{"product_id":"this-suffering-is-my-joy-the-underground-church-in-eighteenth-century-china-9781538173978","title":"This Suffering Is My Joy: The Underground Church","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTracing 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMungello 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis new monograph by a leading historian of Chinese Christianity makes a major contribution to our understanding of the development of indigenous Catholicism in pre-Opium War China.\u003c\/p\u003e * Journal of Asian Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver decades, D. E. Mungello has made a name for himself as an accomplished author and meticulous historian. This new work is no exception, drawing on important archival collections and dealing with representations of European Catholic missionaries in late imperial China. Focusing on Matteo Ripa and the Christian Chinese community leaders in his entourage, Mungello addresses the historically difficult topic of indigenization within the Catholic clergy during the premodern era. His book thus portrays a world in flux, where the certainties of the past—both Confucian and European—were beginning to give way to new insights.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Lars Peter Laamann, SOAS University of London\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis erudite history provides essential new insight into how Chinese priests and lay catechists preserved the Catholic Church when it was forbidden, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. They lived a martyrdom overlooked until Mungello’s elegant portrait, based poignantly on diaries written in Latin to avoid detection by hostile local officials. This Suffering Is My Joy is a pearl of a book.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Victor Gaetan, author of God's Diplomats: Pope Francis, Vatican Diplomacy, and America's Armageddon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Mungello concludes his cavalcade across three centuries by telling us that ‘the history of the underground church of the eighteenth century is deeply relevant to understanding church-state relations in China today.’ This emblematic story, in fact, goes beyond the experience of one single church. The operative word here is ‘underground,’ a way for many local communities to go undetected, survive, and resist state authorities and dominant orthodoxies over the course of Chinese imperial and modern history. Even today, underground cultures within religion, the arts, literature, politics, and ethnic and sexual groups continue to offer spaces of expression that represent another China. It is a China to be celebrated, not hidden, policed, and shamed by power, as much yesterday as today.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Eugenio Menegon, Boston University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor’s Note \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 The Underground Church in China \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHistorical Background \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Auspicious Beginning of Catholicism in China \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Eighteenth-Century Crisis \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 Matteo Ripa’s Attempt to Establish a School for Chinese Priests in China \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFr. Matteo Ripa’s Spiritual Vision \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRipa’s Journey to China \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRipa at the Chinese Court \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRipa’s First School for Boys \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOpposition to Ripa’s School \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRipa Departs Beijing with Five Chinese \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Journey from Guangzhou (Canton) to London and Naples \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 Founding of the Chinese College for Priests in Naples \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFinancial Struggles in Founding the Chinese College \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe First Chinese College Graduates Return to China \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProblems with Chinese Students in Naples \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore Students Arrive from China \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLucio Wu as Ripa’s “Perpetual Cross to Bear” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLucio’s Second Flight and Imprisonment in Castel Sant’Angelo \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 Racial and Cultural Tensions between Chinese and European Priests \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFr. Filippo Huang in China \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFr. Huang’s Struggles as a Missionary in Northern Shanxi \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrowing Tensions between Chinese and European Priests \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnti-Christian Movement (“Great Persecution”) of 1784 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 Emergence of the Underground Church \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Underground Church in Japan \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Formation of Chinese Jesuit Priests \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChinese Priests and Catechists in Sichuan \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Formation of Chinese Underground Priests \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristian Virgins (Chaste Women) in Sichuan \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChinese Priests in Jiangnan \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 European and Chinese Forms of Martyrdom \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSacrifice and Martyrdom among Chinese Priests and Catechists \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndigenous Chinese Catholic Leadership \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMendicant Martyrdoms \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChinese Christian Martyrdoms \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041243955543,"sku":"9781538173978","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781538173978.jpg?v=1750949491","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/this-suffering-is-my-joy-the-underground-church-in-eighteenth-century-china-9781538173978","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}