Chinese culture in the mind of the West / Yu-Ming Shaw -- The Chinese religious sense / Julia Ching -- Religious roots and implications of Maoism / Michel Masson -- Chinese daily life as a locus for ethics / Hung Chih -- The meaning of transcendence in Chinese thought / Claude Larre -- The reinterpretation of Western Christianity in terms of China past and present / Jean Charbonnier -- The theological theme of salvation and liberation and the Maoist concept of a new humanity / Luigi Sartori -- Theology in the age of China : evangelisation and culture / Claude Geffre -- How can one be at the same time authentically Chinese and Christian? / Stanislaus Lokuang -- Can one be truly Christian and Chinese at the same time? Point of view of a Christian from Hong Kong / Edmond Tang -- The churches in new China / Donald MaCinnis -- Chinese Christianity outside China / Jean Charbonnier -- Theological China - research since Bastad-Leuven / Joseph Spae -- Centres of research on the encounter between Christianity and China / Parig Digan.

Peaks of faith : Protestant mission in revolutionary China / Tʻien Ju-Kʻang.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-158) and index.

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.

Preliminary material / T'IEN JU-K'ANG -- PROLOGUE / T'IEN JU-K'ANG --  HISTORICAL BACKGROUND / T'IEN JU-K'ANG -- WRETCHED MINORITIES / T'IEN JU-K'ANG -- TRIBAL WORK IN YUNNAN / T'IEN JU-K'ANG -- SELF-DENYING MISSIONARIES / T'IEN JU-K'ANG -- A NEW LEASE ON LIFE / T'IEN JU-K'ANG -- DIVERGENT VIEWS AMONG THE HAN CHINESE / T'IEN JU-K'ANG -- THE FIRST PHASE OF THE TRYING YEARS / T'IEN JU-K'ANG -- THE SECOND PHASE OF THE TRYING YEARS (1957-1977) / ǂr T'IEN JU-K'ANG -- ǂt REKINDLED HOPE / ǂr T'IEN JU-K'ANG -- ǂt EPILOGUE / ǂr T'IEN JU-K'ANG -- APPENDIX I: THE CONSEQUENCES OF UNCENTRALIZED POLITICAL SYSTEMS -- A THEORETICAL INQUIRY / T'IEN JU-K'ANG -- APPENDIX II: HISTORICAL DESIGNATIONS OF THE ETHNIC MINORITIES IN YUNNAN / T'IEN JU-K'ANG -- APPENDIX III: POPULATION OF THE ETHNIC MINORITIES IN YUNNAN, 1985 / T'IEN JU-K'ANG -- ABBREVIATIONS / T'IEN JU-K'ANG -- BIBLIOGRAPHY / T'IEN JU-K'ANG -- INDEX / T'IEN JU-K'ANG -- STUDIES IN CHRISTIAN MISSION / T'IEN JU-K'ANG.