Item Details
Skip Navigation Links
   ActiveUsers:2642Hits:21020845Skip Navigation Links
Show My Basket
Contact Us
IDSA Web Site
Ask Us
Today's News
HelpExpand Help
Advanced search

In Basket
  Journal Article   Journal Article
 

ID162845
Title ProperRemoving transcendence
Other Title Informationregulating christianity in southwest China in the 1950s
LanguageENG
AuthorLiang, Yongjia
Summary / Abstract (Note)The article analyzes primary sources about regulating Catholic and
Protestant communities in Dali, Southwest China, during the heyday of
the People’s Republic. It was a process of sophisticated containment,
inltration, spying, and coercion, with a corresponding restrained use
of violence. is is surprising given that, rst, both Catholic and Protestant communities were small and, second, that violence against other
potential threats—counterrevolutionaries and landlords—was severe. I
suggest the goal for the local Department of United Front ( 統戰部
tongzhan bu) was not to eradicate Christianity by force but to divide the
church into those who would submit themselves to the communist
utopia and isolate the hard-core devotees with the expectation that both
would eventually die out without “contaminating” the emerging
socialist subjects. e regulatory process was one in which the state
power attempted to remove the Christian transcendence with a communist one. e article challenges the state-society dichotomy underlying
the study of Chinese religiosity, especially the claim of “militant
atheism,” which depicts the People’s Republic of China’s early policy on
Christianity.
`In' analytical NoteChina Review Vol. 18, No.4; Nov 2018: p. 85–105
Journal SourceChina Review 2018-12 18, 4
Key WordsChristianity ;  Southwest China ;  1950s