TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mariani,Paul Philip
TI  - Church militant: Bishop Kung and Catholic resistance in Communist Shanghai 
SN  - 9780674063174
AV  - BX1667.S53 M37 2011eb
U1  - 282/.5113209045 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Gong, Pinmei,
KW  - Catholic Church
KW  - China
KW  - Shanghai
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - fast
KW  - Communism and Christianity
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Catholic
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict
KW  - Religion, Jewish Studies, Theology
KW  - Systematic Theology and Philosophy of Religion
KW  - Theology, Jewish Studies and Religious Studies
KW  - Shanghai (China)
KW  - Church history
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The lines are drawn -- Targeted attack -- Arrests and expulsions -- Assault -- Final operations
N2  - By 1952 the Chinese Communist Party had suppressed all organized resistance to its regime and stood unopposed, or so it has been believed. Internal party documents--declassified just long enough for historian Paul Mariani to send copies out of China--disclose that one group deemed an enemy of the state held out after the others had fallen. A party report from Shanghai marked "top-secret" reveals a determined, often courageous resistance by the local Catholic Church. Drawing on centuries of experience in struggling with the Chinese authorities, the Church was proving a stubborn match for the party. Mariani tells the story of how Bishop (later Cardinal) Ignatius Kung Pinmei, the Jesuits, and the Catholic Youth resisted the regime's punishing assault on the Shanghai Catholic community and refused to renounce the pope and the Church in Rome. Acting clandestinely, mirroring tactics used by the previously underground CCP, Shanghai's Catholics persevered until 1955, when the party arrested Kung and 1,200 other leading Catholics. The imprisoned believers were later shocked to learn that the betrayal had come from within their own ranks. Though the CCP could not eradicate the Catholic Church in China, it succeeded in dividing it. Mariani's secret history traces the origins of a deep split in the Chinese Catholic community, where relations between the "Patriotic" and underground churches remain strained even today; Paul Mariani tells the story of how Bishop Kung, the Jesuits, and the Catholic Youth resisted the Chinese Communist regime and refused to renounce the Church in Rome. Mirroring tactics used by the previously underground CCP, Shanghai's Catholics persevered until 1955, when the party was betrayed from within their own ranks
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