ABSTRACT
From the whole world of Christianity, the human, if not the divine part of the personality of Jesus Christ is most often described, delineated, or depicted in modern Chinese intellectual history of the 20th century. After the “zealotism” of Euro-American missionaries in China in the last decades of the 19th century, who tried to “conquer China for Christ” as a great “heathen” nation, a more conciliatory appreciation and understanding concerning the achievements of Chinese culture was shown in the writings of the famous Sinologist James Legge who tried to convince his missionary fellows that Chinese values may go hand in hand with Christian doctrines and these could enrich Confucian teachings. Up to the 1920s, there were not many important writings of Chinese Christians on theological or other aspects of Christian doctrine, or Christianity in general. Jesus was a proletarian from the cradle to the Cross.
