Abstract
Seventy percent of the world's Christmas decorations are produced in China, and many Chinese now view the festival as an unofficial holiday. On 25 December, in cities across the country, shopping malls are fes tooned with Christmas trees. In the new China, Christianity is a source of fascination, almost a craze, yet its precise nature remains a puzzle.... University students sport crosses and join Bible groups. Smart new churches in Chinese cities are packed on Sundays... . Television soaps imported from South Korea, where 30 per cent of the population is Christian, offer a Christian lifestyle with an Asian accent, which is as eagerly consumed and copied in China as Korean pop music and fash ion. At the same time, American missionaries, employed as cheap teach ers of English at Chinese universities since religious controls were relaxed in the 1980s, discreetly promote the religion.'
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