CATHOLIC CHURCH AND CHINA IN THE 20TH CENTURY

Building a Church which is at one and the same time Chinese and Catholic, that is to say universal, and combining a cultural identity with a religious identity, both of which are complex, has never been an easy feat for Chinese Catholics. This volume outlines a rigorous historical reconstruction of this challenge throu-ghout the 20th century, from the end of the Qing dynasty, during the Republican period and after the Communist revolution of 1949 up to the present. This result is possible thanks to contributions by European and Chinese academics, historians of the Church and specialists on China, with a plurality of mutually complementary approaches. Particular attention is given to the sources available for studies on Chinese contemporary Christianity, with it being increasingly possible today to make a histo-rical analysis of the events of the Christian Churches in China in the 20th century based on original documents.