Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-456) and index

Catholics and society in eighteenth-century Sichuan / Robert E. Entenmann -- Catholic converts in Jiangxi province : conflict and accommodation, 1860-1900 / Alan R. Sweeten -- Rural religion and village organization in North China : the Catholic challenge in the late nineteenth century / Charles A. Litzinger -- Twilight of the Gods in the Chinese countryside : Christians, Confucians, and the modernizing state, 1861-1911 / Roger R. Thompson -- Christian missionary as Confucian intellectual : Gilbert Reid (1857-1927) and the reform movement in the late Qing / Tsou Mingteh -- Politics of evangelism at the end of the Qing : Nanchang, 1906 / Ernest P. Young

From barbarians to sinners : collective conversion among plains Aborigines in Qing Taiwan, 1859-1895 / John R. Shepherd -- Christianity and the Hua Miao : writing and power / Norma Diamond -- Christianity and Hakka identity / Nicole Constable -- Christian virgins in eighteenth-century Sichuan / Robert E. Entenmann -- Chinese women and Protestant Christianity at the turn of the twentieth century / Kwok Pui-Lan -- "Cradle of female talent" : the McTyeire home and school for girls, 1892-1937 / Heidi A. Ross -- "Oasis in a heathen land" : St. Hilda's school for girls, Wuchang, 1928-1936 / Judith Liu and Donald P. Kelly -- Christianity, feminism, and communism : the life and times of Deng Yuzhi / Emily Honig

Karl Gützlaff's approach to indigenization : the Chinese union / Jessie G. Lutz and R. Ray Lutz -- Contextualizing Protestant publishing in China : the Wenshe, 1924-1928 / Peter Chen-Main Wang -- Growth of independent Christianity in China, 1900-1937 / Daniel H. Bays -- Toward independence : Christianity in China under the Japanese occupation, 1937-1945 / Timothy Brook -- Y.T. Wu : a Christian leader under communism / Gao Wangzhi -- Holy Spirit Taiwan : Pentecostal and charismatic Christianity in the Republic of China / Murray A. Rubinstein

"This pathbreaking volume forces 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 tension that have often characterized relations between Christianity and China, for the past two centuries or more Christianity has been putting down roots within Chinese society, and it is still in the process of doing so. Thus Christianity is here interpreted not just as a Western religion that imposed itself on China, but one that was becoming a Chinese religion, as Buddhism did centuries ago. The essays are organized into four major sections: Christianity's role in Qing society, including local conflicts; ethnicity; women; and the indigenization of the Christian effort. The editor has provided section introductions to highlight the major themes in each section, as well as a general introduction."--Publisher description