"This ethnographic study of a Chinese Catholic village reveals how the rapid penetration of transnational processes into the People's Republic of China during the post-Mao period has redefined and created new social and cultural structures in rural communities. In examining the resurfacing of a Catholic community in a Hakka village in Jiaoling county, Guandong, the book shows what it means to be part of a global and modern rural village. The Hakka are members of a Chinese diasporic group that in the past few decades have mobilized international campaigns to strengthen ethnic solidarity. After surviving campaigns of persecution in the Maoist era, Catholic villagers incorporated their village church into the state religious administrative structure while remaining faithful to Catholic traditions. They managed this transformation despite a multiplicity of national and transnational processes that might have deterred them."--Publisher description.

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The Virgin Mary and Catholic identities in Chinese history / Jeremy Clarke, SJ.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-263) and index.

Pt. 1. Images of Mary in China before 1842 -- 1.Chinese Christian art during the pre-modern period -- Katerina Ilioni of Yangzhou -- Madonna and Guanyin -- Marian images during the late Ming dynasty -- The Madonna in Master Cheng's Ink Garden -- Marian sodalities -- João da Rocha and the rosary -- pt. 2 The Chinese Catholic Church since 1842 -- 2. After the treaties -- French Marian devotions -- The effects of the Chinese Rites Controversy -- A sense of cultural superiority -- The influence of Marian events in Europe -- 3. Our Lady of Donglu -- Visual influences on the Donglu portrait -- Photographs of Cixi -- Liu Bizhen's painting -- 4. The rise and fall of the French protectorate Benedict XV and Maximum Illud -- Shanghai Plenary Council, 1924 -- Synodal Commission -- pt. 3 Images of Mary in the early twentieth century -- 5.The Furen art department -- The creation of the Catholic University of Peking -- The emergence of Chinese Christian art -- Celso Costantini and Luke Chen Yuandu -- 6. The Chinese dimension to the Furen Christian art -- Art as a catechetical tool -- Marian paintings -- Sheshan Shengmu.

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