This course examines the development of Christianity in China from the Tang dynasty (618-907) to the present time, with emphasis on the historical encounters between Christianity and Confucianism, and between Christianity and Communism.

10 Jan INTRODUCTION The Historiography of Chinese-Christian Encounters: Resources, Perspectives, Methodologies and Trends

17 Jan TANG ERA Luminous Monks (白衣景士) along the Silk Road: the Monastic Missions to China

24 Jan YUAN ERA Nestorian Crosses? Yelikewen (也里可温) and Mendicant Friars among the Mongols

31 Jan LATE MING–EARLY QING ERA Harmonious Disagreement? The Friendship of European Missionaries and Chinese Literati (士大夫)

07 Feb LATE MING–EARLY QING ERA Two-headed Snakes 两头蛇? The First Generation of Chinese Christians

14 Feb EARLY QING ERA The Interweaving of Rituals and the Chinese Rites Controversy: The Qing Proscription of Christianity (禁教)

21 Feb NO LECTURE: Lunar New Year Vacation

28 Feb LATE QING ERA Reformists, Revolutionaries, and Millenarians: The Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace (太平天国) and Militia United in Righteousness (义和团)

07 Mar LATE QING–REPUBLICAN ERA Pressure from the West: The Golden Age of Christian Missions and the Multiple Crises of Chinese Christianity

14 Mar Field Trip to To Fung Shan 道风山, Shatin

21 Mar PRC ERA Seeking the Common Ground (求同存异): the New China and Christianity’s Ordeal

28 Mar Narratives from the Chinese Hinterland and Diaspora

04 Apr Field Trip to Holy Spirit Study Centre 圣神研究中心, Aberdeen (Reading Week)

11 Apr Negotiating Cultural and Religious Gaps: Scientific, Literary and Biblical Translation

18 Apr CONCLUSION Christian Identities in China: The Indigenization of Christian Arts 

Attendance & Participation 10%

Tutorial 30%

Final Term Paper 60%

• In English max. 3,000 words
• In Chinese max. 5,000 characters

Please submit all your assignments to the VeriGuide system

TBA

Basic reference

• Nicolas Standaert, ed. Handbook of Christianity in China. Volume One: 635-1800. Leiden: Brill, 2001.
• Jean Charbonnier (M.N.L. Couve de Murville, transl.), Christians in China: A.D. 600 to 2000, Fort Collins (Colorado, USA): Ignatius Press, 2007;（法）沙百里著，耿昇译，《中国基督徒史》臺北市怀仁丛书、光启文化事业，2005年; Histoire des chrétiens de Chine. Paris: Desclée, 1992.
• 李金强主编 Lee Kam Keung and others, eds.,《自西徂东：基督教来华二百年论集》 [East Meets West: Essays Celebrating the Bicentennial of Protestant Christianity in China] ，基督教文艺出版社 Chinese Christian Literature Council, 2009年。
• 陶飞亚，杨卫华，《基督教与中国社会研究入门》復旦大学出版社, 2009年.
• Kenneth Scott Latourette, A History of Christian Missions in China. New York & London: The MacMillan Company, 1929; Lai Delie 赖德烈,《Jidujiao zai Hua chuanjiaoshi 基督教在华传教史》(Transl. Lei Libo 雷立柏 and others) 香港道风译丛 15, 2009年.
• R.G. Tiedemann, ed. Handbook of Christianity in China. Volume Two: 1800-Present. Leiden: Brill, 2010.
• Daniel H. Bays, A New History of Christianity in China. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.

