Missions Étrangères de Paris (MEP) and China from the seventeenth century to the present /  edited by Ji Li.

Chiefly English with some French.

Papers from an international conference held July 26-27, 2017 at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction.  Placing the Societe des Missions Etrangeres de Paris (MEP) in Late Imperial and Modem China/  Ji Li --  Cultural Accommodation in the 17th and 18th Centuries.  Nobis Solis Sinensibus : When Jean Basset Identified Himself as Being Chinese to Promote the Term Shangdi /  François Barriquand --  Telling Biblical Stories in Chinese : A Case Study of Two Gospel Texts Initiated by Jean Basset /  Yanrong Chen --  The Formulation and Implementation of the Rules for Virgins and Their Influence on the Historical Process of the Chinese Church /  Zhijie Kang,  Qing Wu --  Intensification of Evangelization in the Early and Mid-19th Century.  Roman Catholic Presence in Guangdong at the Time of the Return of the MEP in the Mid-19th Century /  Jean-Paul Wiest --  La Mort d' Auguste Chapdelaine : Prétexte d'une Guerre, Occasion du Protectorat Religieux de la France en Chine /  Matthieu Masson --  Expansion of MEP Presence in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries.  Bishop Guillemin and the Creation of the French Catholic Mission's Real Estate Empire in South China /  Hongyan Xiang --  MEP Missionary Educational Endeavors in Modem Southwest China : A Case Study of the Latin School and Kanghua Elementary School in Kangding /  Aidong Zhao --  Le Proces en diffamation de Paul-Hubert Pemy : Un aperçu de la sinologie française dans la deuxième moitié du xixe siècle /  Lina Guo --  Conclusion.  Vignettes of Responses by MEP Missionaries to China, 1886-1936 /  Ernest P. Young --  Appendix.  The MEP in China : A Chronology from the 17th Century to the Present /  Jean-Pierre Charbonnier.

"The first scholarly work on the subject by leading scholars in the field, Missions Étrangères de Paris (MEP) and China examines the variety of ways in which MEP missionaries complemented and complicated Catholic Church and French engagement with Chinese society. Key players in the Church's overseas missions in the Far East, many MEP missionaries spent their entire lives working with ordinary Chinese. This volume explores the proactive engagement of MEP missionaries in Bible translation and cultural accommodation, their evangelization efforts in local communities, and the interaction between MEP representatives and various local groups. Each study in this book responds to one or more of the major themes in the history of Christianity in China that include conflicts, accommodations, indigenization, imperialism, and nationalism. Contributors are François Barriquand, Jean Charbonnier, Yanrong Chen, Lina Guo, Zhijie Kang, Ji Li, Matthieu Masson, Jean-Paul Wiest, Qing Wu, Hongyan Xiang, Ernest Young, and Aidong Zhao"-- Provided by publisher.

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