Christianity in China
豆瓣
From the Eighteenth Century to the Present
Daniel H. Bays
简介
This pathbreaking volume will force a reassessment of many common assumptions about the relationship between Christianity and modern China. The overall thrust of the twenty essays is that despite the conflicts and tension that often have characterized relations between Christianity and China, in fact Christianity has been, for the past two centuries or more, putting down roots within Chinese society, and it is still in the process of doing so. Thus Christianity is here interpreted not just as a Western religion that imposed itself on China, but one that was becoming a Chinese religion, as Buddhism did centuries ago.
Eschewing the usual focus on foreign missionaries, as is customary, this research effort is China-centered, drawing on Chinese sources, including government and organizational documents, private papers, and interviews. The essays are organized into four major sections: Christianity’s role in Qing society, including local conflicts (6 essays); ethnicity (3 essays); women (5 essays); and indigenization of the Christian effort (6 essays). The editor has provided sectional introductions to highlight the major themes in each section, as well as a general Introduction.
目录
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.