{"product_id":"making-catholicism-chinese-stephanie-m-wong-9780197623695","title":"Making Catholicism Chinese: The Catholic Church in a Modernizing China","description":"\u003cem\u003eMaking Catholicism Chinese\u003c\/em\u003e examines a little-known chapter of Catholic life in China, when a coalition of foreign-born and Chinese Catholics strove to make the Church indigenously \"Chinese.\" This book demonstrates how the indigenization movement, begun as a bid to render Catholicism a Chinese religion, came to support Chinese state-building instead. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the first half of the 20th century, China transformed from a faltering and semi-colonized empire to a tentatively pluralistic republic to an increasingly militarized one-party state. Religious communities were driven to \"modernize\" for the sake of the new nation. In the case of Catholicism, the Belgian-born Lazarist Vincent Lebbe most publicly advocated for a Chinese Church, though the wider movement was guided by an array of Chinese clergy, newspaper magnates, scholar-politicians, artists, and army medics and combatants striving in various ways to be both faithful Catholics and patriotic citizens. Their indigenization project coincided with a national embrace of modernity as an ideal, leading Catholics to take up a variety of causes: promoting Chinese clergy as bishops in opposition to French dominance in the missions, experimenting with new forms of education and mass media, and ultimately joining the right-leaning Nationalist regime's war effort against Japan. Stephanie Wong thoroughly documents this history and definitively shows that the movement failed to establish the local Church as a distinct Chinese religion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stephanie M. Wong\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0197623697\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780197623695\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/22\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 260\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Stephanie M. Wong","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47965467083007,"sku":"9780197623695","price":132.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7d8b4457-96e6-4159-9a7d-4c7fea921ac5.jpg?v=1767280763","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/making-catholicism-chinese-stephanie-m-wong-9780197623695","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}