A Chinese Jesuit catechism : Giulio Aleni's four character classic 四字經文 / Anthony E. Clark.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chapter1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Translation of Wang Yinglin's Sanzijing 三字經 (Three Character Classic) -- 3: Chapter Translation of Giulio Aleni's Sizijingwen 四字經文 (Four Character Classic) -- Giulio Aleni's Oeuvre -- Bibliography -- Index.

"This book is the first scholarly study of the famous Jesuit Chinese children's primer, the Four Character Classic, written by Giulio Aleni (1582-1649) while living in Fujian, China. This book also includes masterful translations of both Wang Yinglin's (1551-1602) hallowed Confucian Three Character Classic and Aleni's Chinese catechism that was published during the Qing (1644-1911). Clark's careful reading of the Four Character Classic provides new insights into an area of the Jesuit mission in early modern China that has so far been given little attention, the education of children. This book underscores how Aleni's published work functions as a good example of the Jesuit use of normative Chinese print culture to serve the catechetical exigencies of the Catholic mission in East Asia, particularly his meticulous imitation of Confucian children's primers to promote decidedly Christian content." --back cover

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A voluntary exile : Chinese Christianity and cultural confluence since 1552 / edited by Anthony E. Clark.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-213) and index.

Illustrations (starting p. vii) --  Abbreviations (starting p. xi) --  Acknowledgments (starting p. xiii) --  Introduction: A Voluntary Exile: Crisis, Conflict, and Accommodation After Matteo Ricci (starting p. 1) /  Anthony E. Clark -- 1.  A Glorious Failure: The Mission of Francis Xavier and Its Consequences on the China Enterprise (starting p. 21) /  Eric P. Cunningham -- 2.  Jesuit Formation and Its Influence on the Methods of Matteo Ricci (starting p. 39) /  Michael Maher -- 3.  The Lefebvre Incident of 1754: The Qing State, Chinese Catholics, and a European Missionary (starting p. 59) /  Robert Entenmann -- 4.  Restoring the Ancient Faith: The Taiping Rebels and Their Mandate (starting p. 77) /  Thomas H. Reilly -- 5.  Mandarins and Martyrs of Taiyuan, Shanxi, in Late-Imperial China (starting p. 93) /  Anthony E. Clark -- 6.  Christianity for a Confucian Youth: Richard Wilhelm and His Lixian Shuyuan School for Boys in Qingdao, 1901 -- 1912 (starting p. 117) /  Lydia Gerber -- 7.  Catholic and Chinese Folk Religion during the Republican Era in the Region of Taiyuan, Shanxi (starting p. 145) /  Liu Anrong -- 8.  Church-State Accommodation in China's "Harmonious Society" (starting p. 173) /  Joseph Tse-Hei Lee --  Works Cited (starting p. 199) --  Index (starting p. 215)

Western missionaries in China often considered themselves "voluntary exiles" in a distant land, while Chinese considered Christians either the demons of imperialism or the angels of modernization. This collection of new research provides insights into attempts to bridge the social and religious divide that separated China and the West, and serves as an artful and captivating history of how missionaries and native Christians confronted the sometimes violent antagonisms caused by cultural and linguistic difference.

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This entire collection was compiled over several decades of field work in China, where Prof. Clark gathered a large number of images and documents in Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Rome, Paris, Krakow, as well as from a variety of rare book dealers within the United States, the UK, continental Europe, and Asia.

The collection includes hundreds of materials in English, Chinese, Classical Chinese, Latin, French, Italian, Spanish, and a variety of other European languages. Many of the books have been inscribed by the author or are autographed. A voracious collector, Professor Clark sought after first editions, rare books, ephemera, and otherwise often-overlooked materials and objects, and recognized that these are valuable tools for the scholar of the Catholic Church in China.

Materials within the Collection span from the missionary era in China from its inception to materials that continue into the contemporary era, up to this present day, late 2016. A large body of the collection is centered on China’s canonized Catholic saints, as well as the Boxer Uprising, the turbulence surrounding the events of 1900, and dilates on religious orders and their historic presence in China (including, for example, Franciscans, Jesuits, Dominicans, MEP, and PIME, to name a few). In this regard the Collection greatly enriches the current holdings of the Ricci Institute.

