The counter-revolutionary and restorationist crimes of Christianity before and after Liberation

The counter-revolutionary and restorationist crimes of Christianity after Liberation, mid 1960s

The counter-revolutionary and restorationist crimes of Christianity after Liberation, mid 1960s

This theme consists of a two-part series detailing the counterrevolutionary activities and "crimes" perpetrated by the Roman Catholic Mission in China before and after 1949. Both series are incomplete: the first part ("The counter-revolutionary and restorationist crimes of Christianity before Liberation", 解放前天主教会反革命复辟活动的罪行) lacks the opening sheets; the second part ("The counter-revolutionary and restorationist crimes of Christianity after Liberation". 解放后天主教会反革命复辟活动的罪行) lacks at least one sheet, and possibly more at the end.

The counter-revolutionary and restorationist crimes of Christianity after Liberation, mid 1960s

The counter-revolutionary and restorationist crimes of Christianity after Liberation, mid 1960s

Due to this, it is impossible to indicate when the series were published, where, by whom, and for what specific purpose. The last evil deed discussed, at the end of part two, dates from July 1965, during the "Four Clean Ups" movement (四清运动). This suggests that the two series were published some time in the mid-1960s.

The names of the foreign missionaries have been identified as far as possibile.

Henrietta Harrison, The Missionary's Curse and Other Tales from a Chinese Catholic Village (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013)

Diana Lary, "Faith and War -- Eyewitnesses to the Japanese Invasion of China: Quebec's Jesuit Priests", Modern Asian Studies 39:4 (2005), 817-843

D.E. Mungello, The Catholic Invasion of China -- Remaking Chinese Christianity (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015)