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Friday, February 5, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Study of China religions is continuing to receive Luce Foundation grants
By Davana Yochim
Kansan staff writer
Twenty years ago, China scholars believed that Protestant churches in China were all run by foreign mission aries, said Daniel Bays, a University of Kansas professor of history.
"We now know that as many as 25 percent of the Chinese people were in independent churches," he said. Independent churches were those started by Chinese citizens, not by foreign missionaries as previously believed.
While Bays was studying the history of the Protestant church in China, he proposed a larger project:
the History of Christianity in China project, a six-year research program involving scholars from several universities worldwide.
That project recently received a $150,000, two-year grant from the Henry Luce Foundation, Inc. The grant was a supplement to the $500,000 that the foundation originally awarded to the program in 1985.
Bays, who is director of the project, said that the study of Christianity in China was a growing field among U.S. and Chinese scholars but that the topic of Christianity in China had not been popular in the past.
'Many topics in this area are
important to Chinese history," Bays said. "But previous assumptions don't look accurate."
He said previous information about Chinese Christians might not have been accurate because scholars were not using materials written in Chinese. Through the project, scholars are getting a different story from the original Chinese documents.
Terry Lautz, program officer of the Luce Foundation, said that the study of Christianity in China was becoming easier because Chinese scholars were more open about the issue.
See CHINA, p. 13, col. 7
Plan would kill two Senate boards
By a Kansan reporter
Two boards of the Student Senate would be eliminated under a proposed revision of Senate regulations, a task force decided last night.
Templin said. "As boards, they are ineffective and dead weight."
The Pearson Lecture Series Board and the University Safety and Security Board would be eliminated under the revision, which will be considered at the Feb. 17 Senate meeting.
Roger Templin, Student Senate Executive Committee chairman, said the boards had been inactive for some time.
"Neither one has met this year,"
Kathryn Anderson, off-campus senator, said the lecture series board was established to found a lecture series similar to the Landon series at Kansas State University.
Senate allocated $25,000 to the board as seed money for a series, she said. The intention was to get a few good speakers, then build a reputation for the series and fund it through donations.
Pearson lectures, Anderson said, including one last April by Nicholas Danielllo, a U.S. News and World Report magazine correspondent who was detained in the Soviet Union and accused of espionage.
But the money was spent on speeches that were not billed as
Anderson said the lecture series could probably be absorbed by another Senate board.
Templin said that the University Safety and Security Board was formed in 1986 but that it had accomplished nothing in two years.
the eminations of the two boards are part of a rewrite of Article 5 of Senate rules and regulations.
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