The missionary's curse and other tales from a Chinese Catholic village /
The Missionary's Curse tells the story of a Chinese village that has been Catholic since the seventeenth century, drawing direct connections between its history, the globalizing church, and the nation. Harrison recounts the popular folk tales of merchants and peasants who once adopted Catholic...
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2013
Berkeley, CA : [2013] |
| Series: | Asia--local studies/global themes ;
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1 Ancestors Who Founded the Village
- 2. Bishop and the Wolf
- 3. Priest Who Ran Away to Rome
- 4. Boxer Uprising and the Souls in Purgatory
- 5. Missionary Who Cursed the Village
- 6. Four Fragrances and the Flying Bicycle
- 7. Village Since the 1980s.
- Machine generated contents note: 1 Ancestors Who Founded the Village
- 2. Bishop and the Wolf
- 3. Priest Who Ran Away to Rome
- 4. Boxer Uprising and the Souls in Purgatory
- 5. Missionary Who Cursed the Village
- 6. Four Fragrances and the Flying Bicycle
- 7. Village Since the 1980s.
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Terminology and Names
- Introduction
- 1. The Ancestors Who Founded the Village
- 2. The Bishop and the Wolf
- 3. The Priest Who Ran Away to Rome
- 4. The Boxer Uprising and the Souls in Purgatory
- 5. The Missionary Who Cursed the Village
- 6. The Four Fragrances and the Flying Bicycle
- 7. The Village Since the 1980s
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index