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The Catholic Invasion of China - Remaking Chinese Christianity (Hardcover)
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The Catholic Invasion of China - Remaking Chinese Christianity (Hardcover)
Series: Critical Issues in World and International History
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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.
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