Missions Etrangeres de Paris (MEP) and China from the Seventeenth Century to the Present
The first scholarly work on the subject by leading scholars in the field, Missions Étrangères de Paris (MEP) and China examines the variety of ways in which MEP missionaries complemented and complicated Catholic Church and French engagement with Chinese society. Key players in the Church’s overseas missions in the Far East, many MEP missionaries spent their entire lives working with ordinary Chinese. This volume explores the proactive engagement of MEP missionaries in Bible translation and cultural accommodation, their evangelization efforts in local communities, and the interaction between MEP representatives and various local groups. Each study in this book responds to one or more of the major themes in the history of Christianity in China that include conflicts, accommodations, indigenization, imperialism, and nationalism. Contributors are François Barriquand, Jean Charbonnier, Yanrong Chen, Lina Guo, Zhijie Kang, Ji Li, Matthieu Masson, Jean-Paul Wiest, Qing Wu, Hongyan Xiang, Ernest Young, and Aidong Zhao.
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Missions Etrangeres de Paris (MEP) and China from the Seventeenth Century to the Present
The first scholarly work on the subject by leading scholars in the field, Missions Étrangères de Paris (MEP) and China examines the variety of ways in which MEP missionaries complemented and complicated Catholic Church and French engagement with Chinese society. Key players in the Church’s overseas missions in the Far East, many MEP missionaries spent their entire lives working with ordinary Chinese. This volume explores the proactive engagement of MEP missionaries in Bible translation and cultural accommodation, their evangelization efforts in local communities, and the interaction between MEP representatives and various local groups. Each study in this book responds to one or more of the major themes in the history of Christianity in China that include conflicts, accommodations, indigenization, imperialism, and nationalism. Contributors are François Barriquand, Jean Charbonnier, Yanrong Chen, Lina Guo, Zhijie Kang, Ji Li, Matthieu Masson, Jean-Paul Wiest, Qing Wu, Hongyan Xiang, Ernest Young, and Aidong Zhao.
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Missions Etrangeres de Paris (MEP) and China from the Seventeenth Century to the Present

Missions Etrangeres de Paris (MEP) and China from the Seventeenth Century to the Present

Missions Etrangeres de Paris (MEP) and China from the Seventeenth Century to the Present

Missions Etrangeres de Paris (MEP) and China from the Seventeenth Century to the Present

Overview

The first scholarly work on the subject by leading scholars in the field, Missions Étrangères de Paris (MEP) and China examines the variety of ways in which MEP missionaries complemented and complicated Catholic Church and French engagement with Chinese society. Key players in the Church’s overseas missions in the Far East, many MEP missionaries spent their entire lives working with ordinary Chinese. This volume explores the proactive engagement of MEP missionaries in Bible translation and cultural accommodation, their evangelization efforts in local communities, and the interaction between MEP representatives and various local groups. Each study in this book responds to one or more of the major themes in the history of Christianity in China that include conflicts, accommodations, indigenization, imperialism, and nationalism. Contributors are François Barriquand, Jean Charbonnier, Yanrong Chen, Lina Guo, Zhijie Kang, Ji Li, Matthieu Masson, Jean-Paul Wiest, Qing Wu, Hongyan Xiang, Ernest Young, and Aidong Zhao.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9789004472105
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers, Inc.
Publication date: 12/16/2021
Series: Studies in the History of Christianity in East Asia Series , #6
Pages: 292
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Ji Li, is Assistant Professor of History at The University of Hong Kong. She has published monographs and articles in English and Chinese, including God’s Little Daughters: Catholic Women in Nineteenth-Century Manchuria (Washington, 2015).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures and Tables

Introduction: Placing the Société des Missions Étrangères de Paris (MEP) in Late Imperial and Modern China
 Ji Li



1 Nobis Solis Sinensibus: When Jean Basset Identified Himself as Chinese in Order to Promote the Term Shangdi
 François Barriquand

2 Telling Biblical Stories in Chinese: A Case Study of Two Gospel Texts
 Yanrong Chen

3 The Formulation and Implementation of Rules for Virgins and its Influence on the Historical Process of Chinese Church
 Zhijie Kang and Qing Wu



4 Roman Catholic Presence in Guangdong at the Time of the Return of the MEP in the Mid-19th Century
 Jean-Paul Wiest

5 La Mort d’ Auguste Chapdelaine : Prétexte d’ une Guerre, Occasion du Protectorat Religieux de la France en Chine
 Matthieu Masson



6 Bishop Guillemin and the Creation of MEP’s Real Estate Empire in South China
 Hongyan Xiang

7 MEP Missionary Educational Endeavors in Modern Southwest China: A Case Study of Latin School and Kanghua Elementary School in Kangding
 Aidong Zhao

8 Le Procès en diffamation de Paul-Hubert Perny: Un aperçu de la sinologie française dans la deuxième moitié du XIXe siècle
 Lina Guo

Conclusion: Vignettes of Responses by MEP Missionaries to China, 1886–1936
 Ernest P. Young

Appendix: MEP in China: A Chronology from the 17th Century to the Present
 Jean-Pierre Charbonnier
Index
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