Chronicle of the Catholic Church in China

Author: Gu Weimin
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Publish Date: 2003-04-01
Features: The author objectively describes the tortuous development of the Catholic Church in China in a chronological form. The book is divided into three periods in terms of time: the Tang-Yuan period, the Ming-Qing period, and the modern period, mainly based on the three historical processes of the Catholic Church entering China. As a council member of the Chinese Society of Religious Studies, the author has lectured abroad many times and has collected a wealth of historical documents related to Catholicism and China. He has sorted them out and attempted to compile this book. The historical figures from both China and the West mentioned in the book are briefly introduced in terms of their biographies, official positions, and writings. The original documents collected include imperial edicts from Chinese emperors, prefaces and postfaces written by officials who followed the Catholic faith for missionaries, important documents on protecting and opposing the Catholic Church, as well as related travelogues and poems. Therefore, this book is both a profound and practical research work and a reference book.