Nanlai Cao
Biographic Data
| ID | 123757 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nanlai Cao |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nanlai |
| FAMILY NAME | Cao |
| SIGNATURE | CAO N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Renmin University of China |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6315-3555 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 72 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Mitigating the impact of negative emotions on retaliation responses to injustice: The spillover effect of state forgiveness
We investigated the spillover effect of state forgiveness from one instance of injustice on forgiving offenders in another instance. The samplecomprised 210 undergraduates at a university in China, who completed an experiment concerning justice in evaluation for awarding scholarships. We assessed the mediating effect of both positive and negative emotions and the moderating effect of state forgiveness induced in advance on the relationship betwee…
Sacralising Chinese Entrepreneurship: Christianity and Chinese Entrepreneurial Migration in the Making of a Patriarchal Diaspora
This article explores China's global economic presence by focusing on the changing dynamics of diasporic Chinese entrepreneurship in France. Since the turn of the new century, the ethnic Chinese population in France has become increasingly heterogeneous in migratory trajectory and socioeconomic profile. Accordingly, the focus on economic activities among tight‐knit groups in the traditional model of an ethnic enclave economy might not be adequate…
Thomas H. Reilly. Saving the Nation: Chinese Protestant Elites and the Quest to Build a New China, 1922–1952
Journal Article Thomas H. Reilly. Saving the Nation: Chinese Protestant Elites and the Quest to Build a New China, 1922–1952. Get access Thomas H. Reilly. Saving the Nation: Chinese Protestant Elites and the Quest to Build a New China, 1922–1952. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 264. Cloth $130.00. Nanlai Cao Nanlai Cao City University of Hong Kong, China Email: [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6315-3555 Search for …
Contextualizing Transnational Chinese Christianity: A Relational Approach
In recent years, the number of Chinese Christian organizations in Europe has grown considerably compared to other overseas Chinese community organizations. They can mobilize transnational networks and resources to expand religious space in host societies and form a highly visible social force. Although the rise of early Christianity in the Western world has been considered an outcome of inherent religious strength, especially in terms of its cent…
Merchants and missionaries: Chinese evangelical networks and the transnational resacralization of European urban spaces
This article sheds new light on the diverse modes in which migration and religion intersect in shaping everyday transnational practices by exploring the articulations of religion and business migration in an emerging Chinese‐led transnational mission field. Drawing on multisited ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Wenzhou, Rome and Paris, I show how a large group of transnational Chinese merchants has adopted a vigorous homegrown evangelical Chri…
Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion. Volume 11 (2020): Chinese Religions Going Global
From China with faith : sinicizing Christianity in Europe / Nanlai Cao -- Between cultural reproduction and cultural translation : a case study of Yiguandao in London and Manchester / Hung-Jen Yang -- Diverse religious experiences among Overseas Chinese in the United Arab Emirates / Yuting Wang
The Undercurrent Coming to the Surface: Pentecostal Strategies, Entrepreneurship, and the Nation State in the Chinese World
This paper explores the convergence and divergence in the development of Chinese Christianity and the global surge of Pentecostalism by focusing on the evolution and expansion of an indigenous Pentecostal sector in Chinese Christianity. Drawing on extended ethnographic fieldwork among prosperous urban church communities in coastal southeast China and the growing Chinese merchant diaspora in Europe, I show that the Pentecostal undercurrent sustain…
A Sinicized World Religion: Chinese Christianity at the Contemporary Moment of Globalization
This essay explores the rise of Protestant Christianity at the contemporary stage of China's globalization as a unique social and cultural phenomenon. Globalization can be seen as not only a homogenization process in political and economic terms, but also a process in which religious ideas and moral principles spread around the world. While in an earlier phase of globalization lack of Christianity was once constructed as a moral argument to ban C…
Anxious Wealth: Money and Morality among China's New Rich
Reconstituting Boundaries and Connectivity: Religion and Mobility in a Globalising Asia
