Heaven in Conflict: Franciscans and the Boxer Uprising in Shanxi PUB20071001 Kaye points toward the complex

Kaye points toward the complex ways in which participants negotiate state control in relation to other forms of constraint in their lives

and what it means to be guilty

taken from real-life examples

ISBN-13: 9780300046199

Heaven in Conflict: Franciscans and the Boxer Uprising in Shanxi PUB20071001 Kaye points toward the complexOne of the most violent episodes of China's Boxer Uprising was the Taiyuan Massacre of 1900, in which rebels killed foreign missionaries and thousands of Chinese Christians. This first sustained scholarly account of the uprising to focus on Shanxi Province illuminates the religious and cultural beliefs on both sides of the conflict and shows how they came to clash. Although Franciscans were the first Catholics to settle in China, their stories have