Christianity in China, From the Eighteenth Century to the Present by Bays, Daniel H. (editor) - 1996

Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1996. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo. Soft cover. xxii, 483 pp. Fine. This pathbreaking volume will force a reassessment of many common assumptions about the relationship between Christianity and modern China. The overall thrust of the twenty essays is that despite the conflicts and tensions that often have characterized relations between Christianity and China, in fact Christianity has been, for the past two centuries or more, putting down roots with in Chinese society, and is in the process of becoming a Chinese religion, as Buddhism did centuries ago.