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 D25/91

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, "Most of the students who graduated from church schools were introduced to foreign companies, schools and hospitals run by imperialism in China, or railways and post offices in our country controlled by imperialism, to become slaves of imperialism and serve them in invading China and exploiting the Chinese people." (从教会学校毕业出来的学生,大部是被介绍到洋行,帝国主义在中国举办的学校,医院或为帝国主义所控制的我国的铁路,邮政里去,作帝国主义的奴才,为它们侵略中国压榨中国人民服务). The text balloon reads "These are the talents trained by our church school who can serve you faithfully" (这是我们教会学校培养的可心忠实为您服务的人才).

Below, "The schools run by the Catholic Church persecuted students who did not accept their enslavement education and had patriotic and progressive ideas. The picture shows the confession of the imperialist Cai Ermeng, the president of Shanghai Catholic Aurora University, who colluded with the Shanghai French Concession Police Station to arrest the progressive student Ma Keqiang." (天主教会办的学校对不接受它们奴化教育,有爱国进步思想的学生,进行种种迫害。图为上海天主教震旦大學院长,帝国主义分子才尔孟,勾结上海法租界巡捕房逮捕进步学生马克强的自白书).

Cai Ermeng was the Chinese name of Georgius Germain (1895-1978), a French missionary and Jesuit. President of Aurora University in Shanghai (Executive Director, 1932-1947). In 1952, the Shanghai Public Security Bureau arrested the "counter-revolutionary" Germain and deported him after detaining him for a period of time.

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