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mods: Making Catholicism Chinese the Catholic Church in a modernizing China Catholic Church in a modernizing China Wong, Stephanie M. creator author. text bibliography Electronic books. nyu 2025 monographic eng remote 1 online resource : illustrations, maps 'Making Catholicism Chinese' examines a little-known chapter of Catholic life in China, when a coalition of foreign-born and Chinese Catholics strove to make the Church indigenously 'Chinese'. It demonstrates how the indigenization movement, begun as a bid to render Catholicism a Chinese religion, came to support Chinese state-building instead. Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Figures -- PART 1 Setting the Stage -- 1 Catholic Witness and Chinese Religion in Republican Era China -- A Vignette from the Death of Vincent Lebbe: Bishops, Generals, and Newspaper Tycoons -- The Argument -- Chinese Religiosity: A Historical Claim -- Chinese Religiosity: A Theological Claim -- 2 Transnational, National, and Local: Catholicism in Semi-Colonized China -- The Context: Catholic Witness in Times of Change -- The Transnational Scope: Foreign Imperialism and the Rise in Papal Diplomacy The First Stage of Globalization: Administrative Ambitions, but Loose Control -- The Second Phase of Globalization: Military and Legal Imperialism -- A Third Phase of Globalization: "Soft Power" -- The National Scope: The Chinese Nationalism and the Chinese Church -- Anti-Imperialist Nationalism -- Ethnic Nationalism -- Progressive Nationalism -- The Local Scope: Chinese Religious Life and State Control -- Conclusion -- Part 2 Making the Church Chinese -- 3 The Early Life of Vincent Lebbe -- Priest and Patriot -- Childhood -- Lazarist Formation: The Modernist/Integralist Controversy The Boxer Uprising and Lebbe's Opportunity to Go to China -- Initial Ministry in China -- The Campaign for a Chinese Church (1906-1926) -- The Tianjin Method -- Catholic Journalism -- Opposing the French Religious Protectorate -- The Campaig…