Christianity in China: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present. Edited by Daniel H. Bays. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. xxii, 483 pp.

Abstract

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.