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Christainity is China is believed to have started in 635 A.D
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Around 599-649 A.D, the gospel was translated in the imperial library and shown to the Emperor and the Emperor allowed the religion
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The Yuan Dynasty is founded in 1271
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Giovanni of Monte Corvine, a Franciscan missionary, came to Da Du (today's Bejing)
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Ming Dynasty is established
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All christains were expelled from China
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Ricci learns the chinese language and culture and goes to south china.He tried an approach to intergrate christainity into existing chinese philosphy
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Ricci claims that there are more than 1,000 christain converts with grows to 5000 within the next 10 years
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Ricci is granted access to the forbidden city and is followed by his jesuits and shortly dies after
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Papal Bull reaches the emperor and is on the Jesuit's side and angers the emporer
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After the emporer is angered by papal bull he bans christianity and has it put in to the law
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after the ban of christianity. all churches are destroyed or confiscated. and the number of christian converts graudally decrease
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Some catholic missionary preist continued preaching in China and risking their lives
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Protestant missionaries arrive in China
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the first protestant, who started the Taiping Rebellion that nearly toppled the government
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by 1895, 641 missionaries were in almost every Chinese province
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China's new leader Chiang was turned to christianity and was baptized in order to marry the future madame Chiang Kai-shek
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Chinese Christians numbered approximately three million Catholics and around 800,000 Protestants
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today the christian population has grown to over 100 million
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In 814-846, Emperor Wuzong, a jealous Taoist, decreed in 845 A.D and banned all "foreign" religion
