This Suffering Is My Joy: The Underground Church in Eighteenth-Century China by

Description: This Suffering Is My Joy by D.E. Mungello This book studies the Chinese Catholic church in a time of persecution, focusing in particular on the role of Chinese clergy and lay leaders in maintaining communities of clandestine Catholics. D. E. Mungello portrays a world in flux, where the certainties of the past were beginning to give way to new insights. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Tracing the little-known history of the first underground Catholic church in China, Mungello illuminates the century between the imperial expulsion of missionaries in 1724 and their return with European colonialism in the 1800s. This time of persecution offered an opportunity for the Chinese, rather than Europeans, to control their own church. Author Biography D. E. Mungello is professor of history at Baylor University. His books include The Great Encounter of China and the West, 1500–1800, Drowning Girls in China: Female Infanticide since 1650, Western Queers in China: The Fight to the Land of Oz, and The Catholic Invasion of China. Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Authors Note 1 The Underground Church in China Historical Background The Auspicious Beginning of Catholicism in China The Eighteenth-Century Crisis 2 Matteo Ripas Attempt to Establish a School for Chinese Priests in China Fr. Matteo Ripas Spiritual Vision Ripas Journey to China Ripa at the Chinese Court Ripas First School for Boys Opposition to Ripas 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 Ripas "Perpetual Cross to Bear" Lucios Second Flight and Imprisonment in Castel SantAngelo 4 Racial and Cultural Tensions between Chinese and European Priests Fr. Filippo Huang in China Fr. Huangs Struggles as a Missionary in Northern Shanxi Growing Tensions between Chinese and European Priests Anti-Christian Movement ("Great Persecution") of 1784 5 Emergence of the Underground Church The Underground Church in Japan The Formation of Chinese Jesuit Priests Chinese Priests and Catechists in Sichuan The Formation of Chinese Underground Priests Christian Virgins (Chaste Women) in Sichuan Chinese Priests in Jiangnan 6 European and Chinese Forms of Martyrdom Sacrifice and Martyrdom among Chinese Priests and Catechists Indigenous Chinese Catholic Leadership Mendicant Martyrdoms Chinese Christian Martyrdoms Conclusion Bibliography Index Review David Mungello concludes his cavalcade across three centuries by telling us that the history of the underground church of the eighteenth century is deeply relevant to understanding church-state relations in China today. This emblematic story, in fact, goes beyond the experience of one single church. The operative word here is underground, a way for many local communities to go undetected, survive, and resist state authorities and dominant orthodoxies over the course of Chinese imperial and modern history. Even today, underground cultures within religion, the arts, literature, politics, and ethnic and sexual groups continue to offer spaces of expression that represent another China. It is a China to be celebrated, not hidden, policed, and shamed by power, as much yesterday as today.Over decades, D. E. Mungello has made a name for himself as an accomplished author and meticulous historian. This new work is no exception, drawing on important archival collections and dealing with representations of European Catholic missionaries in late imperial China. Focusing on Matteo Ripa and the Christian Chinese community leaders in his entourage, Mungello addresses the historically difficult topic of indigenization within the Catholic clergy during the premodern era. His book thus portrays a world in flux, where the certainties of the past--both Confucian and European--were beginning to give way to new insights.The book represents a wonderful combination of macro and micro studies. Although the focus is on the Chinese Catholic underground church, it places it in the context of global Catholicism and cultural exchanges between China and the West. At the same time, it compares the development of Catholicism in China with that in Japan and elsewhere. This research approach helps advance the study of the history of Chinese Catholicism before the Opium War. At the same time, the book provides a wealth of documentation and clues for expanding related research.This erudite history provides essential new insight into how Chinese priests and lay catechists preserved the Catholic Church when it was forbidden, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. They lived a martyrdom overlooked until Mungellos elegant portrait, based poignantly on diaries written in Latin to avoid detection by hostile local officials. This Suffering Is My Joy is a pearl of a book.This new monograph by a leading historian of Chinese Christianity makes a major contribution to our understanding of the development of indigenous Catholicism in pre-Opium War China.This the book is an innovative reading for those interested in Chinese-Catholic historical and ideological interactions. Readers looking for an unusual perspective, i.e., the point of view of the persecuted believers, will find here inspiring material. This Suffering is my Joy answers a plea by scholars in the field by providing narratives of the China mission from the point of view of Chinese persons and from the lives of local communities.This Suffering is My Joy provides a timely record of how Gods people in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries responded to government persecution and endured. This historical demonstration of the inability of the gates of hell to prevail against the church of Christ is a most welcome reminder for todays China ministry community of Gods unending faithfulness. Long Description 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. Review Quote This erudite history provides essential new insight into how Chinese priests and lay catechists preserved the Catholic Church when it was forbidden, in the XVIII and XIX centuries. They lived a martyrdom overlooked until Mungellos elegant portrait, based poignantly on diaries written in Latin to avoid detection by hostile local officials. This Suffering is My Joy is a pearl of a book. Details ISBN1538150298 Author D.E. Mungello Short Title This Suffering Is My Joy Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 1538150298 ISBN-13 9781538150290 Format Hardcover Subtitle The Underground Church in Eighteenth-Century China DEWEY 282.5109033 Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Place of Publication Lanham, MD Country of Publication United States UK Release Date 2021-03-29 NZ Release Date 2021-03-29 US Release Date 2021-03-29 Illustrations Illustrations, unspecified; Maps; Black & White Illustrations Pages 186 Publisher Rowman & Littlefield Publication Date 2021-03-29 Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2021-04-14 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:131448239;

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