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 D25/75

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 possibile.

At the top, "This is the confession of Waldersee, the leader of the 'Eight-Nation Alliance' that invaded China in 1900. In his ‘Notes on the Boxer Rebellion’, he confessed that ‘it is extremely difficult to organize detective work here. I rely on the help of Catholic priests to obtain all the information from the interior.’ This fully shows that the imperialist missionaries are special forces and spies sent by the imperialists to invade China.” (这是一九00年帝国主义侵略中国的“八国联军”的头子瓦德西的自供。在他所写的“拳乱笔记”中供认“此间关于侦探一事极难着手组织。所有内地消息之探知,余多赖天主教牧师(神甫)之助”。这充分说明帝国主义传教士是帝国主义为侵略中国而派来的别动队和坐探.)

Alfred Ludwig Heinrich Karl Graf von Waldersee (1832–1904) was a German field marshal who became Chief of the Imperial German General Staff.
Born into a prominent military family, von Waldersee saw distinguished service as an artillery officer, and became Prussian military attaché at the Paris embassy in 1870. This gave him insight into the French defences that would prove crucial in the upcoming Franco-Prussian War, in which he played a significant role. Later, von Waldersee gained influence with the future Kaiser Wilhelm II, who promoted him Chief of Staff on his accession. When the Peking legation compound was besieged by the Boxer insurgents in 1900, von Waldersee was appointed as head of an eight-nation relief force. He was greatly disappointed that the main fighting was over after he arrived in Beijing on 17 October 1900, where he installed himself in the bedroom of the Dowager Empress in the Forbidden City. He conducted punitive expeditions, which succeeded in pacifying the Boxers.

The Eight-Nation Alliance was a multinational military coalition that invaded northern China in 1900, with the stated aim of relieving the foreign legations in Beijing, which was being besieged by the popular Boxer militiamen, who were determined to remove foreign imperialism from China. The allied forces consisted of about 45,000 troops from Germany, Japan, Russia, Britain, France, the United States, Italy, and Austria-Hungary. Neither the Chinese nor the foreign allies issued a formal declaration of war. Some Western historians define the first phase of hostilities, starting in August 1900, as "more or less a civil war", though the Battle of the Taku Forts in June pushed the Qing government to support the Boxers. With the success of the invasion, the later stages developed into a punitive colonial expedition, which pillaged Beijing and North China for more than a year. The fighting ended in 1901 with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.

Below, ”Imperialist missionaries actively contributed to the unequal treaties that imperialism forced the Qing government to sign. The drafting of the Sino-French Unequal Treaty was participated in by the French imperialist missionary Meng Zhensheng (former Bishop of the Beijing Diocese). He added another clause to the Chinese version of Article 6 of the treaty: 'French missionaries can rent or buy land in various provinces to build as they please.' The picture shows the French text of Article 6 of the Sino-French Unequal Treaty and a photo of Meng Zhensheng.“ (帝国主义传教士在帝国主义强迫清政府签订不平等条约中,积极出谋划策。中法不平等条约的起草,就是法帝国主义传教士孟振生(原北京教区主教)参加。他在条约第六款中文本上又加上一条:‘法国传教士在各省租买田地建造自便’。图为中法不平等条约第六款中,法文的比较和孟振生照片).

Meng Zhensheng was the Chinese name of Bishop Joseph-Martial Mouly, C.M. (1807-1868).

All posters in this series