O religii w Chińskiej Republice Ludowej. Notatka z rozmowy przeprowadzonej przez radcę ambasady polskiej w Pekinie z zastępcą kierownika Pracowni Badawczej w Urzędzie do spraw Religii przy Radzie Państwa Chińskiej Republiki Ludowej 20 sierpnia 1987 r
About Religion in the People’s Republic of China. Note from a Conversation Held by the Counsellor of the Polish Embassy in Beijing with the Deputy Head of the Research Unit at the Office for Religious Affairs at the State Council of the People’s Repu

Summary/Abstract: On 20 August 1987, the counsellor of the Polish Embassy in Beijing held a conversation with the deputy head of the Research Unit at the Office for Religious Affairs at the State Council of the People’s Republic of China. The article includes a report on it. It is preceded by an introduction which outlines historical and cultural conditions which have a significant impact on the policy of Chinese communists towards religion. It is also pointed out that the decision-makers of the Communist Party of China considered the greatest potential threat to their power to be the Catholic Church, which was subjected to the most severe repression during the dictatorship of Mao Zedong and benefited from the later liberalisation the least. Methods used to subordinate representatives of particular denominations to the policy of the PRC as well as formal and legal conditions for the functioning of religious associations in the Middle Kingdom are also presented.

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