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What's Happening to Christians in China?, in The Christian Century » Read Now
by Ann Martin, Myrrl Byler. 7 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...This struggle to make Christianity Chinese is rooted in Chinas experience of...even a short stay in China one learns that the...views the practice of Christianity and other...
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Success or Failure? Christianity in China, in History Today » Read Now
by Xinzhong Yao. 4 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...Success or failure? Christianity in China. by Xinzhong Yao...beginning of another decline of Christianity in China. By the middle of the 1950s...with the previous period...
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The Spirit of Chinese Culture (Chap. 1 "Christianity and Chinese Culture") » Read Now
by Francis C. M. Wei. 188 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library
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China Unbound: Evolving Perspectives on the Chinese Past (Chap. 4 "Boxers, Christians, and the Gods: The Boxer Conflict of 1900 as a Religious War") » Read Now
by Paul A. Cohen. 228 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

This volume contains a number of articles on modern Chinese History and historiography written by one of the leading academic experts on the subject. The author provides a critique of older approaches to nineteenth-century history and offers powerful reinterpretations of such key events in the recent history of China.
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World Christianity and Marxism (Chap. Ten "China") » Read Now
by Denis R. Janz. 192 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

Denis Janz argues that the encounter with Marxism has been the defining event for twentieth century Christianity. No other worldview shook Christianity more dramatically and no other movement had as profound an impact on so many. Now the Cold War is over and as we approach the end of the century we...
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Denis Janz argues that the encounter with Marxism has been the defining event for twentieth century Christianity. No other worldview shook Christianity more dramatically and no other movement had as profound an impact on so many. Now the Cold War is over and as we approach the end of the century we need, Janz says, to ask ourselves what happened. This book is the first unified and comprehensive attempt to analyze this historic meeting between these two antagonistic worlds of thought and action. The intellectual foundation of this antagonism is to be found in Karl Marx himself, and thus the book begins with an account of Marx's assault on Christianity. All the diverse philosophical and political manifestations of Marxism were ultimately rooted in Marx's thought, and supporters based their greater or lesser hostilities toward Christianity on their reading of his critique. Janz follows this with an overview of Christian responses to Marx, extending from the mid-19th century to the onset of the Cold War. He argues that within this time frame Christianity's negation of Marx was not absolute; the loud "no" to Marx bore with it an important, if muted, "yes." With this intellectual groundwork in place, Janz turns to an examination of the encounter as it unfolded in specific national contexts: the United States, the Soviet Union, Poland, Nicaragua, Cuba, China, and Albania. The experiences of these countries varied widely, from Poland where Christianity maintained its strongest independence, to Nicaragua where a Christian alliance with Marxism contributed to revolutionary change, to Albania where a Stalinist government attempted to abolish religion entirely. From this survey emerges the evidence that world Christianity has clearly internalized some of the prominent features of its antagonist, suggesting that the "Marxist project" is not as utterly defunct as many have assumed.
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The Dilemma of Accommodation: Reconciling Christianity and Chinese Culture in the 1920s, in The Historian » Read Now
by Xiaoqun Xu. 18 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...was abolished, while in China, the Qing emperors proscribed Christianity.(8) Bridgmans condescending...Chinese Union," in Christianity in China: From the...
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The Overseas Chinese Networks and Early Baptist Missionary Movement across the South China Sea, in The Historian » Read Now
by Joseph Tse-Hei Lee. 16 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...Eighteenth-Century Sichuan," in Christianity in China: From the Eighteenth Century...Indigenization: The Chinese Union" in Christianity in China, ed. Bayes, 269-91...
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Becoming Chinese: Passages to Modernity and Beyond (Chap. Five "Hierarchical Modernization: Tianjin's Gong Shang College as a Model for Catholic Community in North China") » Read Now
by Wen-Hsin Yeh. 435 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

Becoming Chinese evaluates the dual roles of war and modernity in the transformation of twentieth-century Chinese identity. The contributors, all leading researchers, argue that war, no less than revolution, deserves attention as a major force in the making of twentieth-century Chinese history, and...
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Becoming Chinese evaluates the dual roles of war and modernity in the transformation of twentieth-century Chinese identity. The contributors, all leading researchers, argue that war, no less than revolution, deserves attention as a major force in the making of twentieth-century Chinese history, and that modernity in material culture and changes in intellectual consciousness are to serve as twin foci of a new wave of scholarly analysis. Examining in particular the rise of modern Chinese cities and the making of the Chinese nation-state, the contributors to this interdisciplinary volume of cultural history provide new ways of thinking about China's modern transformation up to the 1950s. The essays demonstrate that the combined effect of a modernizing state and an industrializing economy weakened the Chinese bourgeoisie and undercut the individual's quest for autonomy.
Drawing upon new archival sources, these theoretically informed, thoroughly revisionist essays focus on topics such as Western-inspired modernity, urban cosmopolitanism, consumer culture, gender relationships, interchanges between city and countryside, and the growing impact of the state on the lives of individuals. Becoming Chinese makes an important contribution toward a postsocialist understanding of twentieth-century China.
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A History of the Expansion of Christianity, Vol. 7 (Chap. XIII "China General Conditions") » Read Now
by Kenneth Scott Latourette. 562 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...Indies, and China. In all these...clear that Christianity was taking...multiform and in many lands...frontiers of Christianity, notably...India, China, and Japan...like...
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Readings on Church and State ("Religion and the State in China: Winter Is Past" begins on p. 337) » Read Now
by James E. Wood. 440 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...the Soviet Union BOHDAN R. BOCIURKIW 303 The Status of Christianity in Albania JANICE A. BROUN 319 Religion and the State in China: Winter Is Past JAMES E. JR. WOOD 337...
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China in the Sixteenth Century: The Journals of Matthew Ricci, 1583-1610 » Read Now
by Matteo Ricci. 616 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...432 1. China Becomes an...4. Christianity in Nancian...classes of China, over a period...resulted in a permanent foundation of Christianity. How he and...stability of...
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Death Throes of a Dynasty: Letters and Diaries of Charles and Bessie Ewing, Missionaries to China » Read Now
by E. G. Ruoff. 280 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...missionaries in China were women...organizations in America...believed that Christianity was responsible...modernization and Christianity. British...fervor. China...
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Religion in Postwar China: A Critical Analysis and Annotated Bibliography » Read Now
by David C. Yu. 370 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

This book discusses selected works on Chinese religion in the People's Republic of China (PRC) published since World War II. The work begins with brief overviews of religion in premodern and modern China, first by scholars in China, and then as understood by Western scholars. The bulk of the book...
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This book discusses selected works on Chinese religion in the People's Republic of China (PRC) published since World War II. The work begins with brief overviews of religion in premodern and modern China, first by scholars in China, and then as understood by Western scholars. The bulk of the book consists of 1,005 annotated bibliographic entries--works by Chinese writers from the PRC and Western writers from East Asia, North America, and Europe. Though many entries deal with pre-1970 China, the emphasis is on the past two decades, which have been the most productive in the history of Western publications. The inclusion of some 200 entries for this time period by authors from China makes this an important work for students and scholars in contemporary Chinese religion.
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