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China's Last Jesuit: Charles J. McCarthy and the End of the Mission in Catholic Shanghai

China's Last Jesuit: Charles J. McCarthy and the End of the Mission in Catholic Shanghai

Clark, Amanda C. R.

Hardcover

Series: Christianity in Modern China

Religion General Chinese History

ISBN10: 9811050228
ISBN13: 9789811050220
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Jul 21 2017
Pages: 122
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.38 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

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.

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