The Catholic invasion of China : remaking Chinese Christianity
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The Catholic invasion of China : remaking Chinese Christianity
（Critical issues in world and international history）
Rowman & Littlefield, c2015
- : cloth
- : pbc
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-164) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Illustrations
Maps
Chronology of Events in the Catholic Invasion of China
Acknowledgments
Chapter One: Catholicism and Western Imperialism in China
Chapter Two: Spiritual Domination by European Catholics in Nineteenth-Century China
Chapter Three: European Resistance to the Emergence of an Indigenous Catholic Church
Chapter Four: Love and Hysteria in Catholic Orphanages in China
Chapter Five: Sexual Domination by Catholic Priests in China
Chapter Six: The Misreading of the Missionary "Debacle" in China
Appendix A: List of the 120 Martyrs in China Canonized by John Paul II in 2000
Appendix B: Chinese Character Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
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