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 D25/88

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.

Above, "The Catholic Church has carried out all kinds of cruel exploitation on the Chinese working people. These are the two scoops used by the Catholic Church in the suburbs of Shanghai to collect rent and lend money at high interest rates. One scoop holds 95 kilograms, and the other holds 87 kilograms. The big scoops go in, and the small scoops go out. Not to mention the high interest rate exploitation, the difference between the two scoops is as much as 8 kilograms. Under the despicable and cruel exploitation of the Catholic Church, I don’t know how much farmers’ blood and sweat has been plundered by them!” (天主教会对中国劳苦人民进行各式各样的残酷剥削。这是上海郊区泅泾天主堂收租和放高利货用的两个头,一个装九十五斤,另一个装八十七斤,大头进,小头出,且不说它高利盘剥,就这样一进一出,每头就差八斤之多,在天主堂这样卑鄙残酷手段的剥削下,不知有多少农民的血汗被它们搜刮了!).

Below, "The imperialist missionaries and their running dogs exploited the blood and sweat of the Chinese people and lived a life of debauchery, while the hard-working Chinese people were exploited by them and had nothing to eat or wear and lived a miserable life.” (帝国主义传教士和他们的走狗,用剥削中国人民的大量血汗,过着花天酒地的生活,而辛勤劳动的中国人民却被他们剥削的没吃没穿,过着悲惨的生活).

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