 131, 142–45, 255, 327–32 344–47 and GMD’s interest in border in 1920s 37–46, 348 construction 103–11 as part of anti-imperialism movement groups targeted by 2–4 71 history of Christian missions in service Anti-Christian Student Federation 37–38 areas of 122–26 anti-opium campaign 245–49 lessons from 355–56 anti-superstition campaign(s) 10, 72 and Liangshan Resistance War against anti-Western imperialism campaigns 306–7 Japan and Construction Service A Pu 264–65 Corps 201–3 Ashiwa, Yoshiko 7, 13 livelihood work of 181–86, 239–49 Association of Primary School Teachers 141 Ma Changshou on 357 medical work of 168–80, 227–39, 351–52 banditry 186–88, 350 motivations of CCC in 5–6 Bays, Daniel 15, 18, 32, 48, 67, 73, 305–6 organization of 126–31 Beijing 55n80 political agenda of 148–49 Beiping 55n80 political attack on 324–27 Bianjiang fuwu 311–14, 349–50 political studies of 322–24 Bian Xiling 171, 229, 324, 336 postwar educational work of 211–27 Bisson, Thomas 78 purpose of 4 Black Yi people 134, 231, 247 religious work in Chuanxi 261–75 “border people scholarships” 150, 223, 225 religious work in Xikang 276–89 Border Service (Mission) Committee responsibilities of workers in Chuanxi and 106–7, 128–29 Xikang 148 Border Service Corps Song 118 and Rural Reconstruction Movement 82 Border Service Department (BSD) scholarship on 19–22, 146 achievements of 349–50 service areas of 3map Index 393

services in Yunnan and Guizhou 138–42 and National Christian Council 47–48 significance of examining origins of and New Life Movement 92, 93–94 116–22 and organization of BSD 126 social relief work of 186–89 Cheng Zhuqing 39 and Three People’s Principles Youth Corps Li Fu 250, 319 189–91 Chen Mingyi 174 unique features of 4 Chen Qianping 108 and University Students Summer Service Chen Zhiqian 128 Corps 191–200, 203–5 Chiang, Madame 72–73, 90–91, 129, 209–10 wartime services of 205–8, 350–51 Chiang Kai-shek working principles of 130 and anti-Christian movement 45–46 Border Work Cadre Training Class 140 conversion to Christianity 72–73 Boxer Uprising 28, 33–34, 35 criticism of 251 British Baptist Missionary Society (BMS) inspects BSD’s work in Xikang 209–10 282–84 invites Panchen Lama to Nanjing 109 Brook, Timothy 18 on mobilization of Yi in War of Buck, Pearl 45 Resistance 136–37 Buddhism, War, and Nationalism (Xue) 23 and New Life Movement 88, 90–93 Buglio, Ludovicus 122 and Rural Reconstruction Movement 87 Burma Road 201 tactics for eliminating Burnett, David 2 Communists 183n108 on War of Resistance 96 Cai Yuanpei 44 children, Xikang welfare programs for Canadian Presbyterian Church Mission 243–45 Board 282 Children’s Welfare Center 186 Cao Nanlai 26, 347 “Children’s Wonderland” program 227 Catholicism China Continuation Committee 47, 48, 50 under anti-Christian ban 30 China Inland Mission (CIM) 124 legalization of 31 Chinese Christian Pastors and Believers missions in BSD service areas 122–23, Association 57 125–26 Chinese Christians Faith Acts Saving the Central Daily News 158 Country Ten-men Group 58 Central Executive Committee 74, 104–5, Chinese Communist Party (CCP). See also 250n115 People’s Republic of China (PRC) Central Military Political Academy (CMPA) anti-Christian sentiment of 39 43 Chiang Kai-shek’s tactics for Chang Xueben 314–15 eliminating 183n108 Chen Cheng 250 and Civil War 249–52, 255 Chengdu Foreigners Management Agency support for 302–3 329 Chinese Domestic Evangelistic Association Cheng Jingyi 29fig. 57 and China Continuation Committee 47 Chinese Independent Presbyterian Church and creation of BSD 112, 113–14, 115, 116, 35 128n70, 317 Chinese Islamic National Salvation elected Chinese General Secretary of CCC Association 13–14 29 Chinese language, as language of instruction and establishment of CCC 52–53, 60 160 as General Council delegate 66 ’s Political Consultative meeting with H. H. Kung 1 Conference (CPPCC) 296, 297, 298