China’s Last Jesuit

Charles J. McCarthy and the End of the Mission in Catholic Shanghai

Amanda C. R. Clark (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

122 Seiten

2017 | 1st ed. 2017
Springer Verlag, Singapore
978-981-10-5022-0 (ISBN)

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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.

Amanda C. R. Clark, PhD, is the Director of the Library and Associate Dean of Special Programs at Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington. She has co-authored with her father, Leland M. Roth, Understanding Architecture: Its Elements, History, and Meaning (2013) and American Architecture: A History (2016).

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.

Erscheinungsdatum	29.07.2017
Reihe/Serie	Christianity in Modern China
Zusatzinfo	20 Illustrations, black and white; XXV, 122 p. 20 illus.
Verlagsort	Singapore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
Schlagworte	Catholic clergy in China • Catholic missionaries in Maoist-era Shanghai • Charles McCarthy • China missions studies • Christianity and mid-twentieth century life in China • Christianity in China • Ideological and religious conflict in Communist China • Jesuit strategies of resistance in Communist China
ISBN-10	981-10-5022-8 / 9811050228
ISBN-13	978-981-10-5022-0 / 9789811050220
Zustand	Neuware