Renegotiating Locality and Morality in a Chinese Religious Diaspora: Wenzhou Christian Merchants in Paris, France
This paper explores the social and economic implications of indigenous Christian discourses and practices in the Wenzhou Chinese diaspora in Paris, France. Popularly known as China's Jerusalem, the coastal Chinese city of Wenzhou is home to thousands of self-started home-grown Protestant churches and a million Protestants. Drawing on multi-sited fieldwork, this study provides an ethnographic account of a group of Wenzhou merchants who have formed…
Urban Property as Spiritual Resource: The Prosperity Gospel Phenomenon in Coastal China
Since the founding of the People's Republic in 1949 and the subsequent withdrawal of foreign missionaries, Protestant Christianity has been thoroughly indigenized in China by weaving itself into ritual forms, sets of cultural assumptions, and the fabric of power relations derived from immediate local realities. In the absence of a central interpretative authority, organizationally independent church groups are often divided along rural/urban line…
"Kingdom-Minded" People: Christian Identity and the Contributions of Chinese Business Christians
Much research on Chinese Christianity has emphasized a deeply rooted antagonistic relationship between the church and the secular state. There has been a scant but growing literature exploring how Chinese Christian groups have worked within the existing social and political system while maintaining their commitment to faith. Drawing on historical archival research and personal interviews, Denise A. Austin's “Kingdom-Minded” People makes a valuabl…
Elite Christianity and Spiritual Nationalism
This paper explores the intersection of spiritual renewal and grassroots nationalism within contemporary Chinese Christianity through the case of an emerging group of Christian businessmen who have spearheaded the growth of independent churches in the coastal Wenzhou area, called "boss Christians." Prompted by their success in the new entrepreneurial world, these elite male Christians strive to gain spiritual prestige and moral superiority in the…
Constructing China’s Jerusalem: Christians, Power, and Place in Contemporary Wenzhou
Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth life history interviews, this illuminating book provides an intimate portrait of contemporary Chinese Christianity in the context of a modern, commercialized economy. In vivid detail, anthropologist Nanlai Cao explores the massive resurgence of Protestant Christianity in the southeastern coastal city of Wenzhou-popularly referred to by its residents as Jerusalem-a nationwide model for econo…
Book and Film Reviews
BIELO, James S., Words Upon the Word: An Ethnography of Evangelical Group Bible Study, x, 187 pp., notes, references, index. New York: New York University Press, 2009. Paperback, $21. ISBN 9780814791226. BLACKBURN, Anne M., Locations of Buddhism: Colonialism and Modernity in Sri Lanka, xxii, 237 pp., figures, bibliographical references. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. Cloth, $45. ISBN 9780226055077. BRUCE, Steve, Paisley: Religion and…
Chinese Religiosities: Afflictions of Modernity and State Formation . Mayfair Mei-hui Yang
Contextualization of Christianity in China: An Evaluation in Modern Perspective . Peter Chen-main Wang
Améliorer le niveau des croyants. La notion de suzhi et la production d’un protestantisme d’élite
Cet article aborde la question de l’évolution du protestantisme dans la Chine urbaine contemporaine à travers l’étude du discours chrétien sur le suzhi (“ niveau” ou “ qualité” des croyants), notion qui recouvre à la fois des dimensions culturelle, sociale, éducative et morale. Il s’agira de montrer, en mettant en regard la notion de suzhi et la formation de l’identité et du sujet dans la communauté protestante chinoise, que la dévotion des prote…
Boss Christians: The Business of Religion in the "Wenzhou Model" of Christian Revival
Narratives of the Chinese Economic Reforms: Individual Pathways from Plan to Market . Dorothy J. Solinger
Christian Entrepreneurs and the Post-Mao State: An Ethnographic Account of Church-State Relations in China's Economic Transition
Journal Article Christian Entrepreneurs and the Post-Mao State: An Ethnographic Account of Church-State Relations in China's Economic Transition Get access Nanlai Cao Nanlai Cao The Australian National University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 68, Issue 1, Spring 2007, Pages 45–66, https://doi.org/10.1093/socrel/68.1.45 Published: 01 March 2007
Miraculous Response: Doing Popular Religion in Contemporary China . Adam Yuet Chau
God and Caesar in China: Policy Implications of Church-State Tensions . Jason Kindopp , Carol Lee Hamrin
The Church as a Surrogate Family for Working Class Immigrant Chinese Youth: An Ethnography of Segmented Assimilation
