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?

Au tribunal du repentir : la proscription du catholicisme en Chine (1724-1860) / Pierre-Emmanuel Roux.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [357]-388) and index.

Pt. 1.  La proscription du catholicisme au XVIIIe siècle : logiques et incohérences d'une répression --  Aux origines de la proscription --  Les Qing et les sectes --  La politique religieuse des Ming et des Qing --  Des lois pour réprimer les sectes --  Le catholicisme et ses détracteurs au XVIIe siècle --  Le mythe d'une Chine antichrétienne --  Les mesures antichrétiennes au XVIIe siècle --  L'énigmatique "édit de tolérance" de 1692 --  La mise en place de la proscription au début du XVIIIe siècle --  Kangxi, la querelle des rites et les missionnaires --  Yongzheng et l'"édit de proscription" de 1724 --  Une interdiction partiellement appliquée --  La répression aléatoire des missionnaires clandestins --  L'attitude de Qianlong face aux missionnaires clandestins --  Répression religieuse et pluralité des normes juridiques --  Les renvois à Canton et Macao --  La parenthèse antichrétienne de 1746-1748 et les premiers "cas constitués" --  L'affaire de Fuan --  L'affaire de Suzhou --  Les répercussions d'une campagne --  Les autorités locales face aux missionnaires --  L'introduction des missionnaires clandestins --  Des Européens invisibles --  Des autorités locales tolérantes --  La lente prise de conscience du rôle des convertis --  L'attitude de la cour face aux convertis --  La cour face aux Mandchous convertis --  La cour face aux Chinois convertis --  L'attitude des autorités locales face aux convertis --  Enquêtes et comparutions --  Tortures, apostasie et résolution des affaires --  Vénalité et extorsion --  La grande campagne antichrétienne de 1784-1785 --  Entre sévérité et mansuétude : le traitement réservé aux missionnaires --  Les chrétiens chinois, véritables cibles de la campagne --  Un nouveau précédent -- Pt. 2.  Le Code des Grands Qing et les nouvelles formes de la répression au XIXe siècle --  La fin du bouclier catholique pékinois (1801-1811) --  Pékin et le "bouclier catholique" au XVIIIe siècle --  Le statut particulier des missionnaires au service de la cour --  De quelques usages locaux du bouclier pékinois --  Les premiers signes de faiblesse --  Les vecteurs du changement --  Un État en crise et des réformes --  Les incidents de Corée, du Jiangxi et du Shaanxi --  Le bouclier pékinois ébréché --  La (re)découverte de réseaux chrétiens mandchous et chinois --  La crainte d'une hiérarchie catholique --  Une mission de Pékin à l'agonie --  Un contrôle renforcé sur les églises de la capitale (1801-1805) --  La fermeture progressive des églises (1811-1838) --  L'insertion du catholicisme dans le Code des Grands Qing (1811-1840) --  Le mémoire du censeur Gan Jiabin --  Pressions sichuanaises et priorités pékinoises --  Le catholicisme en tant que nouvelle secte chinoise --  L'élaboration de la loi antichrétienne --  Articles additionnels et répression des sectes --  Du mémoire de Gan Jiabin à la loi antichrétienne --  Les missionnaires, cibles désormais secondaires de la répression --  Le catholicisme, religion des missionnaires européens ? --  Quatre cas de peine capitale --  Les convertis, cibles prioritaires de la répression --  Le catholicisme, une secte de convertis chinois --  Des envois plus massifs en exil --  L'introduction du repentir dans le Code des Grands Qing --  La levée de la proscription et ses méandres (1844-1870) --  Sectes, révoltes et couverture catholique --  Les prémices au tournant du mi' siècle --  Une couverture catholique inattendue après 1724 --  La révision de la loi antichrétienne en 1840 --  Lever la proscription... sans l'abroger (1844-1856) --  La première guerre de l'opium et les négociations Keying-Lagrené (1844-1846) --  La question catholique entre les deux guerres (1846-1856) --  L'abrogation de la loi antichrétienne (1858-1870) --  De la seconde guerre de l'opium à la révision du Code des Grands Qing --  L'après-1870 -- Pt. 3.  À l'école du Japon : le piétinement des images chrétiennes (ebumi) dans la Chine des Qing --  Du Japon à la Chine (XVIIe siècle) --  Les origines japonaises de l'ebumi --  La proscription du catholicisme au Japon --  L'épreuve du piétinement des images chrétiennes --  La politique extérieure des Tokugawa et le catholicisme --  Le Japon et l'Asie orientale au XVIIe siècle --  Une proscription à exporter --  Les Chinois et l'ebumi --  La communauté chinoise de Nagasaki --  La chute des Ming --  L'annexion de Taiwan --  L'institutionnalisation d'une pratique --  Les débuts de l'ebumi en Chine --  Menace européenne et puissance japonaise --  L'intégration au discours antichrétien --  Les premières utilisations locales --  L'entrée de l'ebumi dans le Code des Grands Qing --  Vers la généralisation d'une pratique (1805-1817) --  Du piétinement à l'enjambement --  Un ebumi sinisé dans le Code des Grands Qing (1817-1821) --  Épreuves et persistance d'une pratique --  Une pratique à l'épreuve --  L'ebumi sinisé victime de son succès --  L'ebumi sinisé victime de ses limites --  La récidive en question --  Agonie et nostalgie d'une pratique --  La poursuite d'une pratique après les "traités inégaux" --  Discours antichrétien et nostalgie de l'ebumi --  Pamphlets, blasphèmes et magie --  L'ebumi en Asie orientale : entre modèle japonais et passerelle chinoise --  Les tribulations vietnamiennes de l'ebumi --  Les Coréens et l'ebumi.

