Che Yaoxian (Chinese: 车耀先; pinyin: Chē Yàoxiān; 1894–1946) was a member of the Chinese Communist Party and an officer in the Sichuan army. In 1921, after meeting a local preacher in Jianyang, he converted to Christianity. In 1927, he represented Sichuan at the East Asian Christian Association conference in Shanghai.[1] Sometime in the 1930s, he founded the anti-imperialist Chengdu Christian Improvement Association, which advocated for "self-nourishing" and "self-propagation".[2] However, he also experienced crises of faith, such as in 1928, when he lamented in a poem titled "Oath to Myself": "Religion merely deceives foolish people."[1]
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edit- Chen, Jianming (2008). "Modern Chinese Attitudes Towards the Bible". In Starr, Chloe (ed.). Reading Christian Scriptures in China. Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 13–31. ISBN 9780567032928.