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Author Clark, Anthony E., author.

Title Heaven in conflict : Franciscans and the Boxer uprising in Shanxi / Anthony E. Clark
Edition 1st edition
Published Seattle and London : University of Washington Press, 2014

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Contents Chronology of Franciscans in China -- Map of Shanxi -- Prologue: war of the immortals -- The drought and the heavenly battle -- Taiyuan, from mission to diocese -- Boxers and local gods -- Catholics and foreign gods -- The deluge and the earthly battle -- Red lantern women and Franciscan sisters -- Friars, magistrates, and the fists of righteous harmony -- Revenge and reconstruction
Summary One of the most violent episodes of China's Boxer Uprising was the Taiyuan Massacre of 1900, in which rebels killed foreign missionaries and thousands of Chinese Christians. This first sustained scholarly account of the uprising to focus on Shanxi Province illuminates the religious and cultural beliefs on both sides of the conflict and shows how they came to clash
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Franciscans -- China -- History -- 20th century
Franciscans -- China -- History -- 19th century
SUBJECT Franciscans fast
Subject HISTORY -- Asia -- China.
SUBJECT China -- History -- Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1901. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024100
Subject China
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780295805405
0295805404