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1900
30,000 Chinese Christians and 200 missionaries are killed during the Boxer Uprising; Wang Mingdao is born

1901
Watchman Nee and John Sung are born

1904
Samuel Pollard begins missionary work among the Miao

1905
Hudson Taylor, founder of the China Inland Mission (CIM), dies

1908
Revival breaks out in Manchuria under the ministry of Canadian missionary Jonathan Goforth

1911
Revolution overthrows Qing dynasty; Sun Yat-sen becomes provisional president of new Republic of China; James Fraser arrives in Yunnan province and begins missionary work among the Lisu

1912
Sun Yat-sen founds Kuomintang (Nationalist Party)

1914-1918
World War I

1917
Paul Wei founds True Jesus Church in Beijing

1919
Treaty of Versailles awards German properties in Shantung, China, to Japan; China feels betrayed and refuses to sign; May Fourth student protest in Tiananmen Square marks new surge of nationalism and cultural reform in China

1920
Mary Stone launches Shanghai Bethel Mission

1921
Chinese Communist Party is founded in Shanghai

1922
Communists and anarchists protest Conference of World Student Christian Federations in Beijing

1923
James Yen founds Mass Education Movement; starts rural reconstruction in Dingxian three years later

1926
First two Chinese Catholic bishops are consecrated; Jing Dianying starts Christian community that later becomes known as the Jesus Family

1928
Watchman Nee starts "Little Flock" church in Shanghai; Yifang Wu becomes president of Jinling College for Women

1930
Norwegian missionary Marie Monsen visits Shandong and sparks Pentecostal-like revival across the province

1931
Japan invades Manchuria

1932
Pearl Buck gives speech, "Is There a Case for Foreign Missions?"; Rethinking Missions: A Laymen's Inquiry After One Hundred Years is published in U.S.

1934
CIM missionary David Adeney arrives in north central China; John and Betty Stam are beheaded

1937
Wang Mingdao builds Christian Tabernacle in Beijing

1937
Japan invades north and central China; Communists and Nationalists unite in war against Japan; Japanese soldiers commit atrocities during the "Rape of Nanking," during which American missionary Minnie Vautrin harbors women at Jinling College

1939-1945
World War II

1941
U.S. allies with China after Japanese attack Pearl Harbor

1943
James Yen honored in Carnegie Hall as one of nine "modern revolutionaries"; Eric Liddell is sent to a Japanese internment camp along with other missionaries and foreigners in occupied territory (he dies there in 1945)

1944
John Sung dies

1945
China Inter-Varsity Evangelical Christian Students Fellowship is inaugurated in Chongqing and student revivals begin; Japan surrenders, ending WWII

1946
Civil War breaks out between Nationalists (led by Chiang Kai-shek) and Communists (led by Mao Zedong)

1948
Last Inter-Varsity evangelistic campaign is held in Beijing

1949
People's Republic of China is established as a Communist state

1950
Protestant leaders led by Y. T. Wu meet with Premier Zhou Enlai and form Three-Self Patriotic Movement (TSPM)

1952
All foreign missionaries are expelled from China; Watchman Nee is arrested

1955
Wang Mingdao is arrested; many churches closed

1956-57
Communist Party invites public criticism in "Hundred Flowers" movement, then suppresses it

1958
TSPM enforces church unity and closes more churches; Catholic Patriotic Association appoints bishops without papal approval, splitting Catholic church in China

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