Aloysius Jin Luxian

Aloysius Jin Luxian, SJ (; June 20, 1916 – April 27, 2013) was a Chinese Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Shanghai.

Biography Jin was born in 1916 into a family that had been Catholic for generations. The family lived in the southern part of Shanghai. during major crackdown against the counterrevolutionary clique of Ignatius Kung Pin-mei of Shanghai. Shortly after his arrest, he began to cooperate with the Chinese government.

Jin was ordained bishop of Shanghai without Vatican approval in 1985.

Jin died in 2013.

Views Evaluating the historical legacy of the Chinese rites controversy, Jin contended that the Catholic Church had blundered because a "Catholic who followed the prohibition [on observing traditional rites] in order to remain a Christian could not longer consider himself to be Chinese ... Chinese Catholics now became outcasts in their own society, pariahs among their own people."

Jin's view was that the Catholic Church had made previous errors in China that made it a "western religion for the West and not for China." Jin cited the special privileges to Christian converts (a contributing factor to the Boxer Rebellion), the Catholic Church's recognition of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo, the Church's request that Chinese Catholics remain neutral during the Japanese invasion of China, and how slow the Church was to consecrate Chinese bishops.

Based on this view of history, Jin stated that there were three lessons for the Church in China: (1) the Church must "share the fate of the people" in order to "put down roots", (2) pastoral activity should be based on inculturation, (3) the Church "must be independent of colonial powers and must be able to exercise regional self-determination."

Jin's memoirs cover through 1982. They were published for internal church use in 2009, and published in English in 2012 by Hong Kong University Press.