>>7000820Yes, there was the Taiping rebellion. Also early Chinese republicans (the people who lead to the over throwing of the Qing dynasty, and its subsequent replacement with the Republic of China) were disproportionally Christian converts.
Late Qing China was a hotbed for Christianity, and it honestly wouldn't have been unlikely to see the entire country go Kirishitan if things had played out any differently than they did.
>The Qing were Manchus, none Chinese who deliberately destroyed and suppressed the Han Chinese culture, leading to much of China feeling "cultureless">Christianity was very appealing to the Chinese peasants as it idealizes the common working man, where as Chinese society considers the poor to be a subhuman race (in the Chinese creation myth, peasants are said to be descendants of parasitic worms living inside the deity that transformed into the universe itself)>Confucian and Christian core beliefs are not mutually exclusive with each other, so the Chinese didn't give up anything when converting>Christianity was the religion of the Technologically superior west who had spent the last 50 years effortlessly pillaging and quartering up China>Most none Christian schools only educated those who showed promise (people with connections) so the average school educated Chinese was taught by Christians>The Manchu warrior class were Loathed, and seen as being impotent and ineffectual. The Merchant class was comprised almost entirely of Christian and Jewish foreigners.