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.

God is red : the secret story of how Christianity survived and flourished in Communist China / Liao Yiwu ; translator, Wenguang Huang.

The trip to Dali. The cemetery -- The old nun -- The Tibetan -- The elder (I) -- The Episcopalian -- The cancer patient -- The fellowship -- The Yi and Miao villages. The doctor -- The martyr -- The elder (II) -- The Yi minister -- The feast -- Beijing and Chengdu. The secret visit -- The underground minister -- The poet and the priest -- The blind musician -- The orphanage -- The new convert.

When journalist Liao Yiwu first stumbled upon a vibrant Christian community in the officially secular China, he knew little about Christianity. In fact, he'd been taught that religion was evil, and that those who believed in it were deluded, cultists, or imperialist spies. But as a writer whose work has been banned in China and has even landed him in jail, Liao felt a kinship with Chinese Christians in their unwavering commitment to the freedom of expression and to finding meaning in a tumultuous society. Unwilling to let his nation lose memory of its past or deny its present, Liao set out to document the untold stories of brave believers whose totalitarian government could not break their faith in God, including: The over-100-year-old nun who persevered in spite of beatings, famine, and decades of physical labor, and still fights for the rightful return of church land seized by the government; The surgeon who gave up a lucrative Communist hospital administrator position to treat villagers for free in the remote, mountainous regions of southwestern China; The Protestant minister, now memorialized in London's Westminster Abbey, who was executed during the Cultural Revolution as "an incorrigible counterrevolutionary." This ultimately triumphant tale of a vibrant church thriving against all odds serves as both a powerful conversation about politics and spirituality and a moving tribute to China's valiant shepherds of faith, who prove that a totalitarian government cannot control what is in people's hearts.

"L'auteur qui appartient à l'Institut pontifical des Missions Etrangères de Milan, arrivé en Chine en 1938, il en repartira en 1946 après avoir été fait prisonnier par les communistes chinois en 1945. Ce livre est le récit de ses deux années de captivité. L'auteur donne aussi son avis sur la situation de la Chine dans les zones controlées par les communistes à cette époque."--OCLC note.

The laughter and the weeping : an old China hand remembers / Luke O'Reilly.