"This book takes a new look at the impacts of Christianity in the late-nineteenth-century China. Using American Baptist and English Presbyterian examples in Guangdong province, it examines the scale of Chinese conversions, the creation of Christian villages, and the power relations between Christians and non-Christians, and between different Christian denominations. This book is based on a very comprehensive foundation of data. By supplementing the Protestant missionary and Chinese archival materials with fieldwork data that were collected in several Christian villages, this study not only highlights the inner dynamics of Chinese Christianity but also explores a variety of crisis management strategies employed by missionaries, Christian converts, foreign diplomats and Chinese officials in local politics."--publisher note.

"處境與視野:潮汕中外交流的光影記憶"記錄了近代潮汕地區的現代化經驗,是當地社會與西方文明相遇下所呈現的影像資料.這些來自西方教會和私人手中的照片,往往保留了個人對當地的記憶,與潮汕人民的友誼,對地方文化風俗的好奇,以及對當地物質與精神文化的貢獻.這些照片不僅是一份獨特的文獻,其所涉及的題材廣泛,所橫跨的歷史時段廣闊,所記錄的人情深厚,處處顯示了攝影者對當地社會和教會情感上的高度投入"--OCLC record note.

Introduction: Recasting Minority Politics in China / Siu-Keung Cheung, Joseph Tse-Hei Lee, Lida V. Nedilsky -- Reaching out for the Ladder of Success: "Outsiders" and the Civil Examination in Late Imperial China / Wing-Kin Puk -- Banditry, Marginality, and Survival among the Laboring Poor in Late Imperial South China / Robert J. Antony -- Politics of Faith: Christian Activism and the Maoist State in South China / Joseph Tse-Hei Lee -- The Transnational Redress Campaign for Chinese Survivors of Wartime Sexual Violence in Shanxi Province / Yuki Terazawa -- The Chinese Underclass and Organized Crime as a Stepladder of Social Ascent / Ming Xia -- Feminisation, Recognition and the Cosmological in Xishuangbanna / Anouska Komlosy -- Re-Presenting Women's Identities: Recognition and Representation of Rural Chinese Women / Sharon R. Wesoky -- "This Is My Mother's Land!" An Indigenous Woman Speaks Out / Siu-Keung Cheung -- Making Rights Claims Visible: Intersectionality, NGO Activism, and Cultural Politics in Hong Kong / Lisa Fischler -- Institutionalizing the Representation of Religious Minorities in post-1997 Hong Kong / Lida V. Nedilsky -- The Limits of Chinese Transnationalism: The Cultural Identity of Malaysian-Chinese Students in Guangzhou / Kam-Yee Law, Kim-Ming Lee.