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.

Expressions of Chinese christianity in texts and contexts : in memory of our mentor professor R G. Tiedemann (1941-2019) / Edited by: Laamann, Lars Peter; Lee, Joseph Tse-Hei [Li Xiexi 李榭熙]

The resilience of Chinese Christianity, characterized by diverse expressions of faith and practice, has garnered increasing scholarly attention as both a socio-cultural phenomenon and a field of study. This reprint presents innovative historical and social-scientific research on the transformations that have occurred within Chinese Christian movements. The contributors explore intra- and inter-church exchanges across Sino-Western linguistic, socio-cultural, and political boundaries, highlighting the trans-local networks that shaped Chinese Christianity. These articles argue that Chinese Christian expressions evolved either in analogy to or in resistance against Western missionary efforts, and in response to decades of socio-political upheaval that profoundly influenced Chinese churches and believers throughout the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. All twelve articles explore the reciprocal nature of Sino-Christian encounters, highlighting linguistic innovations in knowledge exchange, Chinese Christians' engagement with nationalism, and the consolidation of Cantonese and Wenzhou Protestant identities. These findings reveal the broader spectrum of Catholic and Protestant experiences in modern China. This reprint invites esteemed researchers to engage with novel source materials and examine the dynamics of Chinese Christianity within changing historical, socio-cultural, and transnational contexts. -- editor's note 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

About the Editors .............................................. vii
Preface ......................................................... ix

Lars Laamann and Joseph Tse-Hei Lee
Editorial for Special Issue “Expressions of Chinese Christianity in Texts and Contexts:
In Memory of Our Mentor, Professor R. G. Tiedemann (1941–2019)”
Reprinted from: Religions 2025, 16, 561
https://doi.org/10.3390/rel16050561 ........................................ 1

Shin Kataoka and Yin Ping Lee
Linguistic Contributions of Protestant Missionaries in South China:
An Overview of Cantonese Religious and Pedagogical Publications (1828–1939)
Reprinted from: Religions 2024, 15, 751
https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15060751 ........................................ 5

Sixing Chen
Making Knowledge in the Local Settings: Vernacular Education and Cantonese Elementary Textbooks
Reprinted from: Religions 2024, 15, 299
https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15030299 ........................................ 23

Man Kong Wong
An Encounter between Christian Medical Missions and Chinese Medicine in Modern History:
The Case of Benjamin Hobson
Reprinted from: Religions 2024, 15, 583
https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15050583 ........................................ 35

Haiyan Zhu and Xiao Lin
Communism and the Rise of the Anti-Christian Movement in Republican China
Reprinted from: Religions 2025, 16, 228
https://doi.org/10.3390/rel16020228 ........................................ 45

Silje Dragsund Aase
Competing Loyalties in a Contested Space: The Lutheran Middle School in Hunan Province (1907–1914)
Reprinted from: Religions 2024, 15, 589
https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15050589 ........................................ 62

Zhiyuan Pan
Inculturation at Home: The Belgian Catholic Project for Chinese Students (1920–1930s)
Reprinted from: Religions 2024, 15, 327
https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15030327 ........................................ 76

Junhui Qin
Neither Eastern nor Western: Jia Yuming’s Support of Independent Churches in the Anti-Christian Movement
Reprinted from: Religions 2024, 15, 743
https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15060743 ........................................ 91

Peter Kwok-Fai Law
A Caged Bird in a Communist Pavilion: Chao Tzu-chen and the Remolding of
Yenching University’s School of Religion (1949–1951)
Reprinted from: Religions 2024, 15, 898
https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15080898 ........................................ 103

Christina Wai-Yin Wong
Contingent Companion with the Cantonese: Uncovering a Hidden History of Written Cantonese
Christian Literature in the Late Nineteenth Century
Reprinted from: Religions 2024, 15, 758
https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15070758 ........................................ 122

Shin Fung Hung
From Singing “Out-of-Tone” to Creating Contextualized Cantonese Contemporary Worship Songs:
Hong Kong in the Decentralization of Chinese Christianity
Reprinted from: Religions 2024, 15, 648
https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15060648 ........................................ 132

Yi Yang
Accommodation and Compromise in the Contact Zone: Christianity and Chinese Culture in Modern Hong Kong Literature
Reprinted from: Religions 2024, 15, 629
https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15050629 ........................................ 146

Nanlai Cao and Lijun Lin
Contextualizing Transnational Chinese Christianity: A Relational Approach
Reprinted from: Religions 2024, 15, 510
https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15040510 ........................................ 158

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.