China’s Last Jesuit: Charles J. McCarthy and the End of the Mission in Catholic Shanghai
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. Thr...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
| Published: |
Singapore
Palgrave Macmillan
2017
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| In: | Year: 2017 |
| Series/Journal: | Christianity in Modern China
SpringerLink Bücher Springer eBook Collection Religion and Philosophy |
| RelBib Classification: | AA Study of religion |
| Further subjects: | B
Religion
History
B Religious Studies B China History B Religion B Religion And Politics |
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Presumably Free Access Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Parallel Edition: | Druckausg.: 978-981-10-5022-0 Printed edition: 9789811050220 |
| Summary: | 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 The Young Jesuit -- China During an Era of Change -- Return to Shanghai -- The Prison Years -- The Philippines, a Change in Course, and the Last Years |
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| ISBN: | 9811050236 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-5023-7 |