-Bibliography-
Books:
Aikman, David. Jesus In Beijing. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing Inc., 2003.
David Aikman, Former Time magazine Beijing bureau chief, spent more than two decades working with Time, and part of this experience involved multiple visits to China, eventually bringing him into contact with Chinese Christian leaders of the unregistered churches(aka "house churches"). The book is a work of reporting, and Aikman writes about personal interviews with house church leaders from the Cultural Revolution such as Wang Mingdao, Allen Yuan, Samuel Lamb, Moses Xie, and Li Tianen. |
Bays, Daniel H. A New History of Christianity in China. Singapore: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
This is shortest single volume survey work and most complete introduction to the history of Christianity in China. Each chapter sketches an overview of Christian activity in China during a different era of China's history. 1) The Nestorian Age and the Mongol Mission, 635-1368. 2) The Jesuit Mission of Early Modern Times and Its Fate. 3) Protestant Beginnings, Catholic Redux, and China's First Indigenous Christians, 1800-1860. 4) Expansion and Institution Building in a Declining Dynasty, 1860-1902. 5) The "Golden Age" of Missions and the "Sino-Foreign Protestant Establishment," 1902-1927. 6) The Multiple Crisis of Chinese Christianity, 1927-1950. 7) Christianity and the New China, 1950-1966. 8) The Chinese Church from the End of the Cultural Revolution to the Early Twenty-first Century |
Khiok-khng, Yeo. Chairman Mao meets the Apostle Paul: Christianity, Communism, and the Hope of China. Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2002.
K.K. Yeo offers a critical analysis of the ideological crossover and contentions between Maoism, Marxism, and the writings of the Apostle Paul with respect to divergent perspectives on history, utopia, and eschatology. |
Lambert, Tony. China's Christian Millions. United Kingdom: OMF(Overseas Mission Fellowship, 2006.
Lambert traces the growth of the Chinese Church through the post-Cultural Revolution era, beginning in the late 1970s, showing the remarkable numerical shift: Christianity has seen explosive growth since the Cultural Revolution. Lambert shows the data and weaves the narrative of this growth. |
Lian, Xi. Redeemed by Fire: The Rise of Popular Christianity in Modern China. New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2010.
Lian Xi, history professor at Hanover College writes the first survey history of Christianity in modern China. Chapter Nine discussed the recent history of the church during the cultural revolution. |
Liao, Yiwu. God is Red: the Secret Story of how Christianity Survived and Flourished in Communist China. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2011.
Liao, a prominent human rights reporter, interviews Chinese Christians in China’s countryside. One of the most outspoken writers in China today, he has done investigative reporting on the history of Human Rights abuses in Communist China, documenting memories of government abuses both past and present. These anecdotes represent a rare glimpse into the history of Christianity in the Cultural Revolution. |
Spence, Jonathan D. Mao Zedong. New York: Viking, 1999.
Spence, a recognized historian of East Asian history chronicles the life of Mao Zedong from his humble origins in rural China, to the Long March, the founding of the Peoples Republic of China in 1949, the disasters of the Great Leap Forward, and Cultural Revolution. |
Wickeri, Philip L., "The Abolition of Religion in Yunnan: Wang Zhiming," in Chandler, Andrew. The Terrible Alternative: Christian Martyrdom in the Twentieth Century. London: Cassell, 1998.
Andrew Chandler chronicles the lives of the Westminster Ten pictured above, with one chapter dedicated to the life of Wang Zhiming. |
Yang, Jisheng. Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962. Trans. Stacy Mosher and Guo Jian. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.
Yang Jisheng's father was a victim of famine during the famines following the Great Leap Forward. Although Yang long believed that his father's death was simply part of tragedy of a natural disaster, the book chronicles his attempt to seek closure by finding the true history of what caused the famine, namely gross negligence or ignorance(at best) on the part of Communist Party leadership. |
Journal Articles:
Bays, Daniel. "American Public Discourse on the Church in China." China Review 9 no. 2(2009), 1-16. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23462277
Bays comments on the uncritical nature of American discourse about China, discussing popular autobiographies, the TSP vs. house churches divide, and general American misunderstanding of the Chinese Christian movement today.
