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The missionary's curse and other tales from a Chinese Catholic village / Henrietta Harrison.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Asia--local studies/global themes ; 26.Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2013]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 0520954726
  • 9780520954724
  • 1299587798
  • 9781299587793
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 282/.5117 23
LOC classification:
  • BX1666.S53 H37 2013
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
1. The Ancestors Who Founded the Village -- 2. The Bishop and the Wolf -- 3. The Priest Who Ran Away to Rome -- 4. The Boxer Uprising and the Souls in Purgatory -- 5. The Missionary Who Cursed the Village -- 6. The Four Fragrances and the Flying Bicycle -- 7. The Village Since the 1980s.
Summary: This book tells the story of a Chinese village that has been Catholic since the seventeenth century, drawing direct connections between its history, the globalizing church, and the nation. The author recounts the popular folk tales of merchants and peasants who once adopted Catholic rituals and teachings for their own purposes, only to find themselves in conflict with the orthodoxy of Franciscan missionaries arriving from Italy. The village's long religious history, combined with the similarities between Chinese folk religion and Italian Catholicism, forces us to rethink the extreme violence committed in the area during the Boxer Uprising. The author also follows nineteenth century Chinese priests who campaigned against missionary control, up through the founding of the official church by the Communist Party in the 1950s.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)577620

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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This book tells the story of a Chinese village that has been Catholic since the seventeenth century, drawing direct connections between its history, the globalizing church, and the nation. The author recounts the popular folk tales of merchants and peasants who once adopted Catholic rituals and teachings for their own purposes, only to find themselves in conflict with the orthodoxy of Franciscan missionaries arriving from Italy. The village's long religious history, combined with the similarities between Chinese folk religion and Italian Catholicism, forces us to rethink the extreme violence committed in the area during the Boxer Uprising. The author also follows nineteenth century Chinese priests who campaigned against missionary control, up through the founding of the official church by the Communist Party in the 1950s.

1. The Ancestors Who Founded the Village -- 2. The Bishop and the Wolf -- 3. The Priest Who Ran Away to Rome -- 4. The Boxer Uprising and the Souls in Purgatory -- 5. The Missionary Who Cursed the Village -- 6. The Four Fragrances and the Flying Bicycle -- 7. The Village Since the 1980s.

English.