Che Yaoxian (Chinese:车耀先;pinyin:Chē Yàoxiān; 1894–1946) was a member of the Chinese Communist Party and an officer in the Sichuan army. In 1921, after meeting a local preacher in Jianyang, he converted to Christianity. In 1927, he represented Sichuan at the East Asian Christian Association conference in Shanghai. Sometime in the 1930s, he founded the anti-imperialist Chengdu Christian Improvement Association, which advocated for "self-nourishing" and "self-propagation". However, he also experienced crises of faith, such as in 1928, when he lamented in a poem titled "Oath to Myself": "Religion merely deceives foolish people."

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  • Chen, Jianming (2008). "Modern Chinese Attitudes Towards the Bible". In Starr, Chloe (ed.). Reading Christian Scriptures in China. Bloomsbury Academic. pp.13–31. ISBN9780567032928.