My ongoing research focuses on religious policy and conflict in the People’s Republic of China. More specifically, I focus on Christian resistance in post-1949 China. My recent work, Church Militant: ...

Paul Mariani, S.J., has given us a first-rate product here. All scholars of modern Chinese Christian history are in his debt, as are all scholars of church history in any part of the world.

Last night I finished reading Paul Mariani’s astonishing new biography, Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Life, which we reviewed in a "Bookings" section of our magazine a few weeks ago. It is simply ...

Yet, in 2006, that is what happened to Jesuit Father Paul Mariani. He had traveled to China to research how the Communist Party crushed the Catholic Church in Shanghai, one of the most dynamic ...

Paul Mariani may have put to rout that old memory of mine. Far from a mindless, regimented group activity, his retreat was unique, tailored to his individual biography and needs–the spiritual ...