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 D25/76

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, “Please see, this is the ’passport‘ that imperialism issued to foreign missionaries using unequal treaties. The ’passport‘ states that not only can the Chinese government not touch foreign priests, but also that they must guarantee their ’peace.‘ With this ’passport,‘ they have been bullying and oppressing the Chinese people everywhere in China, carrying out various aggressive activities." (请看,这是帝国主义利用不平等条约发给外国传教士的“护照”。“护照”上面写着中国官府非但碰不得外国神甫,而且要担保他们的“太平”。他们就是拿了这种“护照”,在中国到处横行霸道,欺压中国人民,进行各种侵略活动。)

Below, "In 1901, after the Boxer Rebellion failed in its anti-imperialist struggle, the imperialists forced the Qing government to compensate with a large amount of money and hand it over to the Catholic Church. This was a compensation treaty that the French imperialist at that time, Bishop Fan Guoliang of the Beijing Catholic Church, forced the Qing government to sign (the above is the French text of the treaty), requiring the Qing government to compensate the Beijing Catholic Church 2,527,110 taels of silver." (公元一九0一年,义和团反帝斗争失败后,帝国主义强迫清政府赔偿大量钱财交给天主教会。这是当时法帝国主义分子,北京天主教付主教樊國樑强迫清政府签订的赔款条约(上面是条约的法文本),要区政府赔偿北京天主教会银子二百五十二万七千一百两).

Fan Guoliang was the Chinese name of Pierre-Marie-Alphonse Favier-Duperron C.M. (1837-1905). Favier was responsible for negotiating the imperial decree of 15 March 1899 that placed Catholic bishops on a par with the Chinese governors and governors general, an unpopular move with a number of Catholics, Protestants and the Chinese. During the Boxer Uprising, Favier was responsible for the defence and preservation of the Beitang Cathedral in Beijing, and the protection of thousands of Chinese Catholic Christians. In the aftermath of the Boxer Uprising, Favier was accused of looting.

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