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Tony Lambert, China’s Christian Millions: The Costly Revival, Littleton, Co.: OMF Books, 1999.

Ling, Samuel and Stacey Bieler, eds. Chinese Intellectuals and the Gospel. P & R Publishing, 2000. A book with deep insight into the intellectual and spiritual issues that educated Chinese are wrestling with, and practical suggestions for outreach to them.

Bays, Daniel, ed. Christianity in China: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present. Stanford, Ca.: Stanford University Press, 1996. The best history available.

Ralph R. Covell, Confucius, the Buddha, and Christ: A History of the Gospel in Chinese, Wipf & Stock Publishers (January 2004).

Ryan Dunch, Fuzhou Protestants and the Making of a Modern China, 1857-1927, Yale University Press (May 1, 2001).

Kindopp, Jason and Carol Lee Hamrin, eds. God and Caesar in China: Policy Implications of Church-State Tensions. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2004.

Chan, Kim-Kwong and Tetsunao Yamamori, Holistic Entrepreneurs in China. William Carey International University Press, 2002. Creative ways Chinese believers are using new economic opportunities to build God’s Kingdom.

Aikman, David. Jesus in Beijing: How Christianity is Transforming China and
Changing the Global Balance of Power. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2003. A lively portrait of the growth of the house church and its influence.

Crossman, Eileen Fraser. Mountain Rain: A New Biography of James O. Fraser. Littleton, Co.: OMF Books, 1984. A riveting modern rendition of an amazing and inspirational story of the conversion of the Lisu people of Southwest China.

Stacey Bieler, Patriots or Traitors: A History of American-Educated Chinese Students, M.E. Sharpe (November 2003).

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John Sung, The Diaries of John Sung: An Autobiography, Translated by Stephen L. Sheng, Luke H. Sheng, Stephen L. Sheng (1995)

Tony Lambert, The Resurrection of the Chinese Church, Harold Shaw Pub (October 1994).

A.J. Broomhall, The Shaping of Modern China: Hudson Taylor’s Life and Legacy, two volumes.

Xinyuan Li, Theological Construction – or Destruction: An Analysis of the Theology of Bishop K.H. Ting (Ding Guangxun), Christian Life Press, Inc (2004).

David Marshall, True Son of Heaven: How Jesus Fulfills the Chinese Culture, Kuai Mu Press (December 6, 2002).

Yamamori, Tetsunao and Kim-Kwong Chan. Witnesses to Power: Stories of God’s Quiet Work in a Changing China. Paternoster Press, 2000. Highly inspiring stories of faith and ministry by Chinese in both registered and unregistered Christian communities.

Michael Harris Bond, Beyond the Chinese Face: Insights from Psychology, Oxford University Press, USA (January 16, 1992).

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The Review provides an Asia-focused forum for independent thought on the trends in economy, politics and society that impact the region. http://www.feer.com/

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David M. Finkelstein and Maryanne Kivlehan, eds. China’s Leadership in the Twenty-First Century: The Rise of the Fourth Generation. Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2003. Chapters highlight the challenges facing a new generation of leaders.

Lardy, Nicholas. Integrating China into the Global Economy. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2002.

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Nathan, Andrew J. and E. Perry Link, eds. The Tiananmen Papers: The Chinese Leadership’s Decision to use Force Against Their own People - in their own words. New York: LLC Public Affairs, 2001.

Shen Tong. Almost a Revolution: The Story of a Chinese Student’s Journey from Boyhood to Leadership in Tiananmen Square, University of Michigan Press (October 15, 1998).

Dai, Sijie. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress. New York: Random House, Anchor Books, 2002. A novel full of ironic humor showing perennial Chinese rural life through the eyes of young people sent to the countryside.

Cheng, Nien. Life and Death in Shanghai. HarperCollins Publishers; New Ed edition (January 1995). A classic; the moving story by a Chinese Christian of one family’s suffering from fanatical attacks on educated, urban Chinese with foreign connections.

Jin, Ha. Waiting. New York: Random House, Pantheon Books, 1999. A National Book Award winner that tells a poignant story of the quiet desperation of family and work life in the late Mao era.

Chang, Jung (Jenny). Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China. Touchstone; Reprint edition (August 12, 2003). The stories of three generations – a concubine in imperial China, a Nationalist fighting the Japanese, and a young Red Guard – are a lively introduction to modern Chinese history.

Chetham, Deirdre. Before the Deluge: The Vanishing World of the Yangtze’s Three Gorges. New York: Palgrave, 2003. A journalist’s reflections on the Yangzi.

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1997), and China’s Three Gorges (192:3, September 1997).

Temple of Heaven: One China, One Emperor, One God. CBN, Inc. 2003. www.templeofheaven.net . The history of China’s ancient worship of the “Most High God” (Shang Di), showing the Emperor’s sacrifices on behalf of the people at the Altar of Heaven in Beijing, portrayed by a believer who is a descendant of the fifth Qing dynasty Emperor, Jiaqing.

Yuan Zhiming, The Cross: Jesus in China. four-part DVD showing the mission roots, perseverance under persecution, and joy in current ministry of Chinese believers. info@chinasoul.org (707) 782-9588

Zhang Yimou, film, “The Story of Qiu Ju [literally, Qiu Ju Goes to Court].” the new consciousness of legal rights in the 1990s, and “Hero” (Emperor Qin Shi huangdi)

Zhang Yimou, China’s most famous film director. See an interview and bibliography at Senses of Cinema.

• “Ju Dou” (an arranged marriage in traditional rural China)


• “Raise the Red Lantern” (traditional life in a wealthy land-owning household)


• “Red Sorghum” (the 1940s anti-Japanese war in Shandong, East China)


• “To Live!” [literally, “Survival”] (during Mao’s Cultural Revolution)


• “The Story of Qiu Ju” (literally, Qiu Ju Goes to Court, on the new consciousness of legal rights in the 1990s)


• “Hero” (China’s founding Emperor Qin Shihuangdi, whose tomb is in Xi’an)