CHINA JESUITS IN EAST ASIA 1948-1968 東亞中華耶穌會會士 1948-1968

CHINA JESUITS IN EAST ASIA 1948-1968

東亞中華耶穌會會士 1948-1968

Fernando Mateos SJ 沈起元

Edited by Edmund Ryden SJ 雷敦龢

 

6 Volumes

With the publication of the six volumes of China Jesuits in East Asia 1948-1968, the Taipei Ricci Institute is happy to make a major contribution to the history of the Society of Jesus in the Far East during the two decades which followed World War II. These six volumes provide indeed much detailed information on how the dispersal of all the numerous foreign Jesuits and Chinese Jesuit scholastics, who had been ordered to leave China following the takeover by the communist regime in mainland China in 1949, led to the creation of many Jesuit residences and various new and creative works, not only in Taiwan, which was then considered as being Free China, but also in the Philippines, Malaysia-Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.

This publication is, primarily and principally, the fruit of the patient labour of Fr Fernando Mateos沈起元神父, SJ (1920-2015) who, during the two last decades of the last century, collected an incredible number of written documents and oral interviews before writing a first draft of the whole work in two thick volumes. From Matteos’ initial work, however, only the first volume Starting from Zero 1949-1957 was published in 1995, without an index and in poor English.

Then came the contribution of Fr Edmund Ryden雷敦龢神父, SJ who not only revised the whole work in his native language, but reorganized the chapters of the initial work into six thinner volumes, each of which concerns a specific area, a specific period of time and/or specific field of apostolate, which makes consultation and reading much easier.

The result is that Volume One now deals with the departure from China proper, temporary stays in Hong Kong and Macao (as well as the later ongoing missions there) and the temporary stay in the Philippines. Volume Two begins the story of Taiwan, which continues in the following two volumes. Volume Five deals with missions in southeast Asia.

臺北利氏很榮幸出版《China Jesuits in East Asia 1948-1968中國耶穌會士在東亞1948-1968》六冊套書，為二戰發生後二十年的遠東耶穌會歷史做出重大貢獻。書中明確記載了非常詳細的資訊，說明1949年中共政權接管後，勒令眾多外國及本國耶穌會士與學者離開中國，被驅逐的他們在當時被認為是自由中國的台灣，及菲律賓、馬來西亞—新加坡、泰國和越南，如何設立耶穌會院及各式各樣創新工作的描述。

本套書是沈起元神父（Fernando Mateos SJ, 1920-2015）付出無數耐心的成果展現。他在上世紀的後幾十年中，收集及整理數量龐大的書面文件及口述訪談，沈神父最初只在1995年出版了第一卷Starting from Zero 1949-1957，全書未附索引，英文也並不流暢。

後續接手的編者雷敦龢神父（Edmund Ryden SJ）也貢獻良多，他不僅以母語進行全面的修訂，還將原始章節重新編輯成為六冊的套書，把關於一個特定領域、時期或特定的使徒工作範疇分別歸類於每冊中，讓讀者在參考和閱讀變得更容易。

如此，第一冊包含了耶穌會士離開中國大陸、暫時停留於香港及澳門（以及開展後來的傳教工作），還有菲律賓的歷史。第二至四冊涵蓋台灣的故事。第五冊講述在東南亞的傳教活動。

Vol I REFUGEES 難民
Vol II TAIWAN: A NEW DAWN 台灣：黎明破曉
Vol III TAIWAN: THE SUN AT NOON 台灣：日中則昃
Vol IV TAIWAN: PHOENIXES REBORN 台灣：鳳凰復生
Vol V SOUTHEAST ASIA 東南亞
Vol VI APPENDICES 附錄索引

Language: English
Softcover: 1,475 pages, 6 Volumes (Set)
ISBN: 978-626-98785-0-5