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LINKS
- Get to know our guest, Professor Xi Lian.
- Read Professor Lian's book, Blood Letters: The untold story of Lin Zhao, a martyr in Mao's China.
- You might also like to seek out Professor Lian's other relevant books Redeemed by Fire: The rise of popular Christianity in modern China and also The Conversion of Missionaries: Liberalism in American Protestant Missions in China, 1907–1932.
- Meet our other guest I'Ching Thomas.
- Read I'Ching Thomas' book, Jesus The Path to Human Flourishing : The Gospel for the Cultural Chinese
- Read more about Daoism (or Taoism).
- Get a broader background on Chinese religion from National Geographic.
- More on the All Souls celebrations around China.
- Dig deeper into the idea of 'Actionless Action' or 'Wu Wei' here.
- Read the Analects of Confucius.
- Find out more about Christianity in communist China in this article from The Gospel Coalition.
- Winfried Corduan's book Neighbouring Faiths is referenced by I'Ching Thomas about polytheism vs monotheism (amongst other things).
- Read more about Christianity in China from this article from 2020 in The Economist.
- And this from Time about the imprisonment of a pastor Wang Yi (who led one of China's most well-known underground churches).
- Here's more about the 'sinicization of religion' in China from the Lausanne Movement.
- Read this article from the New York Times about China's 12 core socialist values.
- Christianity's growth in China is hard to predict, but Professor Fenggang Yang from Purdue University has given it a crack, estimating that China will become the largest Christian country in the world by 2030.
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