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Charmaine Chan

Shanghai Faithful
By Jennifer Lin
Rowman & Littlefield
In an article published in 1932, in the Chinese-language Faith newspaper, the US-educated Anglican priest Lin Pu-chi wrote that the study of China’s church history was “indispensable” because “every society […] must use the past as a mirror”. He also lamented that books on the Chinese church were scarce. More than 80 years later, Jennifer Lin – his granddaughter and a former journalist with The Philadelphia Inquirer – has contributed to our understanding of Christianity in China, through the history of five generations of her family. Her protagonists include a “counter-revolutionary” uncle, Watchman Nee, whose followers worshipped in China’s off-the-grid house churches. His story and those of other relatives became Lin’s obsession after a question whispered to her father during a family reunion in Shanghai in 1979, seven years after Nee had died in a labour camp. The author and her father – who had not returned to China since leaving for the US in the 1940s – had been clueless about the political drama that had played out within the walls of the family house in the International Settlement. As she remembered the relatives whom she met, she wondered: “Who were the victims? Who the collaborators?”


The story of Christianity in China, as told through five generations of one family

In telling the story of the relatives who stayed in Shanghai when her own family left for the US, Jennifer Lin provides a valuable account of the church in China

James Hudson Taylor, an English missionary who made his mark in China

James Hudson Taylor (centre) with missionaries from his group, in 1891. Photos: OMF International; Helen Leavey

The British founder of the China Inland Mission, James Hudson Taylor, and his first wife, Maria, in 1862. 

The China Inland Mission Building, the organisation’s former London headquarters.

Taylor.

A map created by the China Inland Mission in 1948.

Members of the China Inland Mission group that sailed to China in 1866.

A tea party with Taylor in China.

Reginald