"Mourir en martyr à l'issue de supplices chinois aussi cruels que raffinés : tel est le sort qu'on pourrait croire réservé à tous les missionnaires et leurs convertis dans une Chine impériale tardive où le catholicisme était officiellement proscrit. Pourtant, rien n'est moins sûr. En explorant l'interdiction de cette religion dans l'empire des Qing (1644-1911), ce livre fondé sur un vaste ensemble de sources asiatiques et européennes vient repenser les questions de la répression religieuse et de la rencontre jalonnée de tensions entre la Chine et l'Occident. Il dévoile ce faisant l'émergence d'un panasiatisme antichrétien au sein duquel "repentir" et "abjuration" s'avéraient en réalité les maîtres-mots des autorités. L'auteur offre ainsi une histoire inédite du catholicisme en Chine et chez ses proches voisins d'Asie orientale." -- Publisher, page four of cover.

Local access dig.pdf. [Roux-Au tribunal du repentir.pdf]

"This dissertation surveys the history of Christianity in China during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, with particular attention given to Chinese clergy and lay Christians. A variety of issues are discussed: the social organization of Christian communities, the networks among communities in different localities, internal tensions and conflicts, and Christian devotions in relation to the printing and circulation of Chinese Christian texts known as "scriptures".
By examining a group of unusual sources that have been mostly neglected by past scholars---the correspondence of Chinese Christians with ecclesiastical authorities in Rome, and other more familiar but little studied sources such as memorials and edicts regarding the investigation and interrogation of Chinese Christians and Western missionaries during the period of prohibition (1724-1844)---I intend to show how the imperial ban on Christianity in 1724, especially the expulsion of missionaries and the closing of all churches outside the imperial capital, may have affected Christian beliefs and practices at the local level.
The historical survey of the period from 1724 to 1780 and the two case studies in Beijing and Jiangnan from 1780 to 1860 will demonstrate that the repression of Christianity and periodic anti-Christian campaigns did, to some extent, help to shape the Christian community in China, making them into a whole body of people connected by religious identity, as distinguished from non-Christians. Yet this strong sense of community may also have been due to spiritual and social connections with Christian communities beyond China.
A second contribution of this dissertation study has to do with its exploring the nuances of Christian and other forms of popular devotions. Recent scholarship that sees Christianity primarily as a Chinese popular religion may have underestimated its distinctive "foreignness" and in part misunderstood what conversion meant in the context of Chinese religion and society. To some extent, Chinese converts were attracted to Christianity because it provided another choice for them beyond the existing religious traditions. A drastically different calendar characterized by distinctive feast days, fasting and abstinence, veneration of saints, along with other peculiar Christian beliefs and practices, have become what I define as "alternative devotions".--OCLC record.
See also sections on the Russian Orthodox Church in China and its contacts with the Jesuits, the Beitang, Nantang, and church properties during the early 19th century.

