The culmination of Mungello’s forty years of study on Sino-Western history, this book provides a compelling and nuanced history of Catholicism in modern China.
The Mungellos were Italian-American children of Vesuvius. Moving to flee the threats of the Black Hand, their lives became no less turbulent. Throughout the... Læs mere
Telling the story of the introduction of Christianity to a provincial region in China where European missionaries shared the poverty and isolation of their Chinese flocks, this text shows the influence that the missionaries had in Shandong in matters of spirit and flesh.
This groundbreaking book offers the first full analysis of the long-neglected and controversial subject of female infanticide in China.... Læs mere
Embedded in the grander historical perspectives of wars and revolutions are individual love affairs. Twentieth-century revolutionary China brought together... Læs mere
This analysis of Joseph de Prémare’s long unpublished interpretations of ancient Chinese texts, which were suppressed as... Læs mere