Query: Fredrik Fällman

title: The cultures of ancient Xinjiang, Western China: crossroads of the silk roads
abstract: Xinjiang is a fascinating area and indeed a crossroads with a multifaceted history, and any serious publication deepening the knowledge of the area is to be commended. The present volume is a joint.

title: Liu Xiaofeng. Trans. Sino Theology and the Philosophy of History: A Collection of Essays by Liu Xiaofeng:

title: Christian Women in Chinese Society: The Anglican Story ed. by Wai Ching Angela Wong and Patricia P. K. Chiu

title: Evangelisation in the Protestant Church in China Reflections of a Western Sinologist
abstract: The rapid development of the Chinese Protestant church since the 1980s registered or unregistered does not have one single or merely a few explanations, but is the result of several varying factors. Nor is there a coordinated or unified specific strategy for evangeli sation, largely because of the decentralised and uncoordinated structure of the Chinese Protestant church. National leaders of the China Christian Council (CCC) and the Three Self Patriotic Movement (TSPM) and teachers at the national Jinling Union Theological Seminary are to some extent preoccupied with ideas of a common Chinese Protestant ecclesiology, but there are also many tendencies towards a return of denominational ism and less of unity.1 Since 2014 the Chinese partystate has advocated a "sinicization of Christianity" jidujiao Zhongguohua Ji Du Jiao Zhong Guo Hua which adds yet another dimension to these issues.2 From a more practical perspective, there is an element of straightforward ness in the approach of many Chinese Protestants towards nonChristians that differs from the European context. Besides all this, the transforming power of faith is all too often neglected as an element of academic study. What happens more concretely then in regard to evangelisation? The PRC constitution provides for "freedom of religious belief " (SS 36) but says not much about the actual pro tection of religious expression and activity, including evangelisation, not more than that it should be in the form of "normal religious activity" (zhengchang zongjiao huodong Zheng Chang Zong Jiao Huo Dong The expression about "normality" is particularly troublesome, and is one of several signs that the CPC and the PRC government would like to assume the right of interpretation over religious matters and even theology. Since the CPC strongly promotes

title: Public Faith? Five Voices of Chinese Christian Thought
abstract: The article sets Christianity into the perspective of contemporary China and its challenges, and discusses the role of intellectuals, from the "Cultural Christians" of the 1980s to the younger generation of "public intellectual" Christians of today. The five scholars represented in this issue are presented and put into context as voices in contemporary Chinese society.

title: Christianity. Edited by Zhuo Xinping. Religious Studies in Contemporary China Collection 3. Leiden: Brill, 2013. xxxi 422 pages. Hardcover. isbn 978 90 04 17452 8. us$209.

title: 9Defining the Past and Shaping the Future

title: Useful Opium? 'Adapted religion' and 'harmony' in contemporary China
abstract: Pragmatism has been a leading feature of Communist Party policies since Mao Zedong's death. The attitude to religion has been something of an exception with many restrictions to the freedom of religion stipulated in the constitution. In recent years, while stressing the 'harmonious society' there has been a change in the view of religion. Recognizing the 'spiritual vacuum' in China after Mao, the party has seen the need for a controlled spiritual development that could also support the economic development. However, in this process the party has tried to control not only religious activity but also religious content and to use it for its own purposes. This is in direct opposition to Marx and Lenin's views on 'religion as opium' and indicates that the party is de facto using 'a reversed opium theory'

title: Chinese Christianity: An Interplay between Global and Local Perspectives by Peter Tze Ming Ng (review)

title: Manskliga rattigheter, Kina och religion