Missions Étrangères de Paris (MEP) and China from the Seventeenth Century to the Present

Ji Li, is Assistant Professor of History at The University of Hong Kong. She has published monographs and articles in English and Chinese, including God’s Little Daughters: Catholic Women in Nineteenth-Century Manchuria (Washington, 2015).

• AcknowledgmentsNotes on ContributorsList of Figures and TablesIntroduction: Placing the Société des Missions Étrangères de Paris (MEP) in Late Imperial and Modern ChinaJi LiPart 1 Cultural accommodation in the 17th and 18th centuries1 Nobis Solis Sinensibus: When Jean Basset Identified Himself as Chinese in Order to Promote the Term ShangdiFrançois Barriquand2 Telling Biblical Stories in Chinese: A Case Study of Two Gospel TextsYanrong Chen3 The Formulation and Implementation of Rules for Virgins and its Influence on the Historical Process of Chinese ChurchZhijie Kang and Qing WuPart 2 Intensification of Evangelization in the Early and Mid-19th Century4 Roman Catholic Presence in Guangdong at the Time of the Return of the MEP in the Mid-19th CenturyJean-Paul Wiest5 La Mort d’ Auguste Chapdelaine : Prétexte d’ une Guerre, Occasion du Protectorat Religieux de la France en ChineMatthieu MassonPart 3 Expansion of MEP Presence in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries6 Bishop Guillemin and the Creation of MEP’s Real Estate Empire in South ChinaHongyan Xiang7 MEP Missionary Educational Endeavors in Modern Southwest China: A Case Study of Latin School and Kanghua Elementary School in KangdingAidong Zhao8 Le Procès en diffamation de Paul-Hubert Perny: Un aperçu de la sinologie française dans la deuxième moitié du XIXe siècleLina GuoConclusion: Vignettes of Responses by MEP Missionaries to China, 1886–1936Ernest P. YoungAppendix: MEP in China: A Chronology from the 17th Century to the PresentJean-Pierre CharbonnierIndex

"This book represents a significant step toward emphasizing the importance of the MEP in the current scholarship in China. The book highlights MEP’s key role in shaping the Catholic Church’s interaction with Chinese society, which has significantly advanced the study of Chinese Catholic history and contributed to the growing scholarship on religion, the state, and local culture." - Wei Xiong, Central China Normal University, Religious Studies Review, 48/3 (2022).nationalisme"L’ensemble laisse à la fois entrevoir la richesse des archives des MEP conservées à la rue du Bac à Paris, et la diversité des pistes derecherche à envisager."- Paul Servais, Revue d'histoire eccleésiastique.