condition and problems in their life. Priest Andre worried about nothing. He also did not think about getting as much money as possible. He handed his life
over God’s hands. Being a Christian does not mean we should always teach or preach the
teaching of Christianity, but more we should be able to do the teaching in our daily life. Many people can only speak without being able to do what he says,
but Priest Andre is different. He could both teach and do what he had taught for a teacher must be a good model for his students and other people.
Practicing the teaching is better than just teaching. People will see the teaching from what he does in his daily life.
C. Madame Wu’s Personality Development under the Influence of Priest Andre
As stated in chapter II, according to Hurlock 1976: 234-235 someone’s personality develops and changes under the influence of people around himher.
Family and environment have a very important role in forming one’s personality. In the first section, we have seen how Chinese culture, especially culture in
family, has formed Madame Wu’s personality. But an individual develops through her life under the influence of people around her. The people influencing the
individual must be important ones for the individual. In this section, the influence of Priest Andre to Madame Wu’s personality will be discussed further. Priest
Andre was Madame Wu’s teacher, someone that Madame Wu admired and loved much.
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Priest Andre is both a Westerner and a Christian, while Madame Wu is a non-Christian traditional Chinese. According to Enoch Wan 1991 in his article,
Christianity in the Eye of Traditional Chinese , traditional Chinese refers to non-
Christian Chinese with strong Chinese cultural orientation and ethnic pride. While Christianity means the belief of individual followers and the institutionalized
communities or organizations of faithful people who glorify Jesus Christ as their only Lord. Here we will see how a Western Catholic Priest can influence a
traditional Chinese woman’s personality and what she would be under the influence of a Western Catholic priest.
The influence of Christianity to Chinese has been discussed so long by many experts. Here we will analyze it based on what is written by Pearl S. Buck
in her literary work, Pavilion of Women 1946. Christianity is considered by many Chinese people as the sign of Westernization. Enoch Wan 1991 describes
“Westernization” as the process of Western culture to influence Chinese. It can be seen that there is a rejection showed by the Chinese to both Western culture and
Westerners. In the mind of traditional Chinese, Christianity is what is imported and imposed from the West. It means that if Chinese people accept Christianity
teaching, they will stand against Chinese culture. Wan said that Christianity teaching should be imparted to Chinese people
in Chinese soil, not in a Western pot. It means that to teach Christianity to Chinese people we must be able to make it possible to be applied in Chinese daily life, not
the way of Westerners’ life. Priest Andre seems to know this principle. He uses 40
