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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“本書出版得到舊金山大學利瑪竇中西文化歷史研究所及東北師範大學資助特此致謝”
本書"人文社科新論"這一叢書中的一本. 它是以東北地區基督宗教傳播與中西文化關係為主題, 以"文本、地域與解釋的新視角-中國東北地區的基督宗教與中西文化交流(清初至民國) "這一學術會議所提交的論文為基礎, 所形成的一部論文集.--See conference papers.
Includes bibliographical references.

基督宗教中國東北地區傳播社會史研究的問題譜系（代序） / 趙軼峰 -- 近百年中國東北基督教研究綜述 / 高樂才, 邱廣軍 -- 乾隆十一年奉天府禁教案探微 / 閆瑞 -- 近代來華天主教士筆下的東北地名及行程見聞 : 以巴黎外方傳教士布魯尼埃和維爾諾特的信件為例 / 何岩巍 -- 早期來華基督新教傳教士對“滿州”的認識 / 陳才俊 -- 牛莊還堂案始末研究 / 張士尊 -- 十九世紀天主教在中國東北的傳播: 以法國巴黎外方傳教會檔案文獻為例 / 李紀 -- 清末民初基督教會在中國東北的醫療傳教活動 / 邱廣軍 -- 太平洋戰爭爆發後偽滿對基督教會的控制 / 徐炳三 -- 近代日本對東北教會學校的調查述論 / 陳靜 -- 東正教在額爾古納地區的傳播及其適應 / 唐戈 -- 東北與近代朝鮮的基督教傳入 / 舒健 -- 晚清蒙古教案研究以寧條梁案為中心 / 柳岳武 -- 《教務雜誌》中有關近代東北基督教的史料 / 陳玉芳 -- 文本、記憶、地域與解釋的新視角: 中國東北地區的基督宗教與中西文化交流（清初至民國）學術研討會綜述 / 閆瑞 -- 附錄: 中國東北地區基督教研究文獻要目 / 李小慶.

Abstracts in English: A tree of issues in the study of the social dissemination history of Christianity in the northeast of China / Zhao Yifeng -- A review of the past century studies of Christianity in the northeast of China / Gao Lecai & Qiu Guangjun -- A factual investigation and discussion of the ban on Christianity in Fengtian Prefecture [ 奉天府] in the eleventh year of Qianlong period / Yan Rui -- The names of places and knowledge about northeastern China in the mind of the China-visited missionaries: based upon some letters by two members of Missions étrangères de Paris / He Yanwei -- The knowledge about Manchuria of the early Christian missionaries in China / Chen Caijun -- A study of the Niuzhuang Church compensation case [牛庒还堂案] / Zhang Shizun -- Catholic churches in 19th century northeastern China: focusing on the archives of Missions étrangères de Paris / Li Ji -- Medical treatment connected missionary activities of Christian churches in the northeast of China during the transitional period from late Qing to Republic / Qiu Guangjun -- On the Japanese control of Christian churches after the breakout of the Pacific War / Xu Bingsan -- On the Japanese investigations of the missionary schools in northeastern China / Chen Jing -- The dissemination and adjustment of the Orthodox Eastern Churches in Argun River area / Tang Ge -- Northeastern China and the introduction of Christianity to Korea / Shu Jian -- Late Qing religious contradiction cases in Mongolian area: centered with the case of Ning-tiao-liang [寧條梁案] / Liu Yuewu -- On the materials about the northeastern part of China in The Culture Recorder and Missionary Journal 《教務雜誌》 / Chen Yufang -- A summarized report of the conference of “Manuscripts, Reminiscence, Locations and Interpretations: New Perspectives on Chinese-Western Cultural Exchange and Christianity in Northeast China (Early Qing to Republic) / Yan Rui -- Appendix: a brief bibliography for the study of Christianity in the northeast of China / Li Xiaoqing.