China, Christianity, and the Question of Culture

Christian missionaries in China have been viewed as agents of Western imperialist values. Yang Huilin, leading scholar of Sino-Christian studies, has dedicated himself to re-evaluating the history of Christianity in China and sifting through intellectual and religious results of missionary efforts in China. Yang focuses upon local histories of Christianity to chronicle its enduring good. China, Christianity, and the Question of Culture illuminates the unexplored links between Christianity and Chinese culture, from Christianity and higher education in China to the rural acculturation of Christian ideology by indigenous communities. In a distinctly Chinese voice, Yang presents the legacy of Western missionaries in a new light, contributing greatly to now vigorous Sino-Christian theology.

Yang Huilin is Professor of Comparative Literature and Religious Studies, and Vice-President of Renmin University of China. He is the author of many works, including Theological Hermeneutics: Word of God & Words of Man, and recently co-editor of Sino-Christian Studies in China (Cambridge, 2006). He resides in Beijing, China.