Missions Étrangères de Paris (MEP) and China from the seventeenth century to the present
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Missions Étrangères de Paris (MEP) and China from the seventeenth century to the present
(Studies in the history of Christianity in East Asia / editors-in-chief, M. Antoni J. Ucerler, Wu Xiaoxin, v. 6)
Brill, c2022
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The first scholarly work on the subject by leading scholars in the field, Missions Etrangeres de Paris (MEP) and China examines the variety of ways in which MEP missionaries complemented and complicated Catholic Church and French engagement with Chinese society. Key players in the Church's overseas missions in the Far East, many MEP missionaries spent their entire lives working with ordinary Chinese. This volume explores the proactive engagement of MEP missionaries in Bible translation and cultural accommodation, their evangelization efforts in local communities, and the interaction between MEP representatives and various local groups. Each study in this book responds to one or more of the major themes in the history of Christianity in China that include conflicts, accommodations, indigenization, imperialism, and nationalism.
Contributors are Francois Barriquand, Jean Charbonnier, Yanrong Chen, Lina Guo, Zhijie Kang, Ji Li, Matthieu Masson, Jean-Paul Wiest, Qing Wu, Hongyan Xiang, Ernest Young, and Aidong Zhao.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures and Tables
Introduction: Placing the Societe des Missions Etrangeres de Paris (MEP) in Late Imperial and Modern China
Ji Li
Part 1 Cultural accommodation in the 17th and 18th centuries
1 Nobis Solis Sinensibus: When Jean Basset Identified Himself as Chinese in Order to Promote the Term Shangdi
Francois Barriquand
2 Telling Biblical Stories in Chinese: A Case Study of Two Gospel Texts
Yanrong Chen
3 The Formulation and Implementation of Rules for Virgins and its Influence on the Historical Process of Chinese Church
Zhijie Kang and Qing Wu
Part 2 Intensification of Evangelization in the Early and Mid-19th Century
4 Roman Catholic Presence in Guangdong at the Time of the Return of the MEP in the Mid-19th Century
Jean-Paul Wiest
5 La Mort d' Auguste Chapdelaine : Pretexte d' une Guerre, Occasion du Protectorat Religieux de la France en Chine
Matthieu Masson
Part 3 Expansion of MEP Presence in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries
6 Bishop Guillemin and the Creation of MEP's Real Estate Empire in South China
Hongyan Xiang
7 MEP Missionary Educational Endeavors in Modern Southwest China: A Case Study of Latin School and Kanghua Elementary School in Kangding
Aidong Zhao
8 Le Proces en diffamation de Paul-Hubert Perny: Un apercu de la sinologie francaise dans la deuxieme moitie du XIXe siecle
Lina Guo
Conclusion: Vignettes of Responses by MEP Missionaries to China, 1886-1936
Ernest P. Young
Appendix: MEP in China: A Chronology from the 17th Century to the Present
Jean-Pierre Charbonnier
Index
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