Ancestors, virgins, & friars : Christianity as a local religion in late Imperial China / Eugenio Menegon.

"Christianity is often praised as an agent of Chinese modernization or damned as a form of cultural and religious imperialism. In both cases, Christianity's foreignness and the social isolation of converts have dominated this debate. This book aims to uncover another story. In the sixteent...

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Main Author: Menegon, Eugenio, 1966- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Asia Center for the Harvard-Yenching Institute : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2009.
Series:Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; 69.
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