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Record Nr.

UNINA9910255203203321

Autore

Clark Amanda C. R

Titolo

China's Last Jesuit : Charles J. McCarthy and the End of the Mission in Catholic Shanghai / / by Amanda C. R. Clark

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017

ISBN

9789811050237

9811050236

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (142 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Christianity in Modern China, , 2730-7883

Disciplina

266.251

Soggetti

Religion - History

China - History

Religion and politics

History of Religion

History of China

Politics and Religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.