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Alan Richard Sweeten. Christianity in Rural China: Conflict and Accommodation in Jiangxi Province, 1860–1900. (Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies, number 91.) Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan; distributed by University of Michigan Press. 2001. Pp. xii, 281. $50.00.

This study provides valuable insights into not only the role of Christianity, specifically Catholicism, in nineteenth-century China but also the workings of the Chinese bureaucracy and local society during a time of general disintegration precipitated by, or at least exacerbated by, Western intrusion. The period under examination is marked by two pivotal events in Sino-Western relations: the treaty arrangements of 1858–1860 that permitted and protected Christian missionary work in China's interior, and the Boxer Rebellion and China's humiliation by the allied powers in 1900. In response to the growing foreign crises, the Chinese imperial court in 1861 established the Zongli Yamen (Office for General Management of Foreign Relations), and it is the well-preserved archives of this agency that Alan Richard Sweeten utilizes to challenge three assumptions that he feels have governed earlier studies of Christianity in China: that Christians regularly faced gentry-led harassment, that they were marginalized troublemakers, and that they formed separate enclaves in their communities. . . .

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