Based on ethnographic data collected in a New York Chinatown church, this paper explores how ethnic socialization and upward assimilation work together, a primary theme of the segmented assimilation thesis, among working class immigrant Chinese youth who convert to Christianity. These youth are much more bi-cultural and more at risk than the Asian American youth who have received most of the attention in the immigrant religion literature. This st…
The Church as a Surrogate Family for Working Class Immigrant Chinese Youth: An Ethnography of Segmented Assimilation
Based on ethnographic data collected in a New York Chinatown church, this paper explores how ethnic socialization and upward assimilation work together, a primary theme of the segmented assimilation thesis, among working class immigrant Chinese youth who convert to Christianity. These youth are much more bi-cultural and more at risk than the Asian American youth who have received most of the attention in the immigrant religion literature. This st…
Renegotiating Locality and Morality in a Chinese Religious Diaspora: Wenzhou Christian Merchants in Paris, France
This paper explores the social and economic implications of indigenous Christian discourses and practices in the Wenzhou Chinese diaspora in Paris, France. Popularly known as China's Jerusalem, the coastal Chinese city of Wenzhou is home to thousands of self-started home-grown Protestant churches and a million Protestants. Drawing on multi-sited fieldwork, this study provides an ethnographic account of a group of Wenzhou merchants who have formed…
Elite Christianity and Spiritual Nationalism
This paper explores the intersection of spiritual renewal and grassroots nationalism within contemporary Chinese Christianity through the case of an emerging group of Christian businessmen who have spearheaded the growth of independent churches in the coastal Wenzhou area, called "boss Christians." Prompted by their success in the new entrepreneurial world, these elite male Christians strive to gain spiritual prestige and moral superiority in the…
Christian Entrepreneurs and the Post-Mao State: An Ethnographic Account of Church-State Relations in China's Economic Transition
Journal Article Christian Entrepreneurs and the Post-Mao State: An Ethnographic Account of Church-State Relations in China's Economic Transition Get access Nanlai Cao Nanlai Cao The Australian National University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 68, Issue 1, Spring 2007, Pages 45–66, https://doi.org/10.1093/socrel/68.1.45 Published: 01 March 2007
Boss Christians: The Business of Religion in the "Wenzhou Model" of Christian Revival
A Sinicized World Religion: Chinese Christianity at the Contemporary Moment of Globalization
This essay explores the rise of Protestant Christianity at the contemporary stage of China's globalization as a unique social and cultural phenomenon. Globalization can be seen as not only a homogenization process in political and economic terms, but also a process in which religious ideas and moral principles spread around the world. While in an earlier phase of globalization lack of Christianity was once constructed as a moral argument to ban C…
Améliorer le niveau des croyants. La notion de suzhi et la production d’un protestantisme d’élite
Cet article aborde la question de l’évolution du protestantisme dans la Chine urbaine contemporaine à travers l’étude du discours chrétien sur le suzhi (“ niveau” ou “ qualité” des croyants), notion qui recouvre à la fois des dimensions culturelle, sociale, éducative et morale. Il s’agira de montrer, en mettant en regard la notion de suzhi et la formation de l’identité et du sujet dans la communauté protestante chinoise, que la dévotion des prote…
Contextualizing Transnational Chinese Christianity: A Relational Approach
In recent years, the number of Chinese Christian organizations in Europe has grown considerably compared to other overseas Chinese community organizations. They can mobilize transnational networks and resources to expand religious space in host societies and form a highly visible social force. Although the rise of early Christianity in the Western world has been considered an outcome of inherent religious strength, especially in terms of its cent…
Merchants and missionaries: Chinese evangelical networks and the transnational resacralization of European urban spaces
This article sheds new light on the diverse modes in which migration and religion intersect in shaping everyday transnational practices by exploring the articulations of religion and business migration in an emerging Chinese‐led transnational mission field. Drawing on multisited ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Wenzhou, Rome and Paris, I show how a large group of transnational Chinese merchants has adopted a vigorous homegrown evangelical Chri…
Reconstituting Boundaries and Connectivity: Religion and Mobility in a Globalising Asia
God and Caesar in China: Policy Implications of Church-State Tensions . Jason Kindopp , Carol Lee Hamrin