The assemblage of historical images related to the history of Christianity in China, within this greater collection, is unique. More than a dozen archival boxes include images both original and reproduced, many of the latter of which have been under threat, have already disappeared, or have dropped out of scholarly view. In short, in this remarkable collection scholars will likely see images that they have never before seen. Similarly the collection of Professor Clark’s research papers, housed in around 40 archival boxes organized by chronology, order, and diocese, is singular in its scope and breadth regarding the Catholic Church in China, as these items were collected during his research trips that occurred annually and spanned the globe. This, too is a diverse collection of materials, including those found in archives—some of which have now closed—or made fleeting internet appearances, were downloaded and printed, which are now too no longer available in their original source. In addition to this are approximately 30 archival boxes containing Professor Clarks personal papers and publication materials. In total the Collection contains approximately 12,000 pages of documents.

Anthony E. Clark, Ph.D., is the Lindaman Endowed Chair and Professor of History at Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington. The Ricci Institute currently holds one of the world’s most focused collections of materials and scholarship on the Catholic Church in China, and the addition of this collection assists in filling several areas of current lacunae. Prof. Clark has loaned this vast collection of research materials to the Ricci Institute at the University of San Francisco for the advancement of scholarship on the history of Catholic Christianity in China.

ANTHONY E. CLARK COLLECTION RESEARCH MATERIALS/BOOKS IN ARCHIVAL BOXES

COLLECTION OVERVIEW

Focus: History of Christianity in China, Late-Qing and Republican Era, Boxer Uprising

Collection Creator: Anthony E. Clark, Ph.D.

Primary Organizer: Hannah H. Tweet

Arrangement:
This collection is arranged into 10 series, with a total of 38 boxes. There are multiple boxes in each series and they are distinguished by alphabetical letters, i.e.: 001a, 001b, 001c, etc. Series 001, 002, and 005 each focus on a different missionary order in China – the Society of Jesus, the Order of Friars Minor, and the Congregation of the Mission, respectively. Series 004 contains only audio-visual digital files; though other digital files are located throughout the collection. Both series 006 and series 007 contain information regarding one particular person, Fr. Charles McCarthy, SJ, and Alphonse Favier, CM, respectively. The rest of the collection is divided into three different series of “varia,” though series 008 emphasizes research materials, and series 009 emphasizes information organized by religious order or diocese. Series 010 has no emphasis, but each box has its own described category.
Languages: English, Chinese, French

Scope and Contents of the Materials
The contents of this collection represent the collected materials and personal research notes of Professor Anthony E. Clark; all materials center on the history of Christianity in China, especially Roman Catholic missions during the late-imperial era (ca. 1700-1912). Some materials do, however, extend into the contemporary era, and many documents remain sensitive given China’s present political situation under Communist rule. In addition to the various documents and material objects preserved and catalogued, this collection includes a substantial amount of historical and current photographs, prints, and reproduced images related to Catholic Christianity in China. Also, represented in this collection are a number of rare books on this topic, several of which have been inscribed by the authors. [The provenance of the materials in this collection is sometimes recorded; many of the materials are reproduced from archives around the world, as noted.]

Administrative Information
Series Listing

Series 001: SJ (Society of Jesus)
Series 002: OFM (Order of Friars Minor)
Series 003: Post-Imperial/Modern China
Series 004: Audio-Visual Digital Files
Series 005: CM (Congregation of the Mission)
Series 006: Fr. Charles McCarthy, SJ
Series 007: Alphonse Favier, CM
Series 008: Church in China Varia – Research Materials
Series 009: Catholic Church in China Varia, by Order/Diocese
Series 010: Church in China Varia

Box and Folder Listing

Begins on page 1

ANTHONY E. CLARK COLLECTION
HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN CHINA ARCHIVE CATALOG
(Anthony E. Clark, Ph.D.)

Table of Contents
Series 001: SJ (Society of Jesus)………………………......……1
Series 002: OFM (Order of Friars Minor)…………………………………… 10
Series 003: Post-Imperial/Modern China …………………………………… 19
Series 004: Audio-Visual Digital Files…………………………….. 24
Series 005: CM (Congregation of the Mission)…………………………… 28
Series 006: Fr. Charles McCarthy, SJ………………………………… 38
Series 007: Alphonse Favier, CM……………………………………….... 42
Series 008: Church in China Varia – Research Materials…………………………………... 46
Series 009: Catholic Church in China Varia, by Order/Diocese …………………………... 54
Series 010: Church in China Varia…………………………………………. 64
Bibliography of Western Language Books ……………………………… 74

