The Missionary Activities Of The Chinese Catholics During The Prohibition Against The Catholicism In The Reigns Of Yongzheng And Qianlong Of The Qing Dynasty

The Present thesis dealt with the missionary activities of the Chinese Catholics during the prohibition against the Catholicism in the Reigns of Yongzheng and Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty. It began with the elaborating the dramatic changes of the conditions for the Catholicism's spread in China caused by the policy of suppressing Catholics all over the country. And then, it examed the forms and characteristics of the missionary activities of the Chinese Catholics in three groups, namely the Chinese clergy, catholicized imperial family and ordinary Catholics respectively. Based on those analysis the author held that owing to the decreasing number of foreign missionaries and increasing difficulties in their activities the Chinese Catholics took over major party of missionary task, thus making more important contribution than ever before to the spread of Catholicism in China during the special time, and gave rise to some important changes in the development of Catholicism in China, such as missionary object for the average people, towards the native Catholicism, mystical nature in the process and isolation from outside.