The Church as a Surrogate Family for Working Class Immigrant Chinese Youth: An Ethnography of Segmented Assimilation
Based on ethnographic data collected in a New York Chinatown church, this paper explores how ethnic socialization and upward assimilation work together, a primary theme of the segmented assimilation thesis, among working class immigrant Chinese youth who convert to Christianity. These youth are much more bi-cultural and more at risk than the Asian American youth who have received most of the attention in the immigrant religion literature. This st…
Miraculous Response: Doing Popular Religion in Contemporary China . Adam Yuet Chau
Narratives of the Chinese Economic Reforms: Individual Pathways from Plan to Market . Dorothy J. Solinger
Christian Entrepreneurs and the Post-Mao State: An Ethnographic Account of Church-State Relations in China's Economic Transition
Journal Article Christian Entrepreneurs and the Post-Mao State: An Ethnographic Account of Church-State Relations in China's Economic Transition Get access Nanlai Cao Nanlai Cao The Australian National University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 68, Issue 1, Spring 2007, Pages 45–66, https://doi.org/10.1093/socrel/68.1.45 Published: 01 March 2007
Boss Christians: The Business of Religion in the "Wenzhou Model" of Christian Revival
Chinese Religiosities: Afflictions of Modernity and State Formation . Mayfair Mei-hui Yang
Contextualization of Christianity in China: An Evaluation in Modern Perspective . Peter Chen-main Wang
Améliorer le niveau des croyants. La notion de suzhi et la production d’un protestantisme d’élite
Cet article aborde la question de l’évolution du protestantisme dans la Chine urbaine contemporaine à travers l’étude du discours chrétien sur le suzhi (“ niveau” ou “ qualité” des croyants), notion qui recouvre à la fois des dimensions culturelle, sociale, éducative et morale. Il s’agira de montrer, en mettant en regard la notion de suzhi et la formation de l’identité et du sujet dans la communauté protestante chinoise, que la dévotion des prote…
Constructing China’s Jerusalem: Christians, Power, and Place in Contemporary Wenzhou
Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth life history interviews, this illuminating book provides an intimate portrait of contemporary Chinese Christianity in the context of a modern, commercialized economy. In vivid detail, anthropologist Nanlai Cao explores the massive resurgence of Protestant Christianity in the southeastern coastal city of Wenzhou-popularly referred to by its residents as Jerusalem-a nationwide model for econo…
Book and Film Reviews
BIELO, James S., Words Upon the Word: An Ethnography of Evangelical Group Bible Study, x, 187 pp., notes, references, index. New York: New York University Press, 2009. Paperback, $21. ISBN 9780814791226. BLACKBURN, Anne M., Locations of Buddhism: Colonialism and Modernity in Sri Lanka, xxii, 237 pp., figures, bibliographical references. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. Cloth, $45. ISBN 9780226055077. BRUCE, Steve, Paisley: Religion and…
Urban Property as Spiritual Resource: The Prosperity Gospel Phenomenon in Coastal China
Since the founding of the People's Republic in 1949 and the subsequent withdrawal of foreign missionaries, Protestant Christianity has been thoroughly indigenized in China by weaving itself into ritual forms, sets of cultural assumptions, and the fabric of power relations derived from immediate local realities. In the absence of a central interpretative authority, organizationally independent church groups are often divided along rural/urban line…
"Kingdom-Minded" People: Christian Identity and the Contributions of Chinese Business Christians
Much research on Chinese Christianity has emphasized a deeply rooted antagonistic relationship between the church and the secular state. There has been a scant but growing literature exploring how Chinese Christian groups have worked within the existing social and political system while maintaining their commitment to faith. Drawing on historical archival research and personal interviews, Denise A. Austin's “Kingdom-Minded” People makes a valuabl…
Elite Christianity and Spiritual Nationalism
This paper explores the intersection of spiritual renewal and grassroots nationalism within contemporary Chinese Christianity through the case of an emerging group of Christian businessmen who have spearheaded the growth of independent churches in the coastal Wenzhou area, called "boss Christians." Prompted by their success in the new entrepreneurial world, these elite male Christians strive to gain spiritual prestige and moral superiority in the…
Reconstituting Boundaries and Connectivity: Religion and Mobility in a Globalising Asia
Renegotiating Locality and Morality in a Chinese Religious Diaspora: Wenzhou Christian Merchants in Paris, France
