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Informationen zum Autor D. E. Mungello has been a leading scholar in Sino-Western history. From 1979 to 2016 he founded and edited a journal dedicated to the post-Mao Zedong era revival of contacts between Chinese and foreign historians. His books include Leibniz and Confucianism , Curious Land , The Great Encounter of China and the West, 1500-1800 , The Spirit and the Flesh in Shandong, 1650-1785 , Drowning Girls in China: Female Infanticide since 1650 , Western Queers in China: Flight to the Land of Oz, The Catholic Invasion of China , This Suffering is my Joy: The Underground Church in Eighteenth-Century China and Interracial Lovers in Revolutionary China . He is the Professor of History Emeritus at Baylor University. Klappentext Tracing the little-known history of the first underground Catholic church in China, Mungello illuminates the century between the imperial expulsion of missionaries in 1724 and their return with European colonialism in the 1800s. This time of persecution offered an opportunity for the Chinese, rather than Europeans, to control their own church. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Author's Note 1 The Underground Church in China Historical Background The Auspicious Beginning of Catholicism in China The Eighteenth-Century Crisis 2 Matteo Ripa's Attempt to Establish a School for Chinese Priests in China Fr. Matteo Ripa's Spiritual Vision Ripa's Journey to China Ripa at the Chinese Court Ripa's First School for Boys Opposition to Ripa's School Ripa Departs Beijing with Five Chinese The Journey from Guangzhou (Canton) to London and Naples 3 Founding of the Chinese College for Priests in Naples Financial Struggles in Founding the Chinese College The First Chinese College Graduates Return to China Problems with Chinese Students in Naples More Students Arrive from China Lucio Wu as Ripa's "Perpetual Cross to Bear" Lucio's Second Flight and Imprisonment in Castel Sant'Angelo 4 Racial and Cultural Tensions between Chinese and European Priests Fr. Filippo Huang in China Fr. Huang's Struggles as a Missionary in N ...
