At 9:30 am on August 2, 2005, while two American tourists were preparing to have Christian fellowship with 41 Chinese House church pastors and believers at their host family's home in Lutou Town, Zaoyang City, Hubei Province(ºþ±±Ê¡ÔæÑôÊйͷÕò), approximately 30 Chinese plain-clothed police officers rushed into the house. According to several eyewitness reports, the two American theological students, believed to be from Westminster Theological Seminary Campuses in Texas and California, were handled very unprofessionally. One sustained injuries to his wrists after being handcuffed because he wanted to put his shoes on before he was forced into an unmarked police car. The police refused to reveal their identifications. The two Americans were neither permitted to contact the US Embassy nor permitted to show their US passports and other Identification cards. Both were taken to a government "hotel" for interrogation. They were released at 5 pm following a 7 hour interrogation. Without explanation, some of their belongings, including their personal bibles, notebooks, and books on Westminster Confession of Faith were confiscated.  -- Christian Communicatoin Network, http://www.earnedmedia.org/caa0808.htm

As an international student from China, a person accepted Christianity in America, I felt that my heart was split apart in an event like this. Across the world history, Christianity has been used as a tool of conquering Mexico and wiping out American Indian culture. Starting from 1807, missionaries entered China, with their limited understanding on Chinese culture, developed a one-sided view on the evil idle-worshiping and inhuman practices, which finally gave them an excuse to initiate the “Opium War” in 1840. These missionaries joined the Eastern Trade Co., an English monopoly trading company exporting opium in China in exchange for Gold. With the advantage of their linguistic skills, they acted as translators, initiators of various Treaties in favor of the Western world, even war advocators justifying the whole China invasion as the righteous war against Satan! How much do they really know about the innocent civilians dying under English Cannonballs and how dare them calling Chinese culture, African culture, Indian culture Chicano culture, every single culture besides European culture Satan!
 
Chinese government’s resistance on Christianity wasn’t coming out from nowhere. Western missioners once introduced to the innocent Chinese civilians England cannonballs and opium balls, which turned a national of five thousand years’ great virtues into savages eating each others’ blood for survival. ?
 
On the flipping side, growing up through the “opening policy”, I do see a “virtue crisis” spreading out in the five thousand sq. kilometers’ land of China like the biggest plague ever. Every time I saw young Chinese girls like me in Pop magazines, sitting on old business men’s laps with cloths barely covering their upper bodies in dark bar lights, my heart hurts so much. So much of these girls aren’t really having no alternatives. Quite the opposite, they are from modest families, influenced by Western TV commercials, abandoning schools to seek the “momentum of excitement and modernism.” They look down upon their parents, whom wearing their old cloths, saving every single dollar to support their massive appetite on big-name cosmetics and cloths. When the society as a whole advocates material value, when parents lack the educational background to save their children from swollen up by material lives, the only way out of this crisis seems to be god. However, facing all the traumas and wounded scars left by the English invasion, Chinese people are under a huge pressure and hard to take anything in easily.
 
With all that, the means of preach seems to be vital for Chinese people’s recognizing god’s love. I pray that god gives us the wisdom. Cannonballs and gun powders will never truly conquer the land; the people will only bend in front of big minds and benevolent hearts. Convincing a nation to accept a new perspective starts from accepting them and understanding their background in the first place.