A new history of Christianity in China

Abstract

Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. The Nestorian and the Mongol Mission, 635-1368 4 2. The Jesuit Mission of Early Modern Times and Its Fate 17 3. Protestant Beginnings, Catholics Redux, and China's First Indigenous Christians, 1800-1860 41 4. Expansion and Institution-building in a Declining Dynasty, 1860-1902 66 5. The Golden Age of Missions and the Sino-Foreign Protestant Establishment, 1902-1927 92 6. The Multiple Crises of Chinese Christianity, 1927-1950 121 7. Christianity and the New China, 1950-1966 158 8. The Chinese Church from the End of the Cultural Revolution to the Early Twenty-first Century 183 Appendix: The Russian Orthodox Church and Ecclesiastical Mission in China 209 Bibliography 217 Index 229