China's Christian Martyrs / Paul Hattaway

Part 1. The first thousand years. 845 to 1599 : the earliest beginnings -- 1600s : a century of Catholic carnage -- 1700s : the bitter sweet century -- The great religious incident -- Slaughter in South China -- China's first Protestant martyrs -- Trouble in Guangxi and Guizhou -- The Tianjin Massacre -- Murderous monks in Tibet -- The Gutian Massacre -- Storm clouds on the horizon -- Part 2. The Boxer Rebellion of 1900. Prelude to the summer of slaughter -- Beijing -- The Tongzhou Massacre -- Hebei province -- The Zhujiahe massacre of 3,000 Catholics -- Little Anna Wang and her family -- The Yanshan slaughter -- The Baoding massacre -- The terrible escape -- Manchuria -- Bling Chang -- Zhejiang -- Inner Mongolia -- Shanxi -- The Taiyuan massacre -- Shouyang -- Trouble at the Great Wall -- Taigu -- Peter Ogren : the man who wouldn't die -- Letters of faith and courage -- Part 3. Bandits and Communists. 1901 to 1948 : martyrs of the bandit years -- Bloodbath in Xi'an -- Alphonso Argento : the last Boxer martyr -- Trouble among the tribes -- Caught in the crossfire -- 1925 to 1953 : the early years of Communism -- The father and son martyrs -- Sadhu Sundar Singh -- In the land of Mohammed -- John and Betty Stam -- Eric Liddel : Olympic champion and martyr -- Massacres in North China -- Thirty-three Trappist monks -- Bill Wallace -- Martyrs among the A-Hmao -- 1954 to 1982 : behind the iron curtain -- Zhu Yiming -- Molly O'Sullivan -- Watchman Nee -- Old tactics in New China -- Lilies among thorns -- House church martyrs of the 1990s -- Martyrs of the new millennium -- Into the future.

China's Christian Martyrs is the first attempt to document those who have been martyred for Christ in China from all the various Christian creeds. Since the Nestorians first introduced the gospel to China in the seventh century, an estimated 250,000 Christians have been martyred. They include some famous names, but the great majority have been ordianry men and women, boys and girls, who perished in countless places and by the most barbaric methods because fo their faith. - From back cover.

Contents: Oceania : Blessed John Mazzucconi. -- China : Blessed Alberic Crescitelli. -- China 1941 : Fr. Cesare Mencattini, Bishop Antonio Barosi, Fr. Mario Zanardi, Fr. Bruno Zanella, Fr. Girolamo Lazzaroni, The Martyrdom at Dingcunji, Fr. Carlo Osnaghi. -- Hong Kong : Fr. Emilio Teruzzi, Fr. Valeriano Fraccaro. -- Burma : Fr. Mario Vergara, Fr. Pietro Galastri, Fr. Alfredo Cremonesi, Fr. Pietro Manghisi, Fr. Eliodoro Farronate. -- Bangladesh : Fr. Angelo Maggioni. -- The Philippines : Fr. Tullio Favali, Fr. Salvatore Carzedda.

Diaries of the Chinese martyrs : stories of heroic Catholics living in Mao's China / edited by Gerolamo Fazzini ; preface by Bernardo Cervellera ; translated by Charlotte J. Fasi.

Includes bibliographical references.

With tens of millions killed and thousands of Catholics incarcerated because of rigged trials, China under Mao's dictatorship was the Asian version of the Nazi concentration camps and the Soviet Gulag. It's one of the darkest moments in Church history one that continues to be played out to this day through a historic abuse of power and a seemingly endless hunt for believers in Jesus Christ and His Church. Now the stories of these brave Catholic counter-revolutionaries are brought to you for the first time. These four autobiographical testimonies will leave you speechless and inspired. You'll witness the endless strength and hope these brave men displayed despite years of shocking psychological and physical abuse. Nothing short of miraculous, you'll hear their miraculous stories in the face of hunger, torture, interrogation, indoctrination, and the humiliation of the people's trials. There emerged from these souls the crystalline faith of those brave enough to accept their own Calvary for fidelity to Christ without ever becoming slaves of hatred.

Preface / Introduction / Bibliographical notes / Introduction: Cross of gold among the bars : the story of a detainee in cell no. 4 / Gaetano Pollio / Introduction: Preface: In Mao's prisons: the diary of bishop / Dominic Tang, S.J. /  Introduction: My life in the living hell of the Chinese Laogai: a diary of a Chinese Catholic / John Liao Shouji / Introduction: I fled from Red China Leon Chan / Acknowledgments.

Misery & virtue / Theresa Marie Moreau.

29 years in Laogai -- The handmaid -- A love story -- Tilanquiao.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-275) and index.

Zhonghua xundao xianlie zhuan 中華殉道先烈傳 / zhubian Liu Yusheng 主編劉宇聲 ; zhixing bianji Ye Weimin 執行编輯葉衛民.

Errata slip inserted.
Includes bibliographical references (page 366).
Rev. 3rd ed. 民國78 [1989].