D. E. Mungello

This Suffering Is My Joy (eBook, ePUB)

The Underground Church in Eighteenth-Century China

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781538150306
• Artikelnr.: 61325753

Autorenporträt

D. E. Mungello has been a leading scholar in Sino-Western history. From 1979 to 2016 he founded and edited a journal dedicated to the post-Mao Zedong era revival of contacts between Chinese and foreign historians. His books include Leibniz and Confucianism, Curious Land , The Great Encounter of China and the West, 1500-1800, The Spirit and the Flesh in Shandong, 1650-1785, Drowning Girls in China: Female Infanticide since 1650, Western Queers in China: Flight to the Land of Oz, The Catholic Invasion of China, This Suffering is my Joy: The Underground Church in Eighteenth-Century China and Interracial Lovers in Revolutionary China. He is the Professor of History Emeritus at Baylor University.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Author's Note
1 The Underground Church in China
Historical Background
The Auspicious Beginning of Catholicism in China
The Eighteenth-Century Crisis
2 Matteo Ripa's Attempt to Establish a School for Chinese Priests in China
Fr. Matteo Ripa's Spiritual Vision
Ripa's Journey to China
Ripa at the Chinese Court
Ripa's First School for Boys
Opposition to Ripa's School
Ripa Departs Beijing with Five Chinese
The Journey from Guangzhou (Canton) to London and Naples
3 Founding of the Chinese College for Priests in Naples
Financial Struggles in Founding the Chinese College
The First Chinese College Graduates Return to China
Problems with Chinese Students in Naples
More Students Arrive from China
Lucio Wu as Ripa's "Perpetual Cross to Bear"
Lucio's Second Flight and Imprisonment in Castel Sant'Angelo
4 Racial and Cultural Tensions between Chinese and European Priests
Fr. Filippo Huang in China
Fr. Huang's Struggles as a Missionary in N