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Study on Timothy Richard’s Missionary Activities and Strategy of Cross-Culture Communication

Author: ZhaoLiuQing
Tutor: ZhangBo
School: Hebei University of Economics
Course: Journalism
Keywords: Timothy Missionary activities Intercultural Communication Strategy
CLC: B978
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2011
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Abstract

Intercultural Communication is accompanied by a historical and cultural phenomenon of human growth, the core of their research is how people of different cultural backgrounds to build bridges, to successfully carry out the exchange and dissemination. Since the 1980s, around the world, globalization is increasingly becoming one of the basic characteristics of the era, dissemination, communication, conflict and understand these core issues have become increasingly prominent, cross-cultural communication has become an unavoidable reality, it is not only the cultural development intrinsic motivation, but also the country's soft power spread an integral part of. Therefore, the study of intercultural communication has become increasingly important. In 1845, Timothy was born in the United Kingdom, 14-year-old Baptist believers baptized. In 1869, he came to China with the Gospel convictions for forty five years of missionary activity. Timothy by virtue of his devout faith, strong physique, tolerance, the Pok Oi and attached character, missionary way of localization, the missionary and secular affairs combined clever strategy, the Christian doctrine, together with advanced Western civilization together passed to the Chinese people, has won a number of Chinese government officials, intellectuals, and the general public's trust and admiration, and became the late Qing Dynasty famous Chinese scholars, propagandists and politicians, has left an indelible mark on the modern history of China, which in Modern Western in China who is unique. Timothy made a great contribution to the communication between Chinese and Western cultures, and its successful cross-cultural communication strategy worthy of our study and learn. Lee Timothy less from their missionary activities to study cross-cultural communication strategies article is ignored by many scholars, This paper analyzes a the Timothy series of effective cross-cultural communication strategies, and as a result China's cross-cultural communication strategies in a global era provides some suggestions. Western missionaries to China for the purpose of religious conquer, but they also spread western learning, set up newspapers, the positive impact of modern Chinese society can not be ignored, and can not simply be classified as a \Intercultural communication is a two-edged sword, for intercultural communication exotic culture, to use its length to avoid its short. In the 1950s, Edward Hall (Edward Hall) \Around intercultural communication ability of the three intercultural communication mode of intercultural communication patterns of behavior, cognitive model of intercultural communication and intercultural communication mode of understanding. Understanding of these three modes contribute to the analysis of the missionary activities of Timothy success as a cross-cultural transmission phenomenon. The view from the patterns of behavior of the cross-cultural communication, Timothy's success is that he has a higher cultivation of knowledge, strong communication skills, resilience, the ability to interact and language ability, coordination ability, and the ability to control. View from the cognitive model of intercultural communication, Timothy's success is anxiety, prejudice, fear, rigid, loneliness and other psychological disorders can be overcome through extensive participation in his cultural communication activities to get the ability to cross-cultural communication, integrate into the culture of the contact. From the understanding of intercultural communication mode, Timothy's success is that he has a strong ability to understand the mental endurance and a positive attitude to eliminate misunderstanding construct meaning, the ability to create a harmonious atmosphere. The missionary activities of the Western missionaries spread of a cross-cultural phenomenon, Lee Timothy missionary strategy can be seen as a cross-cultural communication strategies can be grouped into four main areas: the first is the localization of the missionary way, including making itself and Christianity in China, so the Chinese missionary to the Chinese people as well as seek the legalization of missionary activity; second is \sermon, to relieve a famine, spread of Western learning, founder of Shanxi University, consultant Westernization, advocating political reform; fourth is not found after contact with other religions and understanding of other religions as enemies, Christian winning and weaknesses, to help him better missionary work. Globalization as a background of the contemporary cross-cultural communication, both an objective fact, but also is a trend of the development of the world, brought about a cultural conflict and intercultural communication \If a country does not pay attention to their own cultural heritage, and external dissemination of their culture, just blindly accept and absorb foreign culture, resulting in their Culture of depression is also very possible. So we should find some appropriate cross-cultural communication strategy, make full use of the resource advantages of globalization, and not lose the characteristics of the national culture, to show the characteristics of the national culture in a multicultural world. We get inspired from Timothy missionary activities: to cultivate and revival of traditional culture, to improve the teaching of Confucius Institute overseas, accelerate the construction of transmission shortcut, covering a wide range of media.

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