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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China series featuring Xi Lian — Christian Social Activism in Contemporary China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Xi Lian\, David C. Steinmetz Distinguished Professor of World Christianity\, Duke University Divinity School; Visiting Scholar\, Harvard Divinity School \n\n\n\nDiscussant: James Robson\, James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard College Professor\, Harvard University; Director\, Harvard-Yenching Institute \n\n\n\nIn his Asian tour in 1920\, Bertrand Russell noted the prominence of Christians in the Korean independence movement\, adding that in Korea “a Christian was practically synonymous with a bomb-thrower.” This talk explores a less colorful but no less pronounced role of Christians in rights defense and political dissent in China a century later. \n\n\n\nProfessor Lian is David C. Steinmetz Distinguished Professor of World Christianity at Duke Divinity School. His research is focused on China’s modern encounter with Christianity. His first book\, The Conversion of Missionaries (1997)\, is a critical study of American Protestant missions against the backdrop of rising Chinese nationalism in the early twentieth century. His second book\, Redeemed by Fire: The Rise of Popular Christianity in Modern China (2010)\, winner of the 2011 Christianity Today Book Award\, examines the development of missionary Christianity into a vibrant\, indigenous faith of the Chinese masses. Blood Letters: The Untold Story of Lin Zhao\, a Martyr in Mao’s China (2018) is his most recent book. It is the first authoritative\, documented biography of the most important political dissident in Mao’s China\, whose open opposition to communism was sustained by her Christian faith. Dr. Lian’s other research projects include the flourishing of Christianity among minority peoples on the margins of the Chinese state and the emergence of Protestant elites and their prominent\, if also precarious\, role in the search for civil society in today’s China. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-xi-lian-christian-social-activism-in-contemporary-china/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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