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China's Decolonization and Missionaries: Québec's Cold War

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Granger, Serge
Copyright Year	2005
Abstract	When Mao declared the People’s Republic of China in 1949, he triggered a reassessment in all sectors of Chinese society, including religion. This form of decolonization can be explained by a desire of the new communist regime to control all forms of thought and activity. The Chinese Communist Party (hereafter CCP) implemented laws that would eventually create the Chinese Patriotic Church, an institution still not recognized by the Roman Catholic Church. Hundreds of Quebec missionaries were present in China at the time and were among the last missionaries to leave the country. This departure coloured Quebec’s Cold War. This paper explores how China’s decolonization affected Quebec missionaries and how it generated much more than a religious controversy. 1 China became Quebec’s Cold War in politics and culture because missionaries, having been involved in China for fifty years, were strongly opposed to Chinese communism. They were well-organized and utilized different media (film, periodicals, and classrooms) in an effort to publicize their opposition to the recognition of the communist regime and the Chinese Patriotic Church. An initial brief outline of the CCP’s policy toward religion provides some background to the new rules that were aimed at regaining total control over the Christian clergy in China. It also sets the historical context in which forces Quebec missionaries were forced out of China. The second part of the paper details how Quebec missionaries, especially the Catholics, experienced China’s drive to decolonization by introducing its
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Language	English
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