This paper explores the social and economic implications of indigenous Christian discourses and practices in the Wenzhou Chinese diaspora in Paris, France. Popularly known as China's Jerusalem, the coastal Chinese city of Wenzhou is home to thousands of self-started home-grown Protestant churches and a million Protestants. Drawing on multi-sited fieldwork, this study provides an ethnographic account of a group of Wenzhou merchants who have formed…
Anxious Wealth: Money and Morality among China's New Rich
A Sinicized World Religion: Chinese Christianity at the Contemporary Moment of Globalization
This essay explores the rise of Protestant Christianity at the contemporary stage of China's globalization as a unique social and cultural phenomenon. Globalization can be seen as not only a homogenization process in political and economic terms, but also a process in which religious ideas and moral principles spread around the world. While in an earlier phase of globalization lack of Christianity was once constructed as a moral argument to ban C…
The Undercurrent Coming to the Surface: Pentecostal Strategies, Entrepreneurship, and the Nation State in the Chinese World
This paper explores the convergence and divergence in the development of Chinese Christianity and the global surge of Pentecostalism by focusing on the evolution and expansion of an indigenous Pentecostal sector in Chinese Christianity. Drawing on extended ethnographic fieldwork among prosperous urban church communities in coastal southeast China and the growing Chinese merchant diaspora in Europe, I show that the Pentecostal undercurrent sustain…
Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion. Volume 11 (2020): Chinese Religions Going Global
From China with faith : sinicizing Christianity in Europe / Nanlai Cao -- Between cultural reproduction and cultural translation : a case study of Yiguandao in London and Manchester / Hung-Jen Yang -- Diverse religious experiences among Overseas Chinese in the United Arab Emirates / Yuting Wang
Merchants and missionaries: Chinese evangelical networks and the transnational resacralization of European urban spaces
This article sheds new light on the diverse modes in which migration and religion intersect in shaping everyday transnational practices by exploring the articulations of religion and business migration in an emerging Chinese‐led transnational mission field. Drawing on multisited ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Wenzhou, Rome and Paris, I show how a large group of transnational Chinese merchants has adopted a vigorous homegrown evangelical Chri…
Sacralising Chinese Entrepreneurship: Christianity and Chinese Entrepreneurial Migration in the Making of a Patriarchal Diaspora
This article explores China's global economic presence by focusing on the changing dynamics of diasporic Chinese entrepreneurship in France. Since the turn of the new century, the ethnic Chinese population in France has become increasingly heterogeneous in migratory trajectory and socioeconomic profile. Accordingly, the focus on economic activities among tight‐knit groups in the traditional model of an ethnic enclave economy might not be adequate…
Thomas H. Reilly. Saving the Nation: Chinese Protestant Elites and the Quest to Build a New China, 1922–1952
Journal Article Thomas H. Reilly. Saving the Nation: Chinese Protestant Elites and the Quest to Build a New China, 1922–1952. Get access Thomas H. Reilly. Saving the Nation: Chinese Protestant Elites and the Quest to Build a New China, 1922–1952. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 264. Cloth $130.00. Nanlai Cao Nanlai Cao City University of Hong Kong, China Email: [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6315-3555 Search for …
Contextualizing Transnational Chinese Christianity: A Relational Approach
In recent years, the number of Chinese Christian organizations in Europe has grown considerably compared to other overseas Chinese community organizations. They can mobilize transnational networks and resources to expand religious space in host societies and form a highly visible social force. Although the rise of early Christianity in the Western world has been considered an outcome of inherent religious strength, especially in terms of its cent…
Mitigating the impact of negative emotions on retaliation responses to injustice: The spillover effect of state forgiveness
We investigated the spillover effect of state forgiveness from one instance of injustice on forgiving offenders in another instance. The samplecomprised 210 undergraduates at a university in China, who completed an experiment concerning justice in evaluation for awarding scholarships. We assessed the mediating effect of both positive and negative emotions and the moderating effect of state forgiveness induced in advance on the relationship betwee…
Political science (23 works) · China (20 works) · Sociology (20 works) · Law (19 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (16 works) · History (12 works) · Christianity (11 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Philosophy (8 works)