A call to mission : the Jesuits in China / David Strong SJ.

Title varies: A Call to mission--a history of the Jesuits in China 1842-1954

Volume 1, title page gives dates 1842-1955; volume 2 title page gives dates 1827-1957.
Volume 2 cover shows part title as: The wider European and American adventure.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Volume 1. The French romance -- volume 2. The wider European adventure.

A vision betrayed : the Jesuits in Japan and China, 1542-1742 / Andrew C. Ross.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Japan and China before the expansion of the Iberian sea-borne empires -- Francis Xavier and the mission to Japan -- Alessandro Valignano -- Christian century in Japan, 1549-1650 to the death of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, 1598 -- Christian century in Japan, 1549-1650 to the coming of the "closed land" -- Matteo Ricci and the road to Beijing -- Christian priest and Confucian intellectual -- China mission under Schall and Verbiest -- the Pope, the Bourbon Kings and the Kangxi Emperor -- Whence came the vision?

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The Jesuit missions to China and Peru, 1570-1610 : expectations and appraisals of expansionism / Ana Carolina Hosne.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [174]-187) and index.

Synopsis:
The Jesuit Missions to China and Peru were, in their different ways, astonishingly successful, with Catholicism establishing deep roots in Peru, and with the Ming emperors in China giving Jesuits a privileged position at the imperial court, from which position, later, they almost brought about the conversion of the Chinese emperor, and thereby potentially all of China, to Roman Catholic Christianity. This book explores how leading Jesuits, Ricci (1552-1610) in China and Acosta (1540-1600) in Peru, adapted Catholic teaching to fit the prevailing religious outlook and practices in the two countries in order to make Catholicism more understandable and palatable to the local population. It examines in detail Catholic theology, the Jesuit approach to mission, and the concepts which underpinned adaptation, showing in the detail of catechisms produced in each of the territories how adaptation worked out in practice. The book concludes by outlining how the relationship between Catholicism and local culture in the two countries developed., The rulers of the overseas empires summoned the Society of Jesus to evangelize their new subjects in the 'New World' which Spain and Portugal shared; this book is about how two different missions, in China and Peru, evolved in the early modern world. From a European perspective, this book is about the way Christianity expanded in the early modern period, craving universalism. In China, Matteo Ricci was so impressed by the influence that the scholar-officials were able to exert on the Ming Emperor himself that he likened them to the philosopher-kings of Plato's Republic. The Jesuits in China were in the hands of the scholar-officials, with the Emperor at the apex, who had the power to decide whether they could stay or not. Meanwhile, in Peru, the Society of Jesus was required to impose Tridentine Catholicism by Philip II, independently of Rome, a task that entailed compliance with the colonial authorities' demands. This book explores how leading Jesuits, Matteo Ricci (1552-1610) in China and José de Acosta (1540-1600) in Peru, envisioned mission projects and reflected them on the catechisms they both composed, with a remarkable power of endurance. It offers a reflection on how the Jesuits conceived and assessed these mission spaces, in which their keen political acumen and a certain taste for power unfolded, playing key roles in envisioning new doctrinal directions and reflecting them in their doctrinal texts.

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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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I. Introduction
II. Historical Background -- The Pre-Suppression Period -- Sodalities Become the Cornerstone -- Early Images of Mary -- The Nineteenth Century.
III. Pilgrimages, Shrines, and Paintings -- Marian Devotion at Donglu --The Donglu Portrait of Mary -- The Tushanwan Orphanage.
IV. From Donglu to Our Lady of China -- The Shanghai Plenary Council of 1924 --Consecrating China to Mary --A New Image for a New Title.
V. Conclusion.

Setting off from Macau :  essays on Jesuit history during the Ming and Qing dynasties / by Tang Kaijian.

Translated from the Chinese.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [283]-298) and index.

Origins and development of Catholicism in Macau during the late Ming and early Qing dynasties -- Macau and the spread of Catholicism in mainland China during the late Ming and early Qing dynasties -- Japanese Christians in Macau and the Guangdong government's response -- The rise and fall of Catholicism in Hainan during the late Ming and early Qing dynasties -- Funding Jesuit missionary work in China during the late Ming and early Qing dynasties -- Catholic art in Macau and mainland China during the late Ming and early Qing dynasties -- Catholic music in Macau and mainland China during the late Ming and early Qing dynasties -- Jesuit clock diplomacy and the use of western clocks during the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties.

It is impossible to understand the early history of the Society of Jesus and the Catholic Church in China without understanding the preeminent role played by the island of Macau in the Jesuit missionary endeavor; indeed, it can even be said that Catholicism would not exist in China if there was no Macau. This book seeks to restore Macau to its proper place in the history of Catholicism and the Jesuit missions in China during the Ming and Qing dynasties by offering a unique insight into subjects ranging from the origins of Jesuit missionary work on the island to the history of Jesuit education and Catholic art and music on the Chinese mainland.-- Provided by Publisher.

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The Society of Jesus and China : a historical-theological essay / Edward J. Malatesta.
Cover title also in Chinese: Yesuhui zai Zhongguo 耶穌會在中國.
Published on behalf of Jesuit International Ministries, Jesuit Conference, 1997.
Special edition of Discovery: Jesuit international ministries, no. 7, June 1997.

Contents: The first period, 1552-1722--The second period, 1723-1775--The third period, 1842-1949--Zhaoqing, Shanghai, Wuhu, Anqing, Bengbu, Xuzhou, Xianxian, Daming, Jingxian, American Jesuits in China, Hong Kong, Macau--The fourth period, 1950-1976--The fifth period, 1976-1996--Prospects for the future--Criteria for evaluating the Jesuit side of the China-Jesuit relationship--Chinese Jesuits in the mainland today. Responses: Ralph R. Covell, Beiling Tao, Jean-Paul Wiest, John W. Witek, S.J.

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