"Following the prohibition of missionary activity after 1724, China's Christians were effectively cut off from all foreign theological guidance. The ensuing isolation forced China's Christian communities to become self-reliant in perpetuating the basic principles of their faith. Left to their own devices, the missionary seed developed into a panoply of indigenous traditions, with Christian ancestry as the common denominator. Christianity thus underwent the same process of inculturation as previous religious traditions in China, such as Buddhism and Judaism. As the guardian of orthodox morality, the prosecuting state sought to exercise all-pervading control over popular thoughts and social functions. This study therefore presents the campaigns against Christians during this period as part and parcel of the campaign against 'heresy' and 'heretical' movements in general." -- Publisher description.

Defining the research parameters -- Aims and structure -- Our sources : a word of caution -- Geography -- Through inculturation to Chinese Christianity -- Accommodation and inculturation -- Japan's 'hidden Christians' -- The evolution of Chinese Christianity -- Christian missions and popular religious culture -- The philosophical background -- Christianity and the Manchurian elite -- Late imperial Christianity : popular cult or alien creed? -- Filial sons and a world of demons -- Ancestral tablets and auspicious inscriptions -- Interaction with other movements -- Peasant millenarianism and Christian theology -- Guilt, sin, universal harmony -- Healing and black magic -- Death and afterlife -- Materialism and superstition : attitudes towards religious discipline -- Matrimony and filial duty -- Inherited identity in Christian villages -- Itinerant Christians, private religious practice, and the interest of the state -- A protective father : official perceptions of Christianity and government action against sectarian movements -- The philosophical basis for anti-heresy campaigns -- The Confucian order and the importance of family ties -- State-sanctioned orthodoxy and 'heresy' -- Christianity as target : a chronology of state action -- The Yongzheng Edict of 1724 -- The Qianlong and Jiaqing reigns (1736-1821) -- The Adeodato Affair and the persecution of 1805 -- The persecution of 1811 and its aftermath -- Relaxation of anti-Christian state action during the Daoguang period -- The perplexed official : Christianity as heterodox mystery -- The official description of heresy -- 'Heretical' writings -- Christianity as internal menace -- Between social control and official paranoia -- Poverty and persecution -- The state versus Christian 'heresy' -- Christianity as alien intrusion -- Conclusion : Chinese Christianity and the fear of 'heresy'.

