Translingual Catholics

Jin Lu is a professor of French at Purdue University Northwest. She is the author of Éléments d'une enquête sur l'usage d'un mot au siècle des Lumières.

"Rather than confining Chinese Catholicism to its linguistic world and internal issues, Jin Lu considers Chinese Catholic intellectuals as polyglot actors inserted into the epochal change that Catholicism has experienced during the twentieth century. Such a shift of perspective makes this work significant from the start." —Benoît Vermander, author of The Encounter of Chinese and Western Philosophies"Translingual Catholics narrates the overlooked contributions of Catholic intellectuals of twentieth-century China, correcting the unbalanced nature of scholarship on Chinese Christianities, which has hitherto been preoccupied by the Protestant story. Drawing on French, English, and Chinese sources, this book offers a glimpse into World Christianity as seen through the eyes of translingual Chinese Catholics—beyond the limits of the 'Sino-Foreign Protestant Establishment.' Jin Lu has done us a tremendous service." —Alexander Chow, author of Chinese Public Theology

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Republican-era Chinese Catholics at the Crossroads of History: Telling Their Stories to the World2. Historical Lineage and the Making of Global Catholic Networks (1912-1927)3. Home Away from Home: The Abbey of Saint-André as a Center for Global Chinese Catholic networks (1927-1949)4. Paths to Faith: Chinese Catholic Conversion Narratives before Vatican II5. From Pagan Virtues to the Salvation of Non-Christians: Father Wang Changzhi's Contribution to Chinese Christianity6. Chinese Exodus: François Houang (Huang Jiacheng) and Catholicism in France (1932-1965)7. Chinese Catholicism's Mystic Turn and the French Ressourcement Movement (1940s to 1960s)AfterwordNotesGlossaryBibliographyIndex