Jesuits and matriarchs : domestic worship in early modern China /  Nadine Amsler.

Cover title varies slightly: Jesuits & matriarchs.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Clothes make the man: the Jesuits' adoption of literati masculinity -- A kingdom of virtuous women: Jesuit descriptions of China's moral topography -- A source of creative tension: literati Jesuits and priestly duties -- Strengthening the marital bond: the Christianization of Chinese marriage -- Praying for progeny: women and Catholic spiritual remedies -- Domestic communities: women's congregations and communal piety -- Sharing genteel spirituality: the female networks of the Xus of Shanghai -- A widow and her virgins: the domestic convents of Hangzhou and Nanjing -- Fabrics of devotion: Catholic women's pious patronage -- Conclusion: Women and gender in global Catholicism.

In early modern China, Jesuit missionaries associated with the male elite of Confucian literati in order to proselytize more freely, but they had limited contact with women, whose ritual spaces were less accessible. Historians of Catholic evangelism have similarly directed their attention to the devotional practices of men, neglecting the interior spaces in Chinese households where women worshipped and undertook the transmission of Catholicism to family members and friends. Nadine Amsler's investigation brings the domestic and devotional practices of women into sharp focus, uncovering a rich body of evidence that demonstrates how Chinese households functioned as sites of evangelization, religious conflict, and indigenization of Christianity.The resulting exploration of gendered realms in seventeenth-century China reveals networks of religious sociability and ritual communities among women as well as women's remarkable acts of private piety. Amsler's exhaustive archival research and attention to material culture reveals new insights about women's agency and domestic activities, illuminating areas of Chinese and Catholic history that have remained obscure, if not entirely invisible, for far too long.

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Introduction / Carol Lee Hamrin and Stacey Bieler -- Rong Hong: visionary for a new China / Stacey Bieler -- Tang Guo'an: pioneering China's rights recovery movement / Carol Lee Hamrin -- Shi Meiyu: an "army of women" in medicine / Connie Shemo -- Fan Zimei: between tradition and modernity / Fuk-Tsang Ying -- Ding Shujing: the YWCA pathway for China's "new women" / Elizabeth A. Littell-Lamb -- Mei Yiqi: university president in wartime / Stacey Bieler -- Lin Qiaozhi: the steady pulse of a quiet faith / Guowei Wright -- Wei Zhuomin: bridging national culture and world values / Peter Tze Ming Ng -- Wu Yifang: abundant life in training women for service / Mary Jo Waelchli -- Yan Yangchu: reformer with a heart for the village / Stacey Bieler.

Rong Hong (Yung Wing) 容閎 – Tang Guo'an (Tong Kwoh On) 唐國安 – Tang Jiechen (Tong Kai-son) 唐介臣 – Shi Meiyu (Mary Stone) 石美玉 – Fan Zimei (T.M. Fan, Fan Yi) 范子美 (范禕) – Ding Shujing (Ting Shu Ching) 丁淑靜 – Mei Yiqi (Yi Chi Mei) 梅貽綺 – Lin Qiaozhi (Lim Kah T'i) 林巧稚 – Wei Zhuomin (Francis Wei) 韋卓民 – Wu Yifang 吳貽芳 – Yan Yangchu (Y.C. James Yen) 晏陽初.

Preface / Noël Golvers & Willy Vande Walle -– The life and thought ot seventeenth century Chinese Christians / Paul Rule –- The formation of Chinese Diocesan religious congregations and Sisterhoods in the late Qing: some preliminary observations on an elusive phenomenon / R.G. Tiedemann –- Confucian practices and Christian principles in the Qing period: a Jesuit pastor, Francis Xavier Do Rosario He Tianzhang (1667-1736) / John W. Witek -– Chinese clergy and their European colleagues in Sichuan, 1702-1800 / Robert Entenmann –- Per Pedes Apostolorum: Bishop Johannes Müllener CM in Sichuan / Claudia von Collani –- The Chinese assistants of the Jesuit Procurators from China in Europe: the case of (Dominicus and ) Shen Fu-tsung / Noël Golvers -– The Chinese priests of the College of Naples and the promotion of the indigenous clergy (18-19th centuries) / Gianni Criveller –- Fr. Juan Feng Wenzi, Fuanese, out-and-out missionary in difficult times / Miguel Angel San Roman -– The contribution of the Chinese clergy to the growth of the Catholic Church among the Hakka people of Guangdong Province, 1845-1961 / Peter J. Barry -– On the authenticity and significance of the Pro-Catholic memorial by Censor Huang Entong in 1848 / Weiying Ku –- Samt'andjimba (1816-1900): a faithful servant, a guide and catechist of Vincentian and C.I.C.M. missionaries among the Mongols / Jeroom Heyndrickx -– The missionary as a weather-forecaster: meteorological observations in the Chinese mission stations of C.I.C.M. (1873-1935) / Dirk Van Overmeire -– Banditry in early Republican Gansu: the attacks of Bai Lang on the C.I.C.M. mission stations in Qingshui, Fuqing, Qinzhou, Huixian and Chengxian (1914) / Koen De Ridder –- The difficult growth of the South Shaanxi Vicariate at the end of the Qing Empire / Angelo S. Lazzarotto -– Father Jacobus Zhang Weiqi (1856-1935): an analysis of the De Veris et Falsis (邪正理考 1907) / Patrick Taveirne –- "We have been thrown into the Vicariate". Passionists in West Hunan: the struggle to bring to life a Chinese Voice of Faith, 1922-1926 / Robert E. Carbonneau –- Who inspired Luke Chen, the pioneer Chinese Christian artist? An analysis of old papers and new findings / Anthony Sui-Ki Lam -– "With the Chinese, for the Chinese" : the Hungarian Jesuit mission in Puzi, Taiwan / Péter Vámos -– Dong Guangqing and the Chinese Franciscans of Wuhan in the Fifties / Elisa Giunipero –- Father Didacus Yang Ti: a priest, historian and humanist (Province Anhui, County Jin Zhai 1914-1994) / Mark Fang Zhirong, S.J. –- The Chinese martyrs among the 120 martyrs of China, canonized on the 1st of October 2000 / Arnulf Camps, OFM.