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The Chinese Sisters of the Precious Blood and the Evolution of the Catholic Church
Cindy Yik-Yi Chu
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Hardback. Num Pages: 207 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HRCC7. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 217 x 17. Weight in Grams: 434.
This book traces the origins of the Chinese Sisters of the Precious Blood in Hong Kong and their history up to the early 1970s, and contributes to the neglected area of Chinese Catholic women in the history of the Chinese Catholic Church. It studies the growth of an indigenous community of Chinese sisters, who acquired a formal status in the local and universal Catholic Church, and the challenge of identifying Chinese Catholic women in studies dealing with the Chinese Church in the first half of the twentieth century, as these women remained faceless ... Read more
This book traces the origins of the Chinese Sisters of the Precious Blood in Hong Kong and their history up to the early 1970s, and contributes to the neglected area of Chinese Catholic women in the history of the Chinese Catholic Church. It studies the growth of an indigenous community of Chinese sisters, who acquired a formal status in the local and universal Catholic Church, and the challenge of identifying Chinese Catholic women in studies dealing with the Chinese Church in the first half of the twentieth century, as these women remained faceless ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Springer Verlag, Singapore
Condition
New
Number of Pages
207
Place of Publication
Singapore, Singapore
ISBN
9789811018527
SKU
V9789811018527
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Ref
99-15
About Cindy Yik-Yi Chu
Cindy Yik-yi Chu is Professor of History at Hong Kong Baptist University. She has published a number of books on the Catholic Church and the Catholic sisters in China and Hong Kong, such as Catholicism in China, 1900-Present (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).
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