Ecclesiastical Colony
China's Catholic Church and the French Religious Protectorate
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 25 April 2013
- ISBN 9780199924622
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages408 pages
- Size 236x165x33 mm
- Weight 703 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 11 b/w halftones 0
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Short description:
Ecclesiastical Colony reveals the powerful personalities, major debates, and complex series of events behind the turmoil that characterized the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century experience of the Catholic church in China.
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The French Religious Protectorate was an institutionalized and enduring policy of the French government, based on a claim by the French state to be guardian of all Catholics in China. The expansive nature of the Protectorate's claim across nationalities elicited opposition from official and ordinary Chinese, other foreign countries, and even the pope. Yet French authorities believed their Protectorate was essential to their political prominence in the country. This book examines the dynamics of the French policy, the supporting role played in it by ecclesiastical authority, and its function in embittering Sino-foreign relations.
In the 1910s, the dissidence of some missionaries and Chinese Catholics introduced turmoil inside the church itself. The rebels viewed the link between French power and the foreign-run church as prejudicial to the evangelistic project. The issue came into the open in 1916, when French authorities seized territory in the city of Tianjin on the grounds of protecting Catholics. In response, many Catholics joined in a campaign of patriotic protest, which became linked to a movement to end the subordination of the Chinese Catholic clergy to foreign missionaries and to appoint Chinese bishops.
With new leadership in the Vatican sympathetic to reforms, serious steps were taken from the late 1910s to establish a Chinese-led church, but foreign bishops, their missionary societies, and the French government fought back. During the 1930s, the effort to create an indigenous church stalled. It was less than halfway to realization when the Chinese Communist Party took power in 1949. Ecclesiastical Colony reveals the powerful personalities, major debates, and complex series of events behind the turmoil that characterized the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century experience of the Catholic church in China.
Ernest P. Youngâs long-awaited study is[...] an important contribution in English to the study of the Catholic Church in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century China. In addition to a thoroughly researched history of the controversial French Religious Protectorate, it also provides an insightful discussion of important Chinese contextual considerations [...] In his carefully constructed and eminently accessible presentations, Young helpfully explains Catholic terminology
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Specialized Terms and Acronyms
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Emergence of the French Religious Protectorate
Chapter 2. Church and Protectorate Under the Treaties
Chapter 3. Defending the Protectorate in the Late Nineteenth Century
Chapter 4. Collecting Indemnities and Enduring Criticism
Chapter 5. The Complexities of Jiao'an in the Early Twentieth Century: Sichuan and Jiangxi
Chapter 6. Reform Agendas for the Missions
Chapter 7. Dissidence and Catholic Patriotism in Tianjin
Chapter 8. Petitioning Rome
Chapter 9. The Vatican Engages and Catholics in China Respond
Chapter 10. The Papacy's New China Policy
Chapter 11. Falling Short
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