Selective bibliography

• Jacques Gernet, Chine et christianisme: action et réaction. Paris: Gallimard, 1982; Chine et christianisme: La première confrontation. Paris: Gallimard, 1991; Janet Lloyd, transl., China and the Christian Impact: A Conflict of Cultures. Cambridge University Press, 1985; (法）谢和耐著，耿昇译，《中国和基督教：中国和欧洲文化之比较》上海:古籍出版社，1991年.
• Nicolas Standaert, Yang Tingyun. Confucian and Christian in Late Ming China. (Sinica Leidensia, XIX) Leiden: Brill, 1988;（比）锺鸣旦著，香港圣神研究中心译，《杨廷筠：明末天主教儒者》北京:社会科学文献出版社，2002年。此书乃1987年香港初版的修订本。
• Philip L. Wickeri, Seeking the Common Ground: Protestant Christianity, the Three-Self Movement, and China’s United Front. New York: Orbis Books, 1988 (2011).
• Daniel H. Bays, ed. Christianity in China: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996.
• Paul A. Cohen, History in Three Keys: The Boxers as Event, Experience, and Myth. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997; （美）柯文著，杜继东译，《历史三调：作为事件、经历和神话的义和团》江苏人民出版社，2000年; 北京: 社会科学文献出版社,2015年.
• Anthony S.K. Lam, Transl. by Peter Barry & Norman Walling, The Catholic Church in Present-Day China: Through Darkness and Light, Hong Kong: Ferdinand Verbiest Foundation & The Holy Spirit Study Centre, 1997; 林瑞琪，《中国天主教当代历史反省：谁主沉浮》香港:圣神研究中心，1994、1995、1999年。
• Richard Madsen, China’s Catholics: Tragedy and Hope in an Emerging Civil Society. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.
• 晏可佳，《中国天主教简史》北京:宗教文化出版社，2001年. Yan Kejia (Transl. Chen Shujie 陈书杰), Catholic Church in China. China Intercontinental Press, 2004.
• N. Standaert, Methodology in View of Contact Between Cultures: The China Case in the 17th Century. CSRCS Occasional Paper No. 11, Hong Kong, 2002.
• Cindy Yik-yi Chu, The Maryknoll Sisters in Hong Kong, 1921-1969: In Love With the Chinese. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
• Agostino Giovagnoli & Elisa Giunipero, eds. The Catholic Church and the Chinese World: Between Colonialism and Evangelization (1840-1911). Roma: Urbaniana University Press, 2005.
• 黄一农，《两头蛇：明末清初的第一代天主教徒》台北: 国立清华大学，2005年。
• Roman Malek, ed., Jingjiao: The Church of the East in China and Central Asia. Nettetal, Germany, Institut Monumenta Serica, 2006.
• Robert Bickers & R.G. Tiedemann, eds., The Boxers, China, and the World, Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007.
• David E. Mungello, The Great Encounter of China and the West, 1500-1800. (Critical Issues in World and International History) Fourth Edition. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2013.
• Henrietta Harrison, The Missionary’s Curse and Other Tales from a Chinese Catholic Village. University of California Press, 2013.
• Wu Xiaoxin, ed.,[美] 吴小新编,《远方叙事：中国基督宗教研究的视角方法与趋势》. Narratives from the Hinterland: Perspectives, Methodologies and Trends in the Study of Christianity in China. 广西师范大学出版社 Guangxi Normal University Press, 2014年.
• D.E. Mungello, The Catholic Invasion of China: Remaking Chinese Christianity. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.  
• Paul Rule & Claudia von Collani, eds., Kilian Stumpf SJ, The Acta Pekinensia or Historical Records of the Maillard de Tournon Legation, Volume I December 1705-August 1706. (Monumenta Historica S.I. Nova Series 9), Rome-Macau, 2015.
• Tang Kaijian, Setting Off from Macau: Essays on Jesuit History during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. (Jesuit Studies: Modernity through the Prism of Jesuit History, Volume 5. Brill: Leiden-Boston, 2016.

FIELD TRIPS

1. To Fung Shan 道风山, Shatin. Tentativedate: Afternoon of 14 March. Date to be confirmed after add/drop period.
2. Holy Spirit Study Centre 圣神研究中心, Aberdeen. Tentativedate: Afternoon of 4 April. Date to be confirmed after add/drop period.

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