China’s Last Jesuit, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017 Charles J. McCarthy and the End of the Mission in Catholic Shanghai Christianity in Modern China Series
Auteur : Clark Amanda C. R.
This pivot chronicles the life of Charles McCarthy, a San Francisco native and Jesuit missionary to China, and tells the unique and compelling story of a young man who experienced confinement under the Japanese occupation, followed shortly by imprisonment by the Chinese Communists in the 1950?s. Through a study of McCarthy?s unique epistolary exchanges, it considers the intellectual life of a Catholic missionary, his ongoing fight for equal citizenship rights, illustrating how American Catholic missionaries in Maoist-era Shanghai navigated the social tensions of a nation-state in turbulent transition. This narrative explores Jesuit strategies of resistance and persistence in an era of oppression, and ideological and religious conflict as those sent to fill the missionary spots left by European men lost in the World Wars were caught up in China?s mid-century political upheavals.
Date de parution : 12-2018
Ouvrage de 122 p.
14.8x21 cm
Date de parution : 07-2017
Ouvrage de 122 p.
14.8x21 cm
Thèmes de China’s Last Jesuit :
Mots-clés :
Charles McCarthy; China missions studies; Christianity and mid-twentieth century life in China; Christianity in China; Catholic missionaries in Maoist-era Shanghai; Jesuit strategies of resistance in Communist China; Ideological and religious conflict in Communist China; Catholic clergy in China