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This is a pioneering study of the impact of Christianization among the Chinese. Focusing primarily on the minority peoples of Yunnan province, it nonetheless fully mirrors the historical development of the Protestant mission in China.
Drawing on many years of observation in the field and upon a comprehensive consultation of official documents relating to Christians on the mountain peaks, the study chronicles how the early foreign missionaries, thanks to their self-sacrifice and the examples they set of religious zeal, cemented the hitherto segregatory and leaderless tribes together, vigorously shaking the desolate mountain folk out of their age-long isolation. It was the trend of the time to identify Christianity as the desirable agent to promote socio-economic change in the undeveloped communities.
This is a timely original contribution to the historical study of the Christian missionary enterprise and the pressing problem of freedom of worship that currently exists in China.
Drawing on many years of observation in the field and upon a comprehensive consultation of official documents relating to Christians on the mountain peaks, the study chronicles how the early foreign missionaries, thanks to their self-sacrifice and the examples they set of religious zeal, cemented the hitherto segregatory and leaderless tribes together, vigorously shaking the desolate mountain folk out of their age-long isolation. It was the trend of the time to identify Christianity as the desirable agent to promote socio-economic change in the undeveloped communities.
This is a timely original contribution to the historical study of the Christian missionary enterprise and the pressing problem of freedom of worship that currently exists in China.
Price: $149.00
Pages: 164
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Studies in Christian Mission
Publication Date:
01 January 1993
ISBN: 9789004097230
Format: Other
'...informative, fluent, well documented, and at times inspiring.'
E. Theodore Bachmann, Missiology, 1993.
'This work is carefully researched and fully documented.'
James D. Chancellor, Review & Expositor, 1994.
'...ce cas est un bon révélateur des courages et des périls du christianisme chinois actuel. Avec son champ bien précis, sa multiplicité de faits concrets, sa finesse d'analyse, cette étude est un modèle de monographie sérieuse et utile. Des annexes documentaires, une bibliographie et un index complètent le volume.’
J. Masson, S.J., Nouvelle Revue Théologique, 1994.
E. Theodore Bachmann, Missiology, 1993.
'This work is carefully researched and fully documented.'
James D. Chancellor, Review & Expositor, 1994.
'...ce cas est un bon révélateur des courages et des périls du christianisme chinois actuel. Avec son champ bien précis, sa multiplicité de faits concrets, sa finesse d'analyse, cette étude est un modèle de monographie sérieuse et utile. Des annexes documentaires, une bibliographie et un index complètent le volume.’
J. Masson, S.J., Nouvelle Revue Théologique, 1994.
T'ien Ju-K'ang is Professor of History and Head of the Sociology Department, Fudan University, Shanghai. Publications: Religious Cults of the Tai Tribe of the Yunnan-Burma Frontier, (1987). Male Anxiety and Female Chastity: A Comparative Study of Chinese Ethical Values in Ming-Ch'ing Times, (Brill, 1988).