The Catholic Invasion Of China

Author : D. E. Mungello
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442250505

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The Catholic Invasion of China by D. E. Mungello Pdf

The culmination of D. E. Mungello’s forty years of study on Sino-Western history, this book provides a compelling and nuanced history of Roman Catholicism in modern China. As the author vividly shows, when China declined into a two-century cycle of poverty, powerlessness, and humiliation, the attitudes of Catholic missionaries became less accommodating than their famous Jesuit predecessors. He argues that “invasion” accurately characterizes the dominant attitude of Catholic missionaries (especially the French Jesuits) in their attempt to introduce Western religion and culture into China during the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Elements of this attitude lingered until the end of the last century, when many Chinese felt that Pope John Paul II’s canonization of 120 martyrs reflected the imposition of an imperialist mentality. In this important work, Mungello corrects a major misreading of modern Chinese history by arguing that the growth of an indigenous Catholic church in the twentieth century transformed the negative aspects of the “invasion” into a positive Chinese religious force.

Author : D. E. Mungello
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538150306

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This Suffering Is My Joy by D. E. Mungello Pdf

Tracing the little-known history of the first underground Catholic church in China, noted scholar D. E. Mungello illuminates the period between the imperial expulsion of foreign Christian missionaries in 1724 and their return with European colonialism in the 1800s. Few realize that this was the first time in which Chinese, rather than Europeans, came to control their own church as Chinese clergy and lay leaders maintained communities of clandestine Catholics. Mungello follows the church in a time of persecution, focusing in particular on the role of Chinese clergy and lay leaders in maintaining communities of clandestine Catholics during the eighteenth century. He highlights the parallels between the 1724 and 1951 expulsions of missionaries from China, the first driven by a Chinese imperial system and the second by a revolutionary Communist government. The two periods also reflected foreign bias against the Chinese priests and laity and questions about their spiritual depth and constancy. However, Mungello shows that the historical record of incarcerated and interrogated Christians reveals a spiritually inspired resistance to government oppression and a willingness to suffer, often to the point of martyrdom.

Author : Ernest P. Young
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199924622

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Ecclesiastical Colony by Ernest P. Young Pdf

The French Religious Protectorate was an institutionalized and enduring policy of the French government, based on a claim by the French state to be guardian of all Catholics in China. The expansive nature of the Protectorate's claim across nationalities elicited opposition from official and ordinary Chinese, other foreign countries, and even the pope. Yet French authorities believed their Protectorate was essential to their political prominence in the country. This book examines the dynamics of the French policy, the supporting role played in it by ecclesiastical authority, and its function in embittering Sino-foreign relations. In the 1910s, the dissidence of some missionaries and Chinese Catholics introduced turmoil inside the church itself. The rebels viewed the link between French power and the foreign-run church as prejudicial to the evangelistic project. The issue came into the open in 1916, when French authorities seized territory in the city of Tianjin on the grounds of protecting Catholics. In response, many Catholics joined in a campaign of patriotic protest, which became linked to a movement to end the subordination of the Chinese Catholic clergy to foreign missionaries and to appoint Chinese bishops. With new leadership in the Vatican sympathetic to reforms, serious steps were taken from the late 1910s to establish a Chinese-led church, but foreign bishops, their missionary societies, and the French government fought back. During the 1930s, the effort to create an indigenous church stalled. It was less than halfway to realization when the Chinese Communist Party took power in 1949. Ecclesiastical Colony reveals the powerful personalities, major debates, and complex series of events behind the turmoil that characterized the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century experience of the Catholic church in China.

Author : Agostino Giovagnoli,Elisa Giunipero
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015062852366

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The Catholic Church and the Chinese World by Agostino Giovagnoli,Elisa Giunipero Pdf

Author : Beatrice Leung,William Thomas Liu
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 1581125143

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Chinese Catholic Church in Conflict by Beatrice Leung,William Thomas Liu Pdf

This is a sociological and historical analysis of the conflict between the state and the Catholic Church in China between 1949 and 2001 during half of a century of the socialist regime. The relationship began with conflict, followed by accomodation and finally a cooperative spirit had developed for a complex web of political and diplomatic reasons. Never in the past the Catholic Church has shown a rigorous growth under the encouragement of the Communist Party to shape the Church in the image of a indigenous and local church and to minimize the influence of the Vatican. There remains a persistent struggle between the underground church, those who remain loyal to early missionaries and to the Holy See, and the official national church controlled by the Party/State. The authors argue that there is hope that the conflict will eventually disappear as the new leadership in Beijing may one day restore a diplomatic relationship with the Vatican.

