View of Chinese landscape

Renewed evangelism in China began with the opening of several Chinese port cities; but Hudson Taylor's dream was to evangelize all of China by penetrating inland. In 1865 he organized the China Inland Mission (CIM) for evangelism. Taylor himself was a Baptist, but CIM accepted missionaries of humble background from all denominations and countries. To avoid the resentment which colonialism provoked among Chinese people, CIM paid no salaries and accepted no protection from European countries. The mission was to be directed from within China, and missionaries were to identify as much as possible with the people by wearing Chinese clothing and speaking the Chinese language. By 1895 CIM had 641 missionaries, including Chinese Christians, diffused throughout China. Around 1900 the "Boxer Rebellion," an anti-foreigner movement, arose and an imperial decree ordered death to all foreigners. In this persecution Chinese Christians and foreign missionaries, both Protestant and Catholic, were killed. When it ended, Taylor refused compensation from the Chinese government; he set about repairing and renewing CIM in China.