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The Spirit and the Flesh of Shandong, 1650-1785

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The Spirit and the Flesh in Shandong tells the deeply human story of conflicting aspirations and passions in the introduction of Christianity to a provincial region in China. The story unfolds through vivid descriptions of how Chinese converts and their European priests were involved in close collaboration, an underground church, imprisonment, apostasy, martyrdom, peasant secret society affiliations, self-flagellation, and sexual seduction.

List of contents










Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Introduction
Chapter 3 Prelude: Wondrous Signs
Chapter 4 The Trials and Endeavors of Father Antonio
Chapter 5 The Attempt to Blend Confucianism and Christianity
Chapter 6 The Return to Shandong after the Anti-Christian Persecution of 1664-1669
Chapter 7 To Kiss the Image of the Crucified Jesus and to Feel the Whip Upon One's Flesh
Chapter 8 Christianity and Chinese Heterodox Sects, 1701-34
Chapter 9 Shepards, Wolves, and Martyrs in the Underground Church
Chapter 10 Postlude: Requiscat in pace
Chapter 11 Chinese-Character Glossary


About the author

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.

Summary

Telling the story of the introduction of Christianity to a provincial region in China where European missionaries shared the poverty and isolation of their Chinese flocks, this text shows the influence that the missionaries had in Shandong in matters of spirit and flesh.

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