Although n general I don't like missionary efforts much, at least of the fundamentalist variety, I do think we might stop to realize that they're not all bastards, and not in all ways. Medical missionaries, in particular, have done a lot of good in the world in situations where nobody else gave a damn, and some of these, at least, might well be called fundamentalist. The last 150 years of history in Yunnan includes such people. I might prefer that they had not been fundamentalist missionaries, but it's hard to argue with lives etc. (medically) saved.
Main problem I have with fundamentalist Christians is their largely-unexamined concept of 'God'. As for Dawkins, it would seem that he spends a lot of time arguing that God does not "exist" - fundamentalists argue that 'He' does. But material existence is something we can debate in relation to chairs and cats - the idea that God 'exists' in the same way strikes me as braindead. The whole God discourse, I think, can have value, although I think those engaged in it should be careful to examine what they are talking about more clearly and for that matter, the idea of a 'Son of God' as well, which is one that Muslims do not engage in (Jesus, in Islam, is a prophet) and which strikes Muslims as ridiculous and laughable. A lot of words can obscure different kinds of truth, and those used to defend 'literal' truths of religious texts usually do so - one can find Truth in novels, poems and the art of John Coltrane.
I realize this is not what we're really talking about here, but a little imagination can sometimes bridge gaps in understanding, even with fundamentalist missionaries - though that's a hard sell, it might work better if it could be out in the open.

Magnifico's statement that people are either inherently born decent human beings or they're not is bullcrap. Show me an ounce of evidence that the statement is true, that genetics determine whether people are 'decent' or not. And no, I'm not saying that genetics has nothing at all to do with human behavior - it's just that there are a lot of factors involved, including those that lead people to decide what is and what is not 'decent' behavior, what it might be in situation A rather than in situation B, etc.
If the statement were true it would be unnecessary to deal with missionary or any other people involved in indoctrination because it would be impossible for the victims of such indoctrination to be made anything other than decent people.

Or maybe they'd be 'decent' but misdirected? Actually, I think this later suggestion is closer to the reality concerning human behavior, and I think logically Magnifico's own arguments point in this direction, otherwise, what's he worried about? And yes, Magnifico, I'll give you slack to correct your statement, which I think you made without thinking about it too deeply - happens to all of us sometimes.

The history of mining in the area is interesting - tin mines going back a couple thousand years and more, significant for the rise of early Yunnan political entities and, of course, important for sparking French interests in Yunnan and the building of the RR from Haiphong, 1910. .

@Magnificao: Sounds like growing up anywhere, vis-a-vis religious doctrines or others. Everybody should consider practicing it.

Will do. When is this first meeting?