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  • Catholicism and Buddhism

    The Contrasting Lives and Teachings of Jesus and Buddha

    The recent tide of books comparing Christianity and Buddhism has centered mostly on similarities. The Dalai Lama, for example, provided his opinions on Christianity in a popular book, The Good Heart: A Buddhist Perspective on the Teachings of Jesus (1996). Other writers have equally sought to describe these two traditions as "two paths to the same place." Finding these approaches overly simplified ... Leer más

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  • Time Exposures

    Catholic Photography and the Evolution of Modern China

    Time Exposures explores how historical photographs created by and of Chinese Catholic communities illuminate the vicissitudes of China’s transition from empire to modern nation. Relying on an expansive worldwide network of Catholic photographic archives, this book examines largely unseen and unpublished images related to Catholicism in China. These images, made from the 1870s through the 1990s, ... Leer más

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  • Heaven in Conflict

    Franciscans and the Boxer Uprising in Shanxi

    One of the most violent episodes of China’s Boxer Uprising was the Taiyuan Massacre of 1900, in which rebels killed foreign missionaries and thousands of Chinese Christians. This first sustained scholarly account of the uprising to focus on Shanxi Province illuminates the religious and cultural beliefs on both sides of the conflict and shows how they came to clash.Although Franciscans were the ... Leer más

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  • A Chinese Jesuit Catechism

    Giulio Aleni’s Four Character Classic 四字經文

    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book is the first scholarly study of the famous Jesuit Chinese children’s primer, the Four Character Classic, written by Giulio Aleni (1582–1649) while living in Fujian, China. This book also includes masterful translations of both Wang Yinglin’s (1551–1602) hallowed Confucian Three Character Classic and Aleni’s Chinese catechism that was published during the Qing (1644–1911). Clark’s careful ... Leer más

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  • China’s Catholics in an Era of Transformation

    Observations of an “Outsider”

    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book features a collection of essays on China’s modern Catholic Church by a scholar of China-West intellectual and religious exchange. The essays and reflections were mostly written in China while the author was traveling by train, or staying in villages or large cities near to Roman Catholic cathedrals or other important historical sites during research trips to the country. It is clear that ... Leer más

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  • China Gothic

    The Bishop of Beijing and His Cathedral

    As China struggled to redefine itself at the turn of the twentieth century, nationalism, religion, and material culture intertwined in revealing ways. This phenomenon is evident in the twin biographies of North China’s leading Catholic bishop of the time, Alphonse Favier (1837–1905), and the Beitang cathedral, epicenter of the Roman Catholic mission in China through incarnations that began in 1701 ... Leer más

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  • A Voluntary Exile

    Chinese Christianity and Cultural Confluence since 1552

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    Western missionaries in China were challenged by something they could not have encountered in their native culture; most Westerners were Christian, and competitions in their own countries were principally denominational. Once they entered China they unwittingly became spiritual merchants who marketed Christianity as only one religion among the long-established purveyors of other religions, such as ... Leer más

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  • China's Saints

    Catholic Martyrdom During the Qing (1644–1911)

    Series series Studies in Christianity in East Asia
    While previous works on the history of Christianity in China have largely centered on the scientific and philosophical areas of Catholic missions in the Middle Kingdom, China's Saints recounts the history of Christian martyrdom, precipitated as it was by cultural antagonisms and misunderstanding. Anthony Clark shows that Christianity in China began and grew under similar circumstances to those ... Leer más

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  • The Great Encounter of China and the West, 1500–1800

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  • On Friendship

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