Bays comments on the uncritical nature of American discourse about China, discussing popular autobiographies, the TSP vs. house churches divide, and general American misunderstanding of the Chinese Christian movement today.
Dunch, Ryan. “Worshipping Under the Communist Eye.” Christian History and Biography, 98,
(2008): 14-18.
This article focuses on the development and history of the unified church in China starting in the 1930’s and the effect of the Great Depression on missionary funding, to the emergence of a National Church in 1978 following the death of Mao Zedong in 1976. This article may be helpful in understanding the history of the church in China and also how various factors affected the missionaries being sent to China at this time.
(2008): 14-18.
This article focuses on the development and history of the unified church in China starting in the 1930’s and the effect of the Great Depression on missionary funding, to the emergence of a National Church in 1978 following the death of Mao Zedong in 1976. This article may be helpful in understanding the history of the church in China and also how various factors affected the missionaries being sent to China at this time.
Fuk-Tsang, Ying . “The CPC’s Policy on Protestant Christianity, 1949-1957: an overview and assessment.” Journal of Contemporary China, 23, no. 89. (2014) : 884-901. doi: 10.1080/10670564.2014.882565
Fuk-Tsang Ying investigates the CPC’s Policy on Protestant Christianity from 1949-1957, giving particular attention to how the CPC chose between ‘struggle’ and ‘unity’ when dealing with Protestant Christians amidst difficult political situations and various ideological constraints. It will be important to understand the factors that influenced CPC’s policy on Protestant Christianity and how those factors (such as ideology) made a difference in the relationship between the Protestant leaders and the government.
Fuk-Tsang Ying investigates the CPC’s Policy on Protestant Christianity from 1949-1957, giving particular attention to how the CPC chose between ‘struggle’ and ‘unity’ when dealing with Protestant Christians amidst difficult political situations and various ideological constraints. It will be important to understand the factors that influenced CPC’s policy on Protestant Christianity and how those factors (such as ideology) made a difference in the relationship between the Protestant leaders and the government.
Fuk-Tsang, Ying “The Regional Development of Protestant Christianity in China: 1918, 1949 and 2004.” China Review, 9, no. 2 (2009), pp. 63-97. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23462280.
Sanneh, Lamin. “Prospects for Post-Western Christianity in Asia and Elsewhere.” Brown
Journal of World Affairs, 12, no. 2. (2006) : 117-128.
Lamin Sanneh explores and analyzes the the cultural diversity and renewal of Christianity in China. He examines the history of Christianity in China, looking closely at the collaboration between the Chinese Protestant leaders with the government under the leadership of Mao Zedong.
Journal of World Affairs, 12, no. 2. (2006) : 117-128.
Lamin Sanneh explores and analyzes the the cultural diversity and renewal of Christianity in China. He examines the history of Christianity in China, looking closely at the collaboration between the Chinese Protestant leaders with the government under the leadership of Mao Zedong.
Schoenhals, Michael. “Demonising Discourse in Mao Zedong’s China: People vs. Non-People.”
Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions, 8, no. 3. (2007) : 465-482. doi: 10.1080/14690760701571114
Michael Schoenhals examines the use of demonising rhetoric by the CCP, especially during the Cultural Revolution. Although Michael does not mention Protestant Christianity directly in his research, understanding Mao Zedong and the CCP’s strategic discourse and how their ideology affected the overall population in China forms a contextual understanding of the CCP during the Cultural Revolution, and how that affected Protestant Christianity.
Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions, 8, no. 3. (2007) : 465-482. doi: 10.1080/14690760701571114
Michael Schoenhals examines the use of demonising rhetoric by the CCP, especially during the Cultural Revolution. Although Michael does not mention Protestant Christianity directly in his research, understanding Mao Zedong and the CCP’s strategic discourse and how their ideology affected the overall population in China forms a contextual understanding of the CCP during the Cultural Revolution, and how that affected Protestant Christianity.