Xue, Yuanyuan2020-11-232020-11-2320170009-4668http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/3978250The modern ministry poetry is non-singing poetry written by Christians for the missionary purpose. In this paper, the modern ministry poetry in the Chinese mainland flourishing from 1921 to 1949 will be studied against the background of the Christian Indigenization Campaign in the 1920s. Compared with western religious poetry, the objective of modern ministry poetry is clearly directed to missionary work. The contents of the poetry widely involve secular life, and the quality and writing skills of different modern ministry poems are disparate. These characteristics came from the special period of the Republic of China (1912–49) and gradually faded after 1949.chiChristian Study Centre on Chinese Religion and Culture, Chung Chi College, Shatin, Hong KongThe Republic of China (1912–49)the Chinese Mainlandmodern ministry poetryChristian IndigenizationAsian theologiesComparative religion and interreligious dialogueArticle