Glossary Term
Risk: Medium- Approved rendering
- 宣教
- Transliteration
- xuānjiào
- Rejected alternatives
- 洋教传播
Mission
Historically, Christianity in China was labeled 洋教 (yángjiào, ‘foreign/Western religion’), a term carrying colonial-era and anti-imperialist connotations from the 19th-20th centuries. 宣教 is the standard modern Chinese Christian term; avoid framing that reinforces the ‘foreign import’ stigma.
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