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Article: Han-Mongol Encounters and Missionary Endeavors: A History of Scheut in Ordos (Hetao), 1874-1911.(Book Review)
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- International Bulletin of Missionary Research
- Article date:
- April 1, 2005
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By Patrick Taveirne. Leuven: Leuven Univ. Press, 2004. Pp. 684. Paperback 52 [euro].
Patrick Taveirne is director of the Leuven Institute for Sino-Mongol Studies in Belgium and a researcher for the Holy Spirit Study Center in Hong Kong. In this comprehensive revision of his doctoral dissertation, he provides a detailed account of the Catholic missionary endeavor in the Chinese-Mongolian borderlands. The specific focus is on the vicariate apostolic of Southwest Mongolia, which included the great Yellow River Bend (known to the Chinese as "Hetao") and the Ordos Plateau outside the Great Wall.
The volume opens with a helpful account of the precarious ...