Ban Gu's history of early China / by Anthony E. Clark.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Inscribing the past: a history of Chinese history -- The perennial dangers of direct criticism -- Praise, blame, and the modes of judgment -- Inscribing the text: a history of the history of the Han -- "True editions" and Qing skepticism -- Structure and sources of the history of the Han -- Accretions and additions -- From Han to PRC: filiations of transmission -- Inscribing the family: a history of the Ban clan -- Ban Gu, Sima Qian, and rewriting the past -- Inscribing genealogy -- Ban Bo and the family's rise to a consort clan -- Narrating though the dangers of court -- Historicizing advantage: highlighting privilege, loyalty, and influence -- Inscribing the self: ban gu's positioning of text and self -- Eclipse of the imperial family: Wang Mang and the Liu eviction -- Constructing Wang Mang: duplicity, omenology, and despotism -- Inheriting family principles in the wake of political collapse -- Ban Gu: filial son and favored historian -- A new heaven, a new mandate -- Inscribing the state: killing snakes, chasing deer, and reconceiving -- Heaven's mandate -- Heaven and its mandate: earlier assumptions and later innovations -- Killing snakes: legitimizing the Han's mandate -- Chasing deer: a predetermined and permanent mandate -- Zan : a final appraisal.

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Beating devils and burning their books : views of China, Japan and the West / edited by Anthony E. Clark.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-232) and index.

Contending representations : East-West / Anthony E. Clark -- The Chinese macabre in missionary publications and horror fiction / Eric Reinders -- Rape, baptism, and the 'pig' religion : Chinese images of foreign missionaries during the late nineteenth century / Anthony E. Clark -- In search of a Chinese picturesque : William Alexander, George Chinnery, and the visual image of China in nineteenth-century Britain / Catherine Pagani -- China and the confluence of cultures : overcoming the East-West mind-set / Lionel M. Jensen -- (Mis)conceiving the self in early China : memory and truth in early Chinese autobiographical writing / Matthew Wells -- From beat to hardcore : a new twist on phony Zen / Eric P. Cunningham -- The elusive middle : between romanticism and condemnation in the Buddhist imaginary / Mark T. Unno.

China Gothic : the bishop of Beijing and his cathedral / Anthony E. Clark ; foreword by Leland M. Roth.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

The civilizing mission : a French church on Chinese soil -- The fruits of diplomacy : building a genteel empire -- Competing shadows : Beijing's first North Church -- China Gothic : Alphonse Favier's North Church -- The contours of reconstruction : Favier and the French mission.

As China struggled to redefine itself at the turn of the twentieth century, nationalism, religion, and material culture intertwined in revealing ways. This phenomenon is evident in the twin biographies of North China's leading Catholic bishop of the time, Alphonse Favier (1837-1905), and the Beitang cathedral, epicenter of the Roman Catholic mission in China through incarnations that began in 1701. After its relocation and reconstruction under Favier's supervision, the cathedral-and Favier-miraculously survived a two-month siege in 1900 during the Boxer Rebellion. Featuring a French Gothic Revival design augmented by Chinese dragon-shaped gargoyles, marble balustrades in the style of Daoist and Buddhist temples, and other Chinese aesthetic flourishes, Beitang remains an icon of Sino-Western interaction. Anthony Clark draws on archival materials from the Vatican and collections in France, Italy, China, Poland, and the United States to trace the prominent role of French architecture in introducing Western culture and Catholicism to China. A principal device was the aesthetic imagined by the Gothic Revival movement of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the premier example of this in China being the Beitang cathedral. Bishop Favier's biography is a lens through which to examine Western missionaries' role in colonial endeavors and their complex relationship with the Chinese communities in which they lived and worked.

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China's Catholics in an era of transformation : observations of an "outsider" / Anthony E. Clark.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-265) and index.

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Timeline of Christianity in China -- Notes -- Contents -- List of Figures -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Getting Oriented, 2005-2010 -- 2.1 Essay 2.1 Missionaries, Martyrs, and a Narrative of Anguish (December 2005) -- 2.1.1 The Missionary Martyrs -- 2.1.2 Unrighteous Disharmony -- 2.1.3 Sacrilege and Martyrdom -- 2.1.4 "Every Drop of My Blood" -- 2.2 Essay 2.2 China's Church(es): An Interview with Father Daniel Cerezo (June 2006) -- 2.2.1 Two Chinese Churches? -- 2.2.2 Following Catholic Morality in a Communist Context -- 2.2.3 Catholicism in China's Urban Centers

2.2.4 China's Future Catholics? -- 2.3 Essay 2.3 China's Catholics in the Shadow of the Olympics (August 2008) -- 2.4 Essay 2.4 Beijing's Catholics in the Shadow of the Party (September 2008) -- 2.5 Essay 2.5 Guizhou's Three Bishops and the Church "Underground" (October 2008) -- 2.6 Essay 2.6 Suffering, Survival, and a Communion of Complexity (December 2008) -- 2.7 Essay 2.7 Reflections on Resolve: China's Catholics Through Eras of Change (March 2009) -- 2.7.1 The Arrival of Catholicism -- 2.7.2 The Rise of Communism -- 2.7.3 We Know Who You Are -- 2.7.4 Conflicting Loyalties

