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Book SynopsisAmong the assumptions interrogated in this volume, edited by Anthony E. Clark, is if Christianity should most accurately be identified as “Chinese” when it displays vestiges of Chinese cultural aesthetics, or whether Chinese Christianity is more indigenous when it is allowed to form its own theological framework. In other words, can theological uniqueness also function as a legitimate Chinese Christian cultural expression in the formation of its own ecclesial identity? Also central to what is explored in this book is how missionary influences, consciously or unconsciously, introduced seeds of independence into the cultural ethos of China’s Christian community. Chinese girls who pushed “the limits of proper behaviour,” for example, added to the larger sense of confidence as China’s Christians began to resist the model of Christianity they had inherited from foreign missionaries. Contributors are: Robert E. Carbonneau, CP, Christie Chui-Shan Chow, Amanda C. R. Clark, Lydia Gerber, Joseph W. Ho, Joseph Tse-hei Lee, Audrey Seah, Jean-Paul Wiest, and Xiaoxin Wu.
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Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: China’s Christianity’ and the Ideal of a Universal Church Anthony E. Clark Chapter 1: Christianity Along the Warpath: The Anti-Christian Movement in Shantou during the Eastern Expedition (1925) Joseph Tse-hei Lee Chapter 2: Imaging Missions, Visualizing Experience: American Presbyterian Photography, Filmmaking, and Chinese Christianity in Republican China Joseph W. Ho Chapter 3: The 1670 Chinese Missal: A Struggle for Indigenization Amidst the Chinese Rites Controversy Audrey Seah Chapter 4: Sealing Fate and Changing Course: French Catholicism and Chinese Conversion Anthony E. Clark Chapter 5: Testing the Limits of Proper Behavior: Women Students in and beyond the Weimar Mission Schools in Qingdao 1905-1914 Lydia Gerber Chapter 6: Father Leonard Amrhein, CP: Missionary Zeal and Shared Experience of Suffering and Compassion with Chinese Catholics in Wartime and late Twentieth-Century China Robert E. Carbonneau Chapter 7: Adjustment and Advocacy: Charles McCarthy, SJ, and China’s Jesuit Mission in Transition Amanda C. R. Clark Chapter 8: Indigenizing the Prophetess: Toward a Chinese Denominational Practice Christie Chui-Shan Chow Chapter 9: The Making of a Chinese Church: As Lived by Chinese Christians Jean-Paul Wiest Chapter 10: Rapid Progress and Remarkable Accomplishments: Study of Christianity in China by a New Generation of Chinese Scholars Wu Xiaoxin Bibliography Index
