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 D25/86

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.

The slogan above reads "Imperialist missionaries and the Catholic Church extorted and cruelly exploited the Chinese people” (帝国主义传教士和天主教会对中国人民进行敲诈勒索残酷剥削)

Below, "Imperialist missionaries and the Catholic Church seized land and extorted money, forcing the hard-working peasants to become homeless and their families torn apart. In the Hetao and Ordos areas of Inner Mongolia alone, they seized more than 5 million mu of land and extorted more than 1.2 million taels of silver after the failure of the Boxer Rebellion.” (帝国主义传教士和天主教会强占土地,勒索钱财,逼得劳苦农民流离失所,家破人亡。仅在内蒙的河套和鄂尔多斯一带,就强占了五百多万亩土地,在义和团反帝运动失败后,勒索了白银一百二十多万两).

Bottom left, "Look, another piece of evidence of the Catholic Church’s occupation of Chinese land! This is the 'permanent lease' license of the Tianjin Catholic Church occupying the land of Chongxi Temple in Wanghailou“ (看,天主教会霸占中国土地的又一罪证!这是天津天主堂霸占望海楼崇禧观土地的“永租”执照)

Bottom right, "Imperialist missionaries seized a large amount of land from the Chinese people and rented it out to Chinese farmers for cruel exploitation. This is part of the land deeds stored in Catholic churches in Jiangsu, Shandong and other places.“ (帝国主义传教士从中国人民手里霸占了大量土地,又出租给中国农民,进行残酷剥削。这是江苏,山东等地天主堂存放的一部分地契).

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