Christianity in Modern China : Birth, Growth and Development

This series addresses Christianity in China from the time of the late
Ming and early Qing dynasties to the present.It includes a number of
disciplines—history, political science, theology, religious studies, gender
studies and sociology. Not only is the series inter-disciplinary, it also
encourages inter-­ religious dialogue. It covers the presence of the Catholic
Church, the Protestant Churches and the Orthodox Church in China.
While Chinese Protestant Churches have attracted much scholarly and
journalistic attention, there is much unknown about the Catholic Church
and the Orthodox Church in China. There is an enormous demand for
monographs on the Chinese Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church.
This series captures the breathtaking phenomenon of the rapid expansion
of Chinese Christianity on the one hand, and the long awaited need to
reveal the reality and the development of Chinese Catholicism and the
Orthodox religion on the other. Christianity in China reflects on the tre-
mendous importance of Chinese-foreign relations. The series touches on
many levels of research—the life of a single Christian in a village, a city
parish, the conflicts between converts in a province, the policy of the pro-
vincial authority and state-to-state relations. It concerns the influence of
different cultures on Chinese soil—the American, the French, the Italian,
the Portuguese and so on. Contributors of the series include not only
people from the academia but journalists and professional writers as well.
The series would stand out as a collective effort of authors from different
countries and back grounds. Under the influence of globalization, it is
entirely necessary to emphasize the inter-cultural dimension of the mono-
graphs of the series. With Christianity being questioned in the Western
world, as witnessed in the popularity of Dan Brown’s books since some
time ago, the Chinese have surprised the world by their embracement of
this foreign religion.