Lian Xi
Biographic Data
| ID | 3676050 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lian Xi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lian |
| FAMILY NAME | Xi |
| SIGNATURE | XI L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hanover College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Fulfilling Prophecies on China's Ethnic Frontiers in Southeast Asia: Peripheral Peoples' Encounter with Christianity in the Twentieth Century
At the turn of the twentieth century, an enchanted response to Christianity among minority peoples on China's ethnic frontiers in Southeast Asia caught Western missionaries by surprise. This paper explores the historical circumstances and the dynamics of the mass Christian conversion among those hill peoples. Far from a cultural defeat and a grudging surrender to a conquering foreign faith, their embrace of Christianity was an exuberant, communal…
Protestants Abroad: How Missionaries Tried to Change the World but Changed America
In Protestants Abroad David Hollinger reminds us of the vital role of missionaries in American history. The book explores how overseas missions, though often linked with imperialism, produced a counterreaction against it in the course of the twentieth century. As a result of the “cascading self-interrogations” from the mission field, both the missionary enterprise and churches in America were challenged and changed. Missionaries, their children, …
Redeemed by Fire: The Rise of Popular Christianity in Modern China
This book is the first to address the history and future of homegrown, mass Chinese Christianity. Drawing on a large collection of fresh sources—including contemporaneous accounts, diaries, memoirs, archival material, and interviews—Lian Xi traces the transformation of Protestant Christianity in twentieth-century China from a small, beleaguered “missionary” church buffeted by antiforeignism to an indigenous popular religion energized by nationali…
Returning to the Middle Kingdom: Yung Wing and the recalled students of the Chinese Educational Mission to the United States
This article re-examines the frustrated Westernizing efforts of Yung Wing and the recalled students of the Chinese Educational Mission to the United States (1872-1881). It does so in response to recent scholarship (in both the Chinese and the English languages) which affirms the 'transformative role' of the returnees in late Qing reform and modernization. On the basis of a variety of sources, this article suggests, instead, that for those patriot…
Symposium Onchristianity and Chinaintroduction: A New Journey in the Study of Christianity in China
In recent years, advances in academic studies of Chinese Christianity as well as the flourishing of Christianity itself in post-Mao China have forced us to reconsider the role that Christianity, pa
Cultural Christians” and the Search for Civil Society in Contemporary China
This article traces the emergence of political and legal activism among China’s Protestant elites since the turn of the twenty-first century. It explores the work and the writings of several contemporary public intellectuals and activists who have discovered in their newfound Protestant faith a sacred ground upon which they stand in opposition to the arbitrary powers of the Party-state. Other liberals such as Liu Xiaobo also see Christianity as o…
Redeemed by Fire: The Rise of Popular Christianity in Modern China
This book addresses the history and future of homegrown, mass Chinese Christianity. Drawing on a large collection of fresh sources—including contemporaneous accounts, diaries, memoirs, archival material, and interviews—it traces the transformation of Protestant Christianity in twentieth-century China from a small, beleaguered “missionary” church buffeted by antiforeignism to an indigenous popular religion energized by nationalism and millenariani…
A Messianic Deliverance for Post-Dynastic China: The Launch of the True Jesus Church in the Early Twentieth Century
This article explores the rise of the True Jesus Church (TJC) as part of an emerging indigenous Chinese Christianity. Begun in 1917 under the influence of American Pentecostalism, the TJC developed into a lively popular sect with more than a million members by the 1990s. The birth of this independent and often antiforeign group coincided with, and was aided by, the surge of patriotism in the early Republican period and arguably constituted a reli…
The Search for Chinese Christianity in the Republican Period (1912-1949)
For more than a century after its introduction into China in 1807, Protestant Christianity remained an alien religion preached and presided over by Western missionaries. In fact the Christian enterprise, both Protestant and Roman Catholic, was given protection as Western interests by the Qing court after China's defeat in the Opium War of 1839-42. According to the treaty signed with the United States in 1858, for instance, the Qing government was…
The Conversion of Missionaries: Liberalism in American Protestant Missions in China, 1907-1932
A Messianic Deliverance for Post-Dynastic China: The Launch of the True Jesus Church in the Early Twentieth Century
This article explores the rise of the True Jesus Church (TJC) as part of an emerging indigenous Chinese Christianity. Begun in 1917 under the influence of American Pentecostalism, the TJC developed into a lively popular sect with more than a million members by the 1990s. The birth of this independent and often antiforeign group coincided with, and was aided by, the surge of patriotism in the early Republican period and arguably constituted a reli…
Returning to the Middle Kingdom: Yung Wing and the recalled students of the Chinese Educational Mission to the United States
This article re-examines the frustrated Westernizing efforts of Yung Wing and the recalled students of the Chinese Educational Mission to the United States (1872-1881). It does so in response to recent scholarship (in both the Chinese and the English languages) which affirms the 'transformative role' of the returnees in late Qing reform and modernization. On the basis of a variety of sources, this article suggests, instead, that for those patriot…
