Questions How did missionaries writing stimulate reformers of the 1890s? What about reform-minded chinese scholars correspondent thought? Anything new? How did they understand Western polity? (e.g. constitutional monarchy, parliament, democracy, and so on .Questions • How did missionaries’ writing stimulate reformers of the 1890s? • What about reform-minded Chinese scholars’ correspondent thought? Anything new? How did they understand Western polity? (e.g. constitutional monarchy, parliament, democracy, and so on.)