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 D25/96

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 left, "The imperialists used the name of charity to swindle people everywhere. They used the large amount of money they swindled to enjoy themselves, while the poor children had to live a life of hunger and starvation." (帝国主义分子假借慈喜名义,到处招摇撞骗,他们把骗来的大批才物,供自已尽情亨受,而可怜的孩子们却过着忍饥挨饿的生活).

Top photo, "These are the various imported exquisite canned foods eaten by the French imperialist nun De Zhongfang and others in the Tianjin 'Charity House'. (这是天津市“仁慈堂”法帝国主义修女德忠芳等吃的各种进口的精美的品罐头).

De Zhongfang was the Chinese name of the Belgian nun who was the director of the "Charity House".

Middle, "This is what the children of Tianjin’s 'House of Mercy' eat. They eat the rotten vegetable roots and peels from the ground of the vegetable market."(这是天津市“仁慈堂”的孩子们吃的从菜市地上的烂菜根,烂菜皮).

Below, "Look at how the Catholic 'foundling house' tortured the children of our working people! These are babies in the 'New Foundling House' in Shanghai before the People's Government took over." (看,天主教的“育婴堂”把我国劳动人民的儿女折磨成什么样子!这是人民政府接管前,上海“新育婴堂”的婴儿).

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