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Anthony E. Clark 
Heaven in Conflict 
Franciscans and the Boxer Uprising in Shanxi

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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.
Although Franciscans were the first Catholics to settle in China, their stories have rarely been explored in accounts of Chinese Christianity. Anthony Clark remedies that exclusion and highlights the roles of Franciscan nuns and their counterparts among the Boxers—the Red Lantern girls—to argue that women’s involvement was integral on both sides of the conflict. Drawing on rich archival records and intertwining religious history with political, cultural, and environmental factors, Clark provides a fresh perspective on a pivotal encounter between China and the West.

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Anthony E. Clark is associate professor of Chinese history / Edward B. Lindaman Endowed Chair at Whitworth University. He is the author of Heaven in Conflict: Franciscans and the Boxer Uprising in Shanxi (University of Washington Press, 2015), China’s Saints: Catholic Martyrdom during the Qing (1644–1911) (Lehigh University Press / Rowman & Littlefield, 2011), and Ban Gu’s History of Early China (Cambria Press, 2008); and the editor of China’s Christianity: From Missionary to Indigenous Church (Brill, 2017).
Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 248 ● ISBN 9780295805405 ● File size 9.4 MB ● Publisher University of Washington Press ● City Seattle ● Country US ● Published 2014 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 4852580 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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