The Catholic Church in Taiwan : Problems and Prospects

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 atten-
tion, 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 tremendous 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 provincial 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 backgrounds.
Under the influence of globalization, it is entirely necessary to emphasize
the inter-cultural dimension of the monographs 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.