Cultural Christians” and the Search for Civil Society in Contemporary China
This article traces the emergence of political and legal activism among China’s Protestant elites since the turn of the twenty-first century. It explores the work and the writings of several contemporary public intellectuals and activists who have discovered in their newfound Protestant faith a sacred ground upon which they stand in opposition to the arbitrary powers of the Party-state. Other liberals such as Liu Xiaobo also see Christianity as o…
The Search for Chinese Christianity in the Republican Period (1912-1949)
For more than a century after its introduction into China in 1807, Protestant Christianity remained an alien religion preached and presided over by Western missionaries. In fact the Christian enterprise, both Protestant and Roman Catholic, was given protection as Western interests by the Qing court after China's defeat in the Opium War of 1839-42. According to the treaty signed with the United States in 1858, for instance, the Qing government was…
The Conversion of Missionaries: Liberalism in American Protestant Missions in China, 1907-1932
The Search for Chinese Christianity in the Republican Period (1912-1949)
For more than a century after its introduction into China in 1807, Protestant Christianity remained an alien religion preached and presided over by Western missionaries. In fact the Christian enterprise, both Protestant and Roman Catholic, was given protection as Western interests by the Qing court after China's defeat in the Opium War of 1839-42. According to the treaty signed with the United States in 1858, for instance, the Qing government was…
A Messianic Deliverance for Post-Dynastic China: The Launch of the True Jesus Church in the Early Twentieth Century
This article explores the rise of the True Jesus Church (TJC) as part of an emerging indigenous Chinese Christianity. Begun in 1917 under the influence of American Pentecostalism, the TJC developed into a lively popular sect with more than a million members by the 1990s. The birth of this independent and often antiforeign group coincided with, and was aided by, the surge of patriotism in the early Republican period and arguably constituted a reli…
Redeemed by Fire: The Rise of Popular Christianity in Modern China
This book addresses the history and future of homegrown, mass Chinese Christianity. Drawing on a large collection of fresh sources—including contemporaneous accounts, diaries, memoirs, archival material, and interviews—it traces the transformation of Protestant Christianity in twentieth-century China from a small, beleaguered “missionary” church buffeted by antiforeignism to an indigenous popular religion energized by nationalism and millenariani…
Symposium Onchristianity and Chinaintroduction: A New Journey in the Study of Christianity in China
In recent years, advances in academic studies of Chinese Christianity as well as the flourishing of Christianity itself in post-Mao China have forced us to reconsider the role that Christianity, pa
Cultural Christians” and the Search for Civil Society in Contemporary China
This article traces the emergence of political and legal activism among China’s Protestant elites since the turn of the twenty-first century. It explores the work and the writings of several contemporary public intellectuals and activists who have discovered in their newfound Protestant faith a sacred ground upon which they stand in opposition to the arbitrary powers of the Party-state. Other liberals such as Liu Xiaobo also see Christianity as o…
Returning to the Middle Kingdom: Yung Wing and the recalled students of the Chinese Educational Mission to the United States
This article re-examines the frustrated Westernizing efforts of Yung Wing and the recalled students of the Chinese Educational Mission to the United States (1872-1881). It does so in response to recent scholarship (in both the Chinese and the English languages) which affirms the 'transformative role' of the returnees in late Qing reform and modernization. On the basis of a variety of sources, this article suggests, instead, that for those patriot…
Redeemed by Fire: The Rise of Popular Christianity in Modern China
This book is the first to address the history and future of homegrown, mass Chinese Christianity. Drawing on a large collection of fresh sources—including contemporaneous accounts, diaries, memoirs, archival material, and interviews—Lian Xi traces the transformation of Protestant Christianity in twentieth-century China from a small, beleaguered “missionary” church buffeted by antiforeignism to an indigenous popular religion energized by nationali…
Protestants Abroad: How Missionaries Tried to Change the World but Changed America
In Protestants Abroad David Hollinger reminds us of the vital role of missionaries in American history. The book explores how overseas missions, though often linked with imperialism, produced a counterreaction against it in the course of the twentieth century. As a result of the “cascading self-interrogations” from the mission field, both the missionary enterprise and churches in America were challenged and changed. Missionaries, their children, …
Fulfilling Prophecies on China's Ethnic Frontiers in Southeast Asia: Peripheral Peoples' Encounter with Christianity in the Twentieth Century
At the turn of the twentieth century, an enchanted response to Christianity among minority peoples on China's ethnic frontiers in Southeast Asia caught Western missionaries by surprise. This paper explores the historical circumstances and the dynamics of the mass Christian conversion among those hill peoples. Far from a cultural defeat and a grudging surrender to a conquering foreign faith, their embrace of Christianity was an exuberant, communal…
China (10 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · History (8 works) · Christianity (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Religious studies (7 works) · Protestantism (6 works)