Author : Bertram Wolferstan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1909
Category : China
ISBN : UOM:39015008360243

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The Catholic Church in China from 1860 to 1907 by Bertram Wolferstan Pdf

Author : David Strong
Publisher : ATF Press
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781925643589

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A Call to Mission - A History of the Jesuits in China 1842-1954 by David Strong Pdf

China has bulked large in the imagination of the Catholic Church for 500 years. It had been central to the missionary dream of the Jesuits for almost as long. However, only with this book's appearance has the detailed focus of attention shifted to the substantial and neglected period of catholic and Jesuit engagement with china - the almost 120 years from the second arrival of the Jesuits. Matteo Ricci the polymath, Ferdinand Verbeist and Adam Schall von Bell the astronomers and the exquisite painter who influenced Chinese painting beyond measure, Giuseppe Castiglione, have been written about, made ls of and been the heart and soul of the first stage of Jesuit impact on China - in the 17th and 18th Centuries. They brought Western learning and art to China and took Chinese language and literature to Europe. The Jesuits were the first multinational to be welcomed in China and they came with a specific method of engagement - to make friends build relationships and share their gifts before anything else was transacted, including conversations about Christianity. It remains an unsurpassed method of engagement with a rich and ancient people. But the second arrival - from the 1840's - was very different. It was made possible by the arrival of European governments and traders, many of whom came not just for financial gain but to spread their "superior" religion. This work by David Strong in two volumes is the first major treatment of the period from the arrival of the European and eventually American Jesuit missionaries under the protection of the so called Unequal Treaties through to their expulsion after the Communist victory in the long running civil war in 1949. Volume 1: The French Romance - traces the people, projects, expansion and impact of those who provided the predominant Jesuit presence. At the height of it's engagement with China, the French Government has 19 Consulates and attendant military and navy throughout China. The French Jesuits were afforded access and protection by their government and activated missions in northern and central China - schools, seminaries, universities, parishes, retreat houses, publications - and attracted Chinese nationals to join their number.

Author : Thomas A. Breslin
Publisher : University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015001517211

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China, American Catholicism, and the Missionary by Thomas A. Breslin Pdf

Author : Liam Matthew BROCKEY
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674028814

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Journey to the East by Liam Matthew BROCKEY Pdf

It was one of the great encounters of world history: highly educated European priests confronting Chinese culture for the first time in the modern era. This “journey to the East” is explored by Brockey as he retraces the path of the Jesuit missionaries who sailed from Portugal to China.

Author : John T. P. Lai
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004394483

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Literary Representations of Christianity in Late Qing and Republican China by John T. P. Lai Pdf

Literary Representations of Christianity in Late Qing and Republican China examines the multiple representations of Christianity through the major genres of Chinese Christian literature (novels, drama and poetry) of the late Qing and Republican periods.

Author : Riika-Leena Juntunen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004302945

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Borrowed Place by Riika-Leena Juntunen Pdf

In Borrowed Place Riika-Leena Juntunen creates a microhistorical narrative around mission stations to reveal how the foreign structures became localized and adapted in their new environment during the turbulent years of early twentieth century Hunan.

Author : Alexander Michie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : China
ISBN : UOM:39015002154857

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Missionaries in China by Alexander Michie Pdf

Author : Matteo Nicolini-Zani
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814646007

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Christian Monks on Chinese Soil by Matteo Nicolini-Zani Pdf

The contribution of monks to the evangelization of lands not yet reached by the preaching of the Gospel has certainly been remarkable. The specific witness that the monastic community gives is of a radical Christian life naturally radiating outward, and thus it is implicitly missionary. The process of inculturation of Christian monasticism in China required a bold spiritual attitude of openness to the future and a willingness to accept the transformation of monastic forms that had been received. In Christian Monks on Chinese Soil, Matteo Nicolini-Zani highlights the willingness of foreign monks to encounter the cultural and spiritual realities of China and the degree of acceptance by the Chinese of the form of monastic life that was presented to them by the missionaries.

Author : Alan Richard Sweeten
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004416185

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China's Old Churches by Alan Richard Sweeten Pdf

Alan Sweeten’s China’s Old Churches presents a long-term historical view of Catholicism in north China as seen through Western-style sacred structures. Using historical materials as well as architectural and visual evidence, he reveals churches’ former impact and their present-day legacy.

Author : David Strong
Publisher : ATF Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781925643633

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A Call to Mission - A History of the Jesuits in China 1842-1954 by David Strong Pdf

China has bulked large in the imagination of the Catholic Church for 500 years. It had been central to the missionary dream of the Jesuits for almost as long. However, only with this book's appearance has the detailed focus of attention shifted to the substantial and neglected period of catholic and Jesuit engagement with china - the almost 120 years from the second arrival of the Jesuits. Matteo Ricci the polymath, Ferdinand Verbeist and Adam Schall von Bell the astronomers and the exquisite painter who influenced Chinese painting beyond measure, Giuseppe Castiglione, have been written about, made ls of and been the heart and soul of the first stage of Jesuit impact on China - in the 17th and 18th Centuries. They brought Western learning and art to China and took Chinese language and literature to Europe. The Jesuits were the first multinational to be welcomed in China and they came with a specific method of engagement - to make friends build relationships and share their gifts before anything else was transacted, including conversations about Christianity. It remains an unsurpassed method of engagement with a rich and ancient people. But the second arrival - from the 1840's - was very different. It was made possible by the arrival of European governments and traders, many of whom came not just for financial gain but to spread their "superior" religion. This work by David Strong in two volumes is the first major treatment of the period from the arrival of the European and eventually American Jesuit missionaries under the protection of the so called Unequal Treaties through to their expulsion after the Communist victory in the long running civil war in 1949. Volume II- The Wider European Adventure- covers the commitments, places and activities of missions undertaken by the Spaniards, Austrian, Hungarians, Italians, French Canadians, and lastly in the 1930s, the Americans from California.