2.7.5 History Is Off-Limits -- 2.7.6 Beholden to the Party -- 2.7.7 Perseverance -- 2.8 Essay 2.8 Matteo Ricci and His Legacy of China-West Dialogue (May 2009) -- 2.8.1 The Missionary -- 2.8.2 The Apologist -- 2.8.3 The Controversy -- 2.8.4 The Legacy -- 2.9 Essay 2.9 China's Largest Catholic Village (July 2010) -- 2.10 Essay 2.10 No Easy Answers: A Discussion with Bishop Aloysius Jin Luxian (July 2010) -- 3 Making Friends and Mourning Losses, 2011-2013 -- 3.1 Essay 3.1 Hard Answers: A Discussion with Cardinal Joseph Zen (May 2011)
5058 3.2 Essay 3.2 Ambiguous Lines: "Underground" and "Aboveground" (May 2011) -- 3.2.1 The History of the "Underground" -- 3.2.2 A Collaborative Relationship -- 3.2.3 A Realistic Assessment -- 3.3 Essay 3.3 Divided We Fall -- United We Endure (June 2011) -- 3.3.1 China's Rising Shortage of Clergy -- 3.3.2 New Bishops and New Divisions -- 3.3.3 Renewed Persecutions -- 3.3.4 Old Wounds and New Healing -- 3.4 Essay 3.4 9 July 1900: China's Franciscan Martyrs (July 2011) -- 3.5 Essay 3.5 Between Communism and Catholicism: Six Decades (December 2011) -- 3.5.1 Envoi

3.6 Essay 3.6 Between Communism and Catholicism: A Bishop (December 2011) -- 3.7 Essay 3.7 In the Footsteps of Jesuits: Two Chinese Catholic Villages (January 2012) -- 3.7.1 Wuyi Village -- 3.7.2 Zhujiahe Village -- 3.8 Essay 3.8 "Eating Bitterness" and the Hope for Freedom (February 2012) -- 3.8.1 The Church in China Today -- 3.8.2 Some Recent Reports -- 3.8.3 The Challenge of China -- 3.9 Essay 3.9 China's Catholics in Confusing Times (April 2012) -- 3.9.1 Patience in a Time of Repression -- 3.10 Essay 3.10 A Small Note on a Large Number of Baptisms (April 2012)....to be continued.

"This book features a collection of essays on China's modern Catholic Church by a scholar of China-West intellectual and religious exchange. The essays and reflections were mostly written in China while the author was traveling by train, or staying in villages or large cities near to Roman Catholic cathedrals or other important historical sites during research trips to the country. It is clear that Clark's understanding of Catholicism in China evolved from the first entry to the final ones in 2019. The essays included in this compendium were written in disparate contexts and in response to different events. As such, there is no obvious theme or order to the content. However, despite this, the book provides valuable insights for readers wishing to gain a better understanding of the complex topography of Catholic history in China, the contours of which have undergone stark transformations with each dynastic, political, and ecclesial transition. The information presented serves to highlight and explain the lives of Catholic people and the events that have punctuated one of the most significant dimensions of China's long history of friendship, conflict and exchange with the West."--Provided by publisher.

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China's Christianity : from missionary to indigenous church / edited by Anthony E. Clark.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Among the assumptions interrogated in this volume ... is if Christianity should most accurately be identified as 'Chinese' when it displays vestiges of Chinese cultural aesthetics, or whether Chinese Christianity is more indigenous when it is allowed to form its own theological framework. In other words, can theological uniqueness also function as a legitimate Chinese Christian cultural expression in the formation of its own ecclesial identity? Also central to what is explored in this book is how missionary influences, consciously or unconsciously, introduced seeds of independence into the cultural ethos of China's Christian community. Chinese girls who pushed 'the limits of proper behaviour,' for example, added to the larger sense of confidence as China's Christians began to resist the model of Christianity they had inherited from foreign missionaries."-- Back cover.

Introduction:  "China's Christianity" and the ideal of a universal church /  Anthony E. Clark -- Chapter 1:  Christianity along the warpath : the anti-Christian movement in Shantou during the Eastern Expedition (1925) /  Joseph Tse-hei Lee -- Chapter 2:  Imaging missions, visualizing experience : American Presbyterian photography, filmmaking, and Chinese Christianity in republican China /  Joseph W. Ho -- Chapter 3:  The 1670 Chinese missal : a struggle for indigenization amidst the Chinese rites controversy /  Audrey Seah -- Chapter 4:  Sealing fate and changing course : French Catholicism and Chinese conversion /  Anthony E. Clark -- Chapter 5:  Testing the limits of proper behavior : women students in and beyond the Weimar mission schools in Qingdao 1905-1914 /  Lydia Gerber -- Chapter 6:  Father Leonard Amrhein, CP : missionary zeal and shared experience of suffering and compassion with Chinese Catholics in wartime and late twentieth-century China /  Robert E. Carbonneau, CP -- Chapter 7:  Adjustment and advocacy : Charles McCarthy, SJ, and China's Jesuit mission in transition /  Amanda C.R. Clark -- Chapter 8:  Indigenizing the prophetess : toward a Chinese denominational practice /  Christie Chui-Shan Chow -- Chapter 9:  The making of a Chinese church : as lived by Chinese Christians /  Jean-Paul Wiest -- Chapter 10:  Rapid progress and remarkable accomplishments : the study of Christianity in China by a new generation of Chinese scholars /  Xiaoxin Wu.

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China's saints : Catholic martyrdom during the Qing (1644-1911) / Anthony E. Clark.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

"While previous works on the history of Christianity in China have largely centered on the scientific and philosophical areas of Catholic missions in the Middle Kingdom, China's Saints recounts the history of Christian martyrdom, precipitated as it was by cultural antagonisms and misunderstanding. Anthony Clark shows that Christianity in China began and grew under similar circumstances to those during the Roman Empire, with the notable exception that Catholic missionaries were not successful at producing a "Chinese Constantine." One of the principal results of Catholic martyrdom in China was the increased indigenization of Christianity. During the reconstruction of mission churches, hospitals, and orphanages after the hostilities of the Boxer Uprising (1898-1900), the Roman Catholic tradition of venerating martyrs was attached to the reinvigoration of Christian communities. Not only did Catholic architecture accommodate to Chinese sensibilities, but causes for sainthood were also begun at the Vatican to add Chinese names to the Church's list of saints. The implications of Clark's work extend beyond the subject of Christianity in China to the broader fields of cultural, social, economic, political, and religious history. This pioneering study followsthe trails of Western missionaries and Chinese converts as they negotiate the religious and cultural chasms that existed between the West and China, and it demonstrates that these differences resulted in two very different outcomes. Whereas converts appear to have bridged the cultural divide, often to the point of self-sacrifice, political and cultural tensions on the macro level sometimes ended with forceful conflicts. This book contributes to a deeper understanding of cultural and religious interaction,and provides an account of an heretofore unstudied chapter in the history of Christianity on the global landscape."--Book details.

The food of beasts: martyrdom and death in perspective -- Catholic Christianity in China: Nestorian inroads, Franciscan successes, Jesuit accommodations, and the modern chaos -- The Dominican martyrs of Fujian -- The Jesuit martyrs of Hebei -- The Franciscan martyrs of Hunan and Shanxi -- Other martyrs from other missions -- Conclusion: conflict to accommodation: resettling in the aftermath -- Appendix: beatification and canonization dates of China's saints.

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Heaven in conflict : Franciscans and the Boxer uprising in Shanxi / Anthony E. Clark.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-212) and index.

Chronology of Franciscans in China -- Map of Shanxi -- Prologue: war of the immortals -- The drought and the heavenly battle -- Taiyuan, from mission to diocese -- Boxers and local gods -- Catholics and foreign gods -- The deluge and the earthly battle -- Red lantern women and Franciscan sisters -- Friars, magistrates, and the Fists of Righteous Harmony -- Revenge and reconstruction.

Episodes: China and the Cross -- The Faith of China -- Holy Sons of St. Dominic -- Greater Glory of God -- My God and My All (Parts I & II) -- For Christ and Charity -- Unto Death -- In Faith and Truth -- Holy Sons of St. Don Bosco -- The Blood of the Martyrs -- The Via Crucis -- Seeds of the Church.

Xinde yongzhe : Zhonghua xundao shengren jianshi 信德勇者 : 中華殉道聖人簡史 / Ke Xuebin (Anthony E. Clark) zhu 柯學斌 (Anthony E. Clark) 著 ; Zhang Meina yi 張美娜譯.
"2011年柯學斌教授替美國「永恆聖言電視網絡」(Eternal Word Television Network) 主持一輯13集有關中國殉道聖人的節目, ...... 該節目內容文稿及有關資料, ...... 譯成中文 ..."--Pages v-vi.

2 copies, one RI & one AEC collection.