Christianity in China: Some Recent Books
The following is a list of some of the scholarly books related Christianity in China that have appeared in the last fifteen years. Many more could have been included.
GCC Studies in Chinese Christianity
Cook, Richard R., and David W. Pao, eds., After Imperialism: Christian Identity in China and the Global Evangelical Movement.
Hamrin, Carol Lee and Stacey Bieler, eds., Salt & Light: Lives of Faith that Shaped Modern China. Three Volumes.
Other books
Aikman, David, Jesus in Beijing: How Christianity Is Transforming China and Changing the Global Balance of Power. (Review)
Bays, Daniel H., Christianity in China from the Eighteenth Century to the Present. (Review)
Bays, Daniel H. and Ellen Widmer, eds., China’s Christian Colleges.
Bays, Daniel H., A New History of Christianity in China.
Broomhall, A.J., The Shaping of Modern China: Hudson Taylor’s Life and Legacy, two volumes (a reprint of the original seven-volume Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century). (Review)
Cao, Nanlai, Constructing China’s Jerusalem: Christians, Power, and Place in Contemporary Wenzhou.
Chang, Lit-sen, Asia’s Religions: Christianity’s Momentous Encounter with Paganism, translated by Samuel Ling. (Review)
Charbonnier, Jean-Pierre, Christians in China: A.D. 600 to 2000. (Review)
Dunch, Ryan, Fuzhou Protestants and the Making of a Modern China, 1857-1927.
Faries, Naathan, The "Inscrutably Chinese": Church How Narratives and Nationalism Continue to Divide Christianity.
Flynt, Wayne, and Gerald W. Berkley, Taking Christianity to China: Alabama Missionaries in the Middle Kingdom, 1850-1950.
Girardot, Norman J., The Victorian Translation of China: James Legge’s Oriental Pilgrimage.
Griffiths, Valerie, Not Less than Everything: The courageous women who carried the Christian gospel to China.
Hamrin, Carol Lee, God and Caesar in China: Policy Implications of Church-State Tensions.
Hancock, Christopher, Robert Morrison and the Birth of Chinese Protestantism. (Review)
Harvey, Thomas Alan, Acquainted with Grief: Wang Mingdao’s Stand for the Persecuted church in China. (Review)
Huang, Paulos, Confronting Confucian Understandings of the Christian Doctrine of Salvation (Studies in Systematic Theology). (Review)
Keating, John Craig William, A Protestant Church in Communist China: Moore Memorial Church in Shanghai, 1949-1989.
Ku, Wei-yang and Loen De Ridder, eds., Authentic Chinese Christianity: Preludes to its Development.
Lai, Pan-chiu and Jason Lam, eds., Sino-Christian Theology.
Lambert, Tony, China’s Christian Millions.
Lian, Xi. Redeemed by fire: The Rise of Popular Christianity in Modern China. (Review)
Liao, Yiwu, God is Red.
Ling, Samuel, Chinese Intellectuals and the Gospel.
Lutz, Jessie, Opening China: Karl F.A. Gützlaff and Sino-Western Relations, 1827-1852. (Review)
Moffett, Samuel Hugh, A History of Christianity in Asia, two volumes. (Review)
Ng, Peter Tze Ming, Chinese Christianity: An Interplay between Global and Local Perspectives.
Ruokanen, Mikka, and Paulos Huang, eds., Christianity and Chinese Culture. (Review)
Standaert, N., and R. G. Tiedemann, eds., Handbook of Christianity in China: 1800 to the Present.
Uhalley, Stephen, and Xiaoxin Wu, China and Christianity: Burdened Past, Hopeful Future. (Review)
Xin, Yalin, Inside China’s House Church Network: The Word of Life Movement and Its Renewing Dynamic. (Review)
Yang Huilin and Daniel H. N. Yeung, eds., Sino-Christian Studies in China.
Yeo, Khiok-khng (K.K.), Musing with Confucius and Paul: Toward a Chinese Christian Theology.
Yeo, Khiok-khng, (K.D.), What Has Jerusalem to do with Beijing?: Biblical Interpretation from a Chinese Perspective.
Religion in China and East Asia
Ashiwa, Yoshiko, and David L. Wank. 2009. Making Religion, Making the State: The Politics of Religion in Modern China. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press.
Chang, Lit-sen, Asia’s Religions: Christianity’s Momentous Encounter with Paganism, translated by Samuel Ling.
Chau, Adam Yuet. 2006. Miraculous Response: Doing Popular Religion in Contemporary China. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press.
Goossaert, Vincent, and David A. Palmer, The Religious Question in Modern China.
Lumsdaine, David Halloran. Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Asia.
Mayfair Mei-hui Yang. 2008. Chinese Religiosities: Afflictions of Modernity and State Formation. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Nedostup, Rebecca. 2009. Superstitious Regimes: Religion and the Politics of Chinese modernity. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Asia Center.
Poceski, Mario, Introducing Chinese Religions. (Review)
Von Glahn, Richard, The Sinister Way: The Divine and the Demonic in Chinese Religious Culture. (Review)
Yang, Fenggang, and Joseph B. Tamney. 2005. State, Market, and Religions in Chinese Societies. Religion and the social order, v. 11. Leiden: Brill.
Yang, Fenggang, Religion in China: Survival and Revival under Communist Rule.
Yang, Fenggang, Confucianism and Spiritual Traditions in Modern China and Beyond (Religion in Chinese Societies)