{"id":86139,"date":"2026-09-19T09:09:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T01:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=86139"},"modified":"2026-09-19T09:09:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T01:09:14","slug":"reflections-a-polish-priests-perilous-mission-to-save-a-doomed-chinese-dynasty-with-catholic-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=86139","title":{"rendered":"Reflections | A Polish priest\u2019s perilous mission to save a doomed Chinese dynasty with Catholic links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/09\/16\/816b1d23-a08d-4380-8286-fdb70a6ade29_6690e0d0.jpg?itok=xciNJhpK&amp;v=1789553209\" \/><\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\">I spent a week in Warsaw and ate more <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">pierogi<\/span> than I could shake a stick at.<\/div>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\">These beloved traditional Polish dumplings come filled with potatoes, cheese, meat, mushrooms and even fruit. Boiled or fried, they may look familiar to anyone acquainted with <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">jiaozi<\/span>, the Chinese dumpling, although their flavours are distinctly Polish.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\">This is not to suggest that dumplings travelled directly from China to Poland. One theory posits that dumpling-like foods \u2013 from Nepalese momo and Central Asian and Turkish <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">manti<\/em> to Georgian <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">khinkali<\/em> \u2013 spread westwards from their origin in East Asia through Central and South Asia, the Middle East and, eventually, Europe. Another posits that filled dumplings emerged in multiple places independently rather than from a single source.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/chinese-culture\/article\/3367680\/polish-priests-perilous-mission-save-doomed-chinese-dynasty-catholic-links?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent a week in Warsaw and ate more pierogi than I could shake a stick at. These beloved traditional Polish dumplings come filled with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[13713,107,9801,4584,7062,7717,30274,7884,30273,5433,610],"class_list":["post-86139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-catholic","tag-chinese","tag-doomed","tag-dynasty","tag-links","tag-mission","tag-perilous","tag-polish","tag-priests","tag-reflections","tag-save","wpcat-33-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/86140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}