page_title: Shen-kuang-szu Incident
hierarchical_section_title: Shen-kuang-szu Incident
caption_attribution_description: English: View of Fuzhou from Black Stone Hill (乌山), in the late 19th century
context_page_description: The Shen-kuang-szu Incident was a series of events that took place between 1850 and 1851 in Fuzhou, China and was marked as one of the earliest conflicts between local Chinese and foreign Protestant missionaries. It began in June 1850 when two English missionaries rented rooms in a temple known as the Shen-kuang-szu on Wu-shih-shan within the walled city of Fuzhou. In the months that followed, local Chinese gentry and officials attempted in various ways to evict the missionaries from the hill, but all their efforts apparently failed. The controversy was settled the following year in October with the terms of the agreement stating that the missionaries were allowed to stay behind. This led to great discontentment amongst the local gentry and eventually foreshadowed yet another more important missionary incident - the 1878 Wu-shih-shan Case.
context_section_description: The Shen-kuang-szu Incident (Chinese: 神光寺事件; Pinyin: Shénguāngsì Shìjiàn; Foochow Romanized: Sìng-guŏng-sê Sê̤ṳ-giông) was a series of events that took place between 1850 and 1851 in Fuzhou, China and was marked as one of the earliest conflicts between local Chinese and foreign Protestant missionaries. It began in June 1850 when two English missionaries rented rooms in a temple known as the Shen-kuang-szu on Wu-shih-shan within the walled city of Fuzhou. In the months that followed, local Chinese gentry and officials attempted in various ways to evict the missionaries from the hill, but all their efforts apparently failed. The controversy was settled the following year in October with the terms of the agreement stating that the missionaries were allowed to stay behind. This led to great discontentment amongst the local gentry and eventually foreshadowed yet another more important missionary incident - the 1878 Wu-shih-shan Case.
caption: View of Fuzhou from Wu-shih-shan in the 19th century.
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