Shanghai Faithful: Betrayal and Forgiveness in a Chinese Christian Family

Within the next decade, China could be home to more Christians than any country in the world. Through the 150—year saga of a single family, this book vividly dramatizes the remarkable religious evolution of the world’s most populous nation. Shanghai Faithful is both a touching family memoir and a chronicle of the astonishing spread of Christianity in China. Five generations of the Lin family—buffeted by history’s crosscurrents and personal strife—bring to life an epoch that is still unfoldi...