Salt and Light, Volume 2: More Lives of Faith That Shaped Modern China

by Carol Lee Hamrin (Editor), Stacey Bieler (Editor)

Overview

The hidden seeds of the Christian renewal in China today include the outstanding Chinese Christians in Salt and Light 2, a dozen new life stories with lively anecdotes and photographs. These reformers made lasting contributions that shaped modern China. Working out of the limelight in their professions, they had quiet but powerful influence on early twentieth-century civil society. Motivated by their faith, they modeled essential virtues. This series helps recover a lost Christian heritage linked closely to a legacy of East-West cooperation in an earlier global era.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781606089552
Publisher:	Pickwick Publications
Publication date:	02/11/2010
Series:	Studies in Chinese Christianity , #2
Pages:	252
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Carol Lee Hamrin, a consultant and senior associate with Global China Center in Virginia, is the author of God and Caesar in China and Decision Making in Deng's China, as well as many book chapters and journal articles.

Stacey Bieler, a research associate with Global China Center, is the author of "Patriots" or "Traitors": A History of American-Educated Chinese Students. She is active in Community Volunteers for International Programs at Michigan State University.

Table of Contents

List of Names: Variations and Characters for Chapter Subjects x

Note on Romanization xi

Key to Pronunciation xi

Map of China xii

Introduction Carol Lee Hamrin Stacey Bieler 1

1 Yan Yongjing and Yan Huiqing

Father and Son Bridging East and West Carol Lee Hamrin 15

2 Maxiangbo

Pioneer of Educational Reform Jean-Paul Wiest 41

3 Kuang Fuzhuo

From Coolie to Educator and Humanitarian Chi Wai Cheung 61

4 The Xu Family

A Legacy of Service Stacey Bieler 78

5 Zhou Tingxu

Early Modernist Painter and World-Class Sportsman Kazimierz Poznanski 107

6 Yin Renxian

A Light in the Darkness Wenzong Wang 123

7 Sun Mingjing And Lü Jin'ai

Pioneers of Educational Films Ying Zhu 143

8 Zhang Boling

The Making of A New Chinese Citizen John Barwick 163

Time Line 183

Notes 191

List of Contributors 225

Sources of Illustrations 229

Index 231

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"The second volume of Salt and Light is a wonderful accomplishment. It takes as its scene the world's largest country during a century of turmoil and agony, and shows how a few heroic Chinese Christians tried to rescue and redeem their great country. The stories are without exception inspiring. At the same time, they shed much unsuspected light on the history both of China and of Christianity."
—Philip Jenkins,
author of The Lost History of Christianity

"The editors have assembled a strong team of authors, both Chinese and American, to write these compelling portraits. The subjects are lay Chinese Christians who were active between 1850 and 1950, all of whom had some contact with the United States and all of whom were leaders in building up Chinese society. For our day, which marvels at the rapid spread of Christianity in contemporary China, this book is especially important for showing how long-standing and how effective—but also how Chinese—have been the serious Christian contributions to Chinese society. This is a very important book."
—Mark Noll author of The New Shape of World Christianity

"Living up to the high standards of Volume 1, this book offers new, finely written portraits of Chinese Christian patriots of the twentieth century. Their stories are both fascinating and inspiring, and they open new windows for viewing the history of modern China. They help us see the moral challenges and cultural transformations that underlay the political and economic struggles of the Chinese revolution.
—Richard Madsen author of Democracy's Dharma and China's Catholics

"Carol Hamrin and Stacey Bieler have brought together another set of illuminating portraits of historical Chinese Christian leaders. We see here the men and women who sowed the seeds of spiritual, psychological, and physical transformation that helped make the Chinese church—and indeed China itself—what it is today. A truly fascinating book."
—Rob Gifford author of China Road

Editorial Reviews

"The second volume of Salt and Light is a wonderful accomplishment. It takes as its scene the world's largest country during a century of turmoil and agony, and shows how a few heroic Chinese Christians tried to rescue and redeem their great country. The stories are without exception inspiring. At the same time, they shed much unsuspected light on the history both of China and of Christianity."
—Philip Jenkins,
author of The Lost History of Christianity

"The editors have assembled a strong team of authors, both Chinese and American, to write these compelling portraits. The subjects are lay Chinese Christians who were active between 1850 and 1950, all of whom had some contact with the United States and all of whom were leaders in building up Chinese society. For our day, which marvels at the rapid spread of Christianity in contemporary China, this book is especially important for showing how long-standing and how effective—but also how Chinese—have been the serious Christian contributions to Chinese society. This is a very important book."
—Mark Noll author of The New Shape of World Christianity

"Living up to the high standards of Volume 1, this book offers new, finely written portraits of Chinese Christian patriots of the twentieth century. Their stories are both fascinating and inspiring, and they open new windows for viewing the history of modern China. They help us see the moral challenges and cultural transformations that underlay the political and economic struggles of the Chinese revolution.
—Richard Madsen author of Democracy's Dharma and China's Catholics

"Carol Hamrin and Stacey Bieler have brought together another set of illuminating portraits of historical Chinese Christian leaders. We see here the men and women who sowed the seeds of spiritual, psychological, and physical transformation that helped make the Chinese church—and indeed China itself—what it is today. A truly fascinating book."
—Rob Gifford author of China Road

From the Publisher