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Making Catholicism Chinese examines a little-known chapter of Catholic life in China, when a coalition of foreign-born and Chinese Catholics strove to make the Church indigenously "Chinese." This book demonstrates how the indigenization movement, begun as a bid to render Catholicism a Chinese religion, came to support Chinese state-building instead.
In the first half of the 20th century, China transformed from a faltering and semi-colonized empire to a tentatively pluralistic republic to an increasingly militarized one-party state. Religious communities were driven to "modernize" for the sake of the new nation. In the case of Catholicism, the Belgian-born Lazarist Vincent Lebbe most publicly advocated for a Chinese Church, though the wider movement was guided by an array of Chinese clergy, newspaper magnates, scholar-politicians, artists, and army medics and combatants striving in various ways to be both faithful Catholics and patriotic citizens. Their indigenization project coincided with a national embrace of modernity as an ideal, leading Catholics to take up a variety of causes: promoting Chinese clergy as bishops in opposition to French dominance in the missions, experimenting with new forms of education and mass media, and ultimately joining the right-leaning Nationalist regime's war effort against Japan. Stephanie Wong thoroughly documents this history and definitively shows that the movement failed to establish the local Church as a distinct Chinese religion
Contents
PART 1. Setting the Stage
Chapter 1: Catholic Witness and Chinese Religion in Republican Era China
Chapter 2: Transnational, National, and Local: Catholicism in Semi-Colonized China
Part 2. Making the Church Chinese
Chapter 3: The Early Life of Vincent Lebbe
Chapter 4: A Church Like Any Other-Lobbying for a Chinese Episcopate
Chapter 5: Race and the Local Church: Theological Analysis
Part 3. The Church in Service of Nation
Chapter 6: The Later Life of Vincent Lebbe
Chapter 7: A Church for Chinese Culture: Shaping Aesthetics
Chapter 8: A Church for the Modern State: Defending the Nation
Chapter 9: Mission and Politics: Theological Analysis
Chapter 10: Conclusion: Indigenization Beyond Nationalization
