Christianity in China
Subtitle: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: March 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 508
ISBN-13: 9780804736510
Subjects: Christianity; History of religion; History; History - General History; Religion; China; Asia - China; Christianity - General; Christianity - History - General; History / China
First sentence: In the concrete cases provided, the detail in which they are described, and the variety of sources employed, several of the chapters in this section enable us to test and modify two major interpretive schemes put forward in recent years to explain the links between Christianity and Chinese society, those of Jacques Gernet and Paul Cohen.