Catholics and society in eighteenth-century Sichuan / Robert E. Entenmann -- Catholic converts in Jiangxi province : conflict and accomodation, 1860-1900 / Alan R. Sweeten -- Rural religion and village organization in North China : the Catholic challenge in the late nineteenth century / Charles A. Litzinger -- Twilight of the Gods in the Chinese countryside : Christians, Confucians, and the modernizing state, 1861-1911 / Roger R. Thompson -- Christian missionary as Confucian intellectual : Gilbert Reid (1857-1927) and the reform movement in the late Qing / Tsou Mingteh -- Politics of evangelism at the end of the Qing : Nanchang, 1906 / Ernest P. Young -- From barbarians to sinners : collective conversion among plains Aborigines in Qing Taiwan, 1859-1895 / John R. Shepherd -- Christianity and the Hua Miao : writing and power / Norma Diamond -- Christianity and Hakka identity / Nicole Constable -- Christian virgins in eighteenth-century Sichuan / Robert E. Entenmann -- Chinese women and Protestant Christianity at the turn of the twentieth century / Kwok Pui-Lan -- "Cradle of female talent" : the McTyeire home and school for girls, 1892-1937 / Heidi A. Ross -- "Oasis in a heathen land" : St. Hilda's school for girls, Wuchang, 1928-1936 / Judith Liu and Donald P. Kelly -- Christianity, feminism, and communism : the life and times of Deng Yuzhi / Emily Honig -- Karl Gutzlaff's approach to indigenization : the Chinese union / Jessie G. Lutz and R. Ray Lutz -- Contextualizing Protestant publishing in China : the Wenshe, 1924-1928 / Peter Chen-Main Wang -- Growth of independent Christianity in China, 1900-1937 / Daniel H. Bays -- Toward independence : Christianity in China under the Japanese occupation, 1937-1945 / Timothy Brook -- Y.T. Wu : a Christian leader under communism / Gao Wangzhi -- Holy Spirit Taiwan : Pentecostal and charismatic Christianity in the Republic of China / Murray A. Rubinstein.

Publisher description ; Table of contents.

Journey to the East : the Jesuit mission to China, 1579-1724 / Liam Matthew Brockey.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [427]-477) and index.

Preface -- Note on translations and orthography -- Introduction -- PART I. CHARTING THE COURSE. An uneasy foothold -- In the shadow of greatness -- Witnesses to Armageddon -- The problem of success -- Between tolerance and the intolerable -- PART II. BUILDING THE CHURCH. In the Apostles' classroom -- Learning the language of birds -- The business of conversion -- A good method and order -- Brothers of passion and mercy -- Conclusion -- Bibliographic note -- Notes -- Illustration credits -- Index.

Dig.ed. local access only [Brockey-Journey to the East.pdf]

OCLC name authority file: Emiliano Palladini; 1733-1793; procuratore of Sacra Congreg. di Propag. Fide, Macao, p. ix (b. Dec. 30, 1733, Lauria; d. Aug. 18, 1793, Naples).
Casalini Libri CASA 9811042X

This suffering is my joy : the underground church in eighteenth-century China / D. E. Mungello.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

The underground church in China -- Matteo Ripa's attempt to establish a school for Chinese priests in China -- Founding of the Chinese college for priests in Naples -- Racial and cultural tensions between Chinese and European priests in China -- Emergence of the underground church -- European and Chinese forms of martyrdom.

"This book studies the Chinese Catholic church in a time of persecution, focusing in particular on the role of Chinese clergy and lay leaders in maintaining communities of clandestine Catholics. D. E. Mungello portrays a world in flux, where the certainties of the past were beginning to give way to new insights"--Provided by publisher (OCLC rec'd.).
Tracing the little-known history of the first underground Catholic church in China, noted scholar D. E. Mungello illuminates the period between the imperial expulsion of foreign Christian missionaries in 1724 and their return with European colonialism in the 1800s. Few realize that this was the first time in which Chinese, rather than Europeans, came to control their own church as Chinese clergy and lay leaders maintained communities of clandestine Catholics.

Mungello follows the church in a time of persecution, focusing in particular on the role of Chinese clergy and lay leaders in maintaining communities of clandestine Catholics during the eighteenth century. He highlights the parallels between the 1724 and 1951 expulsions of missionaries from China, the first driven by a Chinese imperial system and the second by a revolutionary Communist government. The two periods also reflected foreign bias against the Chinese priests and laity and questions about their spiritual depth and constancy. However, Mungello shows that the historical record of incarcerated and interrogated Christians reveals a spiritually inspired resistance to government oppression and a willingness to suffer, often to the point of martyrdom.