Background For the first time in Chinese history, multitudes of middle-class professionals are exploring religion, especially Christianity, to find meaning for their personal and national existence. A number of prominent public intellectuals and social entrepreneurs look to Christianity as they...
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In this fast-paced volume,
China history expert Jonathan Spence studies the lives of sixteen Western advisors of various sorts who went to
China to make a difference in that great nation.
David Aikman has given us perhaps the most controversial introduction to the explosive increase and growing influence of Christianity in
China. According to Aikman, we are talking not just about an incredible increase in the number of Chinese Christians in the past fifty years (from one or two million to more than 70 million), but what might become a fundamental shift in world power alignments.
The twenty chapters in this collection of essays fall into four sections, entitled: “Christianity and the Dynamics of Qing Society”; “Christianity and Ethnicity”; “Christianity and Chinese Women”; and “The Rise of an Indigenous Chinese Christianity.”
At each step, Cooper seeks to fulfill the promise of the title, showing how a case can be made either for Taiwan as a nation-state or as a province of
China. Given the incendiary nature of this subject, he has achieved remarkable success in maintaining a balanced and neutral approach.
Chinese religion today defies neat categories. Though the government recognizes Buddhism, Daoism, Islam, and Christianity (both Protestant and Roman Catholic), actual practice often blurs these boundaries.
This collection of first-hand accounts of aspects of
China’s history from 1949-1999 provides rare personal glimpses of political and historical movements and trends.
We need to understand, and gear our policy to, the PRC’S outdated and unpopular framework for religious policy, and the internal debate about it since 1987-88 attempt to draft a religion law.
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