ABSTRACT
The F.o.R. in China was always a somewhat nebulous body; its experimental activities were continuously interrupted and finally overwhelmed by the revolutionary and military events which battered the country between Sun Yat-sen’s proclamation of a Chinese Republic in 1911, and the final triumph of Chinese Communism in September 1949. In 1959 a Chinese woman with an American mission school background returned to China to find the Anglican, Congregational and Baptist churches carrying on as before and the Baptists flourishing. The Christian churches in China were confined to purely religious activities and had to rely exclusively on their own followers and internal resources. One outstanding feature in the history of the Japanese Fellowship has been the persistent endeavour of the American Fellowship to create friendship between the United States and Japan. From 1931, when the Japanese invaded Manchuria, the dominant militarism of the country created increasing difficulties for the peace movement.
