Global entanglements of a man who never traveled : a seventeenth-century Chinese Christian and his conflicted worlds / Dominic Sachsenmaier.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: situating Zhu Zongyuan -- A local life and its global contexts -- A globalizing organization and Chinese Christian life -- A teaching shaped by constraints -- Of foreign learnings and Confucian ways -- European origins on trial -- Epilogue: the global standing of a man who never traveled.

Born into a low-level literati family in the port city of Ningbo, the seventeenth-century Chinese Christian convert Zhu Zongyuan likely never left his home province. Yet Zhu nonetheless led a remarkably globally connected life. His relations with the outside world, ranging from scholarly activities to involvement with globalizing Catholicism, put him in contact with a complex and contradictory set of foreign and domestic forces. In Global Entanglements of a Man Who Never Traveled, Dominic Sachsenmaier explores the mid-seventeenth-century world and the worldwide flows of ideas through the lens of Zhu's life, combining the local, regional, and global. Taking particular aspects of Zhu's multiple belongings as a starting point, Sachsenmaier analyzes the contexts that framed his worlds as he balanced a local life and his border-crossing faith. At the local level, the book pays attention to the intellectual, political, and social environments of late Ming and early Qing society, including Confucian learning and the Manchu conquest, questioning the role of ethnic and religious identities. At the global level, it considers how individuals like Zhu were situated within the history of organizations and power structures such as the Catholic Church and early modern empires amid larger transformations and encounters. A strikingly original work, this book is a major contribution to East Asian, transnational, and global history, with important implications for historical approaches and methodologies.

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Also accessible online at JSTOR via Gleeson Library.

Contents: Daughter of China -- Tiananmen Square, 1989 -- Farewell to Beijing -- The American dream meets Chinese reality -- Freedom calling.

"A Heart for Freedom is a tale of passion, political furor, and spirtual awakening. An inside look at China, then and now. A love song to a now forbidden country. And the inspirational true story of a woman who has dedicated everything to giving people in China their chance at a future."--Page [4] of jacket.

Autobiography by a student leader of the Tiananmen 天安門 Square protests who subsequently emigrated to the US and converted to Christianity.

Contents: In preparation -- Being refined -- Back home -- Serving the Lord.

Back jacket: " At the age of 72, and after years of teaching, Julia Duan left China and returned to student life at Whitworth College, Spokane, Washington, and later at Moody Bible Institute. Her story was discovered by Linda Hunt, a writing professor at Whitworth, when she read Julia's description of her first night in the labor camp. Touched by this chapter in Julia's life, Linda sugggested she write her entire story. She prayed and ultimately agreed to let her life "be a spectacle to the world for God's glory." Since journals were not allowed in the labor camp, Julia set about writing her story from memory, first in English and then in Chinese. She squeezed writing time in between classes, studies, speaking engagements, and work. During the last four years, Julia has been an ambassador for the believers of China participating in conferences for Chinese Christians in various cities. Her stories challenged and inspired these believers, most of whom converted to Christ after coming to America."

"Neither Eastern nor Western : Jia Yuming's support of independent churches in the anti-Christian movement" / Qin Junhui.

Religions 15 (2024).

This article belongs to the Special Issue Expressions of Chinese Christianity in Texts and Contexts: In Memory of Our Mentor Professor R. G. Tiedemann (1941–2019).

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Abstract:

The Chinese Christian church was accused of colluding with Western imperialism, and this led to the anti-Christian movement. The Chinese church responded by accelerating a movement of church independence. Discussions of this movement have often been incorporated into a discourse of aggression and resistance between East and West. Such discussions obscure the differences between individuals and the plurality of thought in the Chinese church. Based on the textual analysis of his writings, the article aims to reveal previously overlooked details within Jia Yuming’s justification of the independence movement by. On the one hand, Jia responded to nationalism by pointing out the ethnic and national identities and obligations of Christians. On the other hand, he avoided conflict with the Western missions in the process of independence, thus taking the church’s independence out of the context of East–West confrontation. Finally, he reconciled the conflict between national identity and the Western image with the ecumenical values of Christ and the Christian reformation of society, unifying both sides with ultimate spirituality. His justification draws attention to an attuned theological path of thought in the process of indigenization of the Chinese church.

Passing the torch / Luke O'Reilly.

Introduction / Carol Lee Hamrin and Stacey Bieler -- Rong Hong: visionary for a new China / Stacey Bieler -- Tang Guo'an: pioneering China's rights recovery movement / Carol Lee Hamrin -- Shi Meiyu: an "army of women" in medicine / Connie Shemo -- Fan Zimei: between tradition and modernity / Fuk-Tsang Ying -- Ding Shujing: the YWCA pathway for China's "new women" / Elizabeth A. Littell-Lamb -- Mei Yiqi: university president in wartime / Stacey Bieler -- Lin Qiaozhi: the steady pulse of a quiet faith / Guowei Wright -- Wei Zhuomin: bridging national culture and world values / Peter Tze Ming Ng -- Wu Yifang: abundant life in training women for service / Mary Jo Waelchli -- Yan Yangchu: reformer with a heart for the village / Stacey Bieler.

Rong Hong (Yung Wing) 容閎 – Tang Guo'an (Tong Kwoh On) 唐國安 – Tang Jiechen (Tong Kai-son) 唐介臣 – Shi Meiyu (Mary Stone) 石美玉 – Fan Zimei (T.M. Fan, Fan Yi) 范子美 (范禕) – Ding Shujing (Ting Shu Ching) 丁淑靜 – Mei Yiqi (Yi Chi Mei) 梅貽綺 – Lin Qiaozhi (Lim Kah T'i) 林巧稚 – Wei Zhuomin (Francis Wei) 韋卓民 – Wu Yifang 吳貽芳 – Yan Yangchu (Y.C. James Yen) 晏陽初.