At the frontier of God's empire : a missionary odyssey in modern China / Ji Li.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-229) and index.

Manchuria: migration and Christianity -- Letters and conversations -- The missionary -- The village -- The battlefield -- The church -- The bandits -- Conclusion: the murder and the imperial legacy.

"Manchuria, or northeast China, is strategically located at the intersection of four major powers in Northeast Asia: China, Russia, Japan, and Korea. Its inhabitants include Chinese, Russians, Japanese, Koreans, Manchus, Mongolians of various ethnicities, and other indigenous populations. The Manchus conquered China proper in 1644 and founded China's last imperial dynasty, the Qing. In the two hundred years that followed, the Manchu rulers established a multiethnic and multicultural empire. However, as the homeland of the Manchus, Manchuria became emblematic of "the Manchu Way," and from the seventeenth century onward, the Qing government enforced strict but fluctuating policies to prevent the migration of Han Chinese to Manchuria. The restrictions lasted until the mid-nineteenth century, when the Qing began to loosen its prohibition on immigration to Manchuria amid challenges posed by domestic crises and the expansion of Western imperialism. In 1858, Niuzhuang (Newchwang), a small town on the upper reaches of the Liao River in the Liaodong Peninsula, became the first treaty port open to the West on China's northeast frontier following the Treaty of Tianjin, signed after the Second Opium War. A few years later, in 1864, a British customs office was established there. The British chose this small river town in southern Manchuria to open up the market of northeast China and spearhead its strategic interests in the region, particularly in response to the regional imperial competition between Russia and Japan. But before the Anglo-Japanese Alliance of 1902, British policy in Manchuria was weak and indecisive"-- Provided by publisher.

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God's little daughters : Catholic women in nineteenth-century Manchuria / Ji Li.
Outgrowth of the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of Michigan, 2009) under title: Becoming faithful : Christianity, literacy, and female consciousness in Northeast China, 1830-1930.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface : Discovering the Du letters -- Acknowledgments -- Christianity, gender, and literacy in Northeast China -- Religion, women, and writing in rural China -- Religious knowledge and behavior -- Establishing faith in local society -- Institutionalization and indigenization -- Faith, gender, and a new female literacy in modern China -- Epilogue : Meeting the Du descendants -- Appendix : MEP missionaries and indigenous priests.

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Missions Étrangères de Paris (MEP) and China from the seventeenth century to the present /  edited by Ji Li.

Chiefly English with some French.

Papers from an international conference held July 26-27, 2017 at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction.  Placing the Societe des Missions Etrangeres de Paris (MEP) in Late Imperial and Modem China/  Ji Li --  Cultural Accommodation in the 17th and 18th Centuries.  Nobis Solis Sinensibus : When Jean Basset Identified Himself as Being Chinese to Promote the Term Shangdi /  François Barriquand --  Telling Biblical Stories in Chinese : A Case Study of Two Gospel Texts Initiated by Jean Basset /  Yanrong Chen --  The Formulation and Implementation of the Rules for Virgins and Their Influence on the Historical Process of the Chinese Church /  Zhijie Kang,  Qing Wu --  Intensification of Evangelization in the Early and Mid-19th Century.  Roman Catholic Presence in Guangdong at the Time of the Return of the MEP in the Mid-19th Century /  Jean-Paul Wiest --  La Mort d' Auguste Chapdelaine : Prétexte d'une Guerre, Occasion du Protectorat Religieux de la France en Chine /  Matthieu Masson --  Expansion of MEP Presence in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries.  Bishop Guillemin and the Creation of the French Catholic Mission's Real Estate Empire in South China /  Hongyan Xiang --  MEP Missionary Educational Endeavors in Modem Southwest China : A Case Study of the Latin School and Kanghua Elementary School in Kangding /  Aidong Zhao --  Le Proces en diffamation de Paul-Hubert Pemy : Un aperçu de la sinologie française dans la deuxième moitié du xixe siècle /  Lina Guo --  Conclusion.  Vignettes of Responses by MEP Missionaries to China, 1886-1936 /  Ernest P. Young --  Appendix.  The MEP in China : A Chronology from the 17th Century to the Present /  Jean-Pierre Charbonnier.

"The first scholarly work on the subject by leading scholars in the field, Missions Étrangères de Paris (MEP) and China examines the variety of ways in which MEP missionaries complemented and complicated Catholic Church and French engagement with Chinese society. Key players in the Church's overseas missions in the Far East, many MEP missionaries spent their entire lives working with ordinary Chinese. This volume explores the proactive engagement of MEP missionaries in Bible translation and cultural accommodation, their evangelization efforts in local communities, and the interaction between MEP representatives and various local groups. Each study in this book responds to one or more of the major themes in the history of Christianity in China that include conflicts, accommodations, indigenization, imperialism, and nationalism. Contributors are François Barriquand, Jean Charbonnier, Yanrong Chen, Lina Guo, Zhijie Kang, Ji Li, Matthieu Masson, Jean-Paul Wiest, Qing Wu, Hongyan Xiang, Ernest Young, and Aidong Zhao"-- Provided by publisher.

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