This volume supplies essential information about China’s registered churches by someone who served as a missionary among them for a dozen years.
Book Review - The History of Christian Missions in Guangxi, China
I would highly recommend this book as an initial text on the history of Christian missions in China, an introduction to longer and more comprehensive works. As such, it is almost a “must read” for all those interested in how God used frail and faulty human instruments to establish what has been called “the Chinese church that will not die.”
Sorrow and Blood: Christian Mission in Contexts of Suffering, Persecution, and Martyrdom: Part I - Book Review (Revisited)
Christian Mission: How Christianity Became a World Religion (1) - Book Review (Revisited)
Dana Robert has given us a slim volume that tells the thrilling story of the spread of Christianity from its beginnings as a tiny minority in Palestine to today, when, as the “largest religion in the world,” “[t]he geographic range, cultural diversity, and organizational variety of Christianity surpass those of the other great world religions.”
Understanding Christian Mission: Participation in Suffering and Glory - Book Review (Revisited)
Witnesses to Power: Stories of God's Quiet Work in a Changing China - Book Review (Revisited)
Confronting Confucian Understandings of the Christian Doctrine of Salvation - Book Review (Revisited)
Christians in China, A.D. 600 to 2000 - Book Review (Revisited)
This is a marvelous book, and it represents the learned Sinology of a long line of French Roman Catholic scholars, going back for hundreds of years. Though he devotes most of his attention to the story of Roman Catholicism, the author does give fair and generous summaries of important aspects of Protestantism in China.