The counter-revolutionary and restorationist crimes of Catholicism before Liberation

解放前天主教会反革命复辟活动的罪行
Jiefangqian Tianzhu jiaohui fangeming fubi huodongde zuixing
The counter-revolutionary and restorationist crimes of Catholicism before Liberation
mid 1960s
Publisher unknown
54x38 cm.
BG D25/102

A two-part series detailing the counterrevolutionary activities and "crimes" perpetrated by the Roman Catholic Mission in China before and after 1949. Both series are incomplete: the first part lacks the opening sheets; the second part lacks at least one sheet, and possibly more at the end.
Due to this, it is impossible to indicate when the series were published, where, by whom, and for what specific purpose. The last evil deed discussed, at the end of part two, dates from July 1965, during the "Four Clean Ups" movement (四清运动). This suggests that the two series were published some time in the mid-1960s.
The names of the foreign missionaries have been identified as far as possible.

Top, "Photo right, on 19 September 1951, the Catholic Church Charity House in Tianjin held a meeting to denounce the imperialist nun De Zhongfang for her crimes against Chinese children." (右图,一九五一年九月十九日,天津市天主教仁慈堂举行控诉大会,控诉帝国主义修女德忠芳残害中国儿童的罪行).

Below that, "In the picture below, Zhang Qinghua, an orphan from the Charity House, angrily denounced the imperialist nun De Zhongfang for her crimes against orphans at the meeting". (下图,仁慈堂孤儿张庆华在这次大会上,愤怒控诉帝国主义修女德忠芳残害孤儿的罪行).

Middle, "After Liberation, at a meeting to denounce the crimes of Catholic imperialists, the mothers of the children of Shanghai Notre Dame Cathedral were filled with grief and indignation when they learned that their children had been killed by imperialists." (解放后,上海圣母院孩子的母亲们,在控诉天主教帝国主义分子罪行大会上知道自己的孩子被帝国主义分子害死后,都悲愤万分).

Below, "This is a photo of a large number of Catholics and people from all walks of life in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, holding a meeting to denounce the heinous crimes of the U.S. imperialists in killing our children". (这是湖北省武汉市广大天主教徒和各界人民举行大会,控诉美帝国主义分子残害我国儿童的滔天罪行的照片).

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