Christianity in China

Daniel H. Bays is Professor of History at the University of Kansas.

"This work is unique in that it subjects the history of Christianity in China to rigorous historical investigation. No other work on the subject can compare even remotely with it in depth and breadth of documentation and in analysis. The papers all reflect original research in sources seldom or never used before, and they are as much concerned with social history as with religious history. The volume is a benchmark work on Christian life in China in the context of a changing indigenous society."—K. C. Liu, University of California, Davis "Unique in that it subjects the history of Christianity in China to rigorous historical investigation. . . . A benchmark work."—K.C. Liu, University of California, Davis "Together the essays offer a rich view of one of China's smallest minorities: Christians. . . . The book is highly recommended for all those interested in modern China, international relations, women's issues, religion in China, and cross-cultural studies."—American Historical Review "An outstanding collection."—China Review International "One can only praise the considerable stengths of this collection: its breadth, freshness, and collaboration that make it a first-rate work in its field. . . . This will be a standard reference for anyone interested in understanding the remakable development of Christianity in China."—Church History "This book prepares the way for a new stage of scholarship about the interaction between Chinese and foreign ideas and institutions."—Journal of Asian Studies "These twenty superb studies . . . are all meticulously reserched and lucidly written pieces, a rare feat for a collective work, and a credit to Bays."—Journal of the American Academy of Religion

• Part I. Christianity and the Dynamics of Qing Society: 1. Catholics and society in eighteenth-century Sichuan Robert E. Entenmann; 2. Catholic converts in Jiangxi province: conflict and accommodation, 1860-1900 Alan Richard Sweeten; 3. Rural religion and village organization in North China: the Catholic challenge in the late nineteenth century Charles A. Litzinger; 4. Twilight of the Gods in the Chinese countryside: Christians, Confucians and the modernizing state, 1861-1911 Roger R. Thompson; 5. Christian missionary as Confucian intellectual: Gilbert Reid (1857-1927) and the Reform Movement in the late qing Tsou Mingeth; 6. The politics of evangelism at the end of the Qing: Nanchang, 1906 Ernest P. Young; Part II. Christianity and Ethnicity: 7. From Barbarians to sinners: collective conversion among plains aborigines in Qing Taiwan, 1859-1895 John R. Shepherd; 8. Christianity and the Hua Miao: writing and power Norma Diamond; 9. Christianity and Hakka identity Nicole Constable; Part III. Christianity and Chinese Women: 10. Christian virgins in eighteenth-century Sichuan Robert E. Entenmann; 11. Chinese women and Protestant Christianity at the turn of the twentieth-century Kwok Pui-Lan; 12. Cradle of female talent: the McTyeire home and school for girls, 1892-1937 Heidi A. Ross; 13. An oasis in a heathen land: St. Hilda's school for girls, Wuchang, 1928-1936 Judith Liu and Donald P. Kelly; 14. Christianity, feminism, and communism: the life and times of Deng Yuzhi Emily Honig; Part IV. The Rise of an Indigenous Chinese Christianity: 15. Karl Gutzlaff's approach to indigenization: the Chinese union Jessie G. Lutz and R. Ray Lutz; 16. Contextualizing Protestant publishing in China: the Wenshe, 1924-1928 Peter Chen-Main Wang; 17. The growth of independent Christianity in China, 1900-1937 Daniel H. Bays; 18. Toward independence: Christianity in China under the Japanese occupation, 1937-1945 Timothy Brook; 19. Y. T. Wu: a Christian leader under communism Gao Wangzhi; 20. Holy spirit Taiwan: Pentecostal and charismatic Christianity in the republic of China Murray A. Rubinstein; Appendices; Index.