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Author:   D. E. Mungello
Publisher:   Rowman & Littlefield
Imprint:   Rowman & Littlefield
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.308kg
ISBN:  

9781538173978

ISBN 10:   1538173972
Pages:   186
Publication Date:   17 August 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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 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

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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. * Journal of Asian Studies * 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. -- Lars Peter Laamann, SOAS University of London 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 Mungello's 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. -- Victor Gaetan, author of God's Diplomats: Pope Francis, Vatican Diplomacy, and America's Armageddon 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. -- Eugenio Menegon, Boston University

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D. E. Mungello is professor of history emeritus 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.

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