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  • Christians in the City of Shanghai

    A History Resurrected Above the Sea

    by Susangeline Y. Patrick ...
    Series series Christians in the City: Studies in Contemporary Global Christianity
    Examining the stories of diverse Christians in Shanghai, this book uses the city as a model to highlight how a minority religion in a city has interacted with other religions as well as social, cultural, political, and economic changes.Susangeline Y. Patrick illustrates how the history of Shanghai Christians sheds light on why and how Christians have accommodated social and political changes, and ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Interreligious and Global Perspectives of Christian Art in China and Taiwan, 1552–1650

    by Susangeline Y. Patrick ...
    This book considers how European and Asian Christian missionaries communicated religious doctrine through the visual arts in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Greater China.Zooming in on these rich cross-cultural and inter-religious artifacts, Susangeline Patrick reveals how Christian images and visual culture reflected, interacted with, and influenced spiritual and sociopolitical powers during ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

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  • The Virgin Mary and Catholic Identities in Chinese History

    by Hong Kong University Press ...
    The Chinese Catholic Church traces its living roots back to the late sixteenth century and its historical roots back even further, to the Yuan dynasty. This book explores paintings and sculptures of the Virgin Mary and the communities that produced them over several centuries. It argues for the emergence of distinctly Chinese Catholic identities as artistic representations of the Virgin Mary, at ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • China's Saints

    Catholic Martyrdom During the Qing (1644–1911)

    by Anthony E. Clark ...
    Series series Studies in Christianity in East Asia
    While previous works on the history of Christianity in China have largely centered on the scientific and philosophical areas of Catholic missions in the Middle Kingdom, China's Saints recounts the history of Christian martyrdom, precipitated as it was by cultural antagonisms and misunderstanding. Anthony Clark shows that Christianity in China began and grew under similar circumstances to those ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • Heaven in Conflict

    Franciscans and the Boxer Uprising in Shanxi

    by Anthony E. Clark ...
    One of the most violent episodes of China’s Boxer Uprising was the Taiyuan Massacre of 1900, in which rebels killed foreign missionaries and thousands of Chinese Christians. This first sustained scholarly account of the uprising to focus on Shanxi Province illuminates the religious and cultural beliefs on both sides of the conflict and shows how they came to clash.Although Franciscans were the ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • China and Christianity

    Burdened Past, Hopeful Future

    by Stephen Uhalley, Xiaoxin Wu ...
    This collection offers fresh perspectives on Sino-Western cultural relations, with particular regard to the experience of Christianity in China. The contributors include authorities from China (including Hong Kong and Taiwan), Europe (including Russia and Eastern Europe), and North America. ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Christian Heretics in Late Imperial China

    Christian Inculturation and State Control, 1720-1850

    by Lars Peter Laamann ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    Following the prohibition of missionary activity after 1724, China's Christians were effectively cut off from all foreign theological guidance. The ensuing isolation forced China's Christian communities to become self-reliant in perpetuating the basic principles of their faith. Left to their own devices, the missionary seed developed into a panoply of indigenous traditions, with Christian ancestry ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • God Is Red

    The Secret Story of How Christianity Survived and Flourished in Communist China

    by Liao Yiwu ...
    Translated by Wen Huang ...
    "A journalistic chronicle of how Christians survived the repressive Mao era as well as a glimpse into why their numbers are rising." — The Christian Science MonitorA Books & Culture Best Book of the YearWhen journalist Liao Yiwu first stumbled upon a vibrant Christian community in officially atheistic China, he knew little about Christianity. In fact, he'd been taught that religion was evil, and ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Jesus in Beijing

    How Christianity Is Transforming China And Changing the Global Balance of Power

    by David Aikman ...
    This book details the great unreported story of the Chinese giant, its enormously rapid conversion to Christianity, and what this change means to the global balance of power. ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Mission to China

    Matteo Ricci and the Jesuit Encounter with the East

    by Mary Laven ...
    In the sixteenth century, the vast and sophisticated empire of China lay almost entirely unknown to Western travellers. As global trade expanded, this land of reputedly boundless wealth, pale-faced women, and indecipherable tongues began to feed the fantasies of European merchants and adventurers. The Catholic Church, meanwhile, saw in this great people millions of souls who would be damned unless ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • A New History of Christianity in China

    by Daniel H. Bays ...
    Series Book 7 - Wiley Blackwell Guides to Global Christianity
    A New History of Christianity in China, written by one of the world's the leading writers on Christianity in China, looks at Christianity's long history in China, its extraordinarily rapid rise in the last half of the twentieth century, and charts its future direction.Provides the first comprehensive history of Christianity in China, an important, understudied area in both Asian studies and ... Read more

    $53.99 CAD

  • What Remains

    Coming to Terms with Civil War in 19th Century China

    by Tobie Meyer-Fong ...
    The Taiping Rebellion was one of the costliest civil wars in human history. Many millions of people lost their lives. Yet while the Rebellion has been intensely studied by scholars in China and elsewhere, we still know little of how individuals coped with these cataclysmic events.Drawing upon a rich array of primary sources, What Remains explores the issues that preoccupied Chinese and Western ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD