Jesus on Chinese Soil -- The Chinese Sisters Until 1929 -- The Turbulent 1930s -- The War Years 1940s -- A New Chapter in Hong Kong's History -- The 1950s -- The 1960s -- A Decade of Revolutions -- 1971-1973 and Beyond.

This book traces the origins of the Chinese Sisters of the Precious Blood in Hong Kong and their history up to the early 1970s, and contributes to the neglected area of Chinese Catholic women in the history of the Chinese Catholic Church. It studies the growth of an indigenous community of Chinese sisters, who acquired a formal status in the local and universal Catholic Church, and the challenge of identifying Chinese Catholic women in studies dealing with the Chinese Church in the first half of the 20th century, as these women remained 'faceless' and 'nameless' in contrast to their Catholic male counterparts of the period. Emphasizing the intertwining histories of the Hong Kong Church, the churches in China, and the Roman Catholic Church, it demonstrates how the history of the Precious Blood Congregation throws light on the formation and development of indigenous groups of sisters in contemporary China.

Local access dig.pdf. [Chu-Chinese Sisters.pdf]

Preface - Introduction - The 1920s, People and Weather - The 1930s, Schools, Visitors, and Visits - Advent of Japanese, 1938-1941 - Japanese Occupation and Internment, 1941-1942 - In and Out of the Camp, Releases, and Repatriation, 1941-1942 - Postwar Years, the 1950s, the Early 1960s, and Refugees - Resettlement Areas in the 1950s and the 1960s - Conclusion