During 1881-1892 years, a group of civil officials in the Qing government under the leadership of Li Hong zhang consistently made the proposal of establishing diplomatic relation with the Vatican and abandoning France protection of clergy to stablitize the circumstance of Chinese Christians.

However, most domestic historiography scholarships would like to take a certain church development in one area or a missionary\'s sermon activity as a major to make research aboat Far East Catholicism, but not make a systematic research on contending of Far East Patronage among all European colonized countries.