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 D25/95

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 right, "The children in the orphanages were not well fed and clothed, had to do a thousand kinds of work all day, and were often beaten by the imperialist nuns" (育婴堂,孤儿院的孩子们,吃不够穿不暖,整天还要千种活,还常常遭到帝国主义修女的毒打).

Middle, "In the cold winter, the imperialist nuns punished the children by making them kneel in the yard, shivering from the cold" (十冬腊月,帝国主义修女还要罚孩子跪在院子里,冻得孩子浑身发抖).

Below, "These are the various torture instruments used by the Shanghai Notre Dame Orphanage to beat children at will." (这是上海圣母院育婴堂用来任意欧打孩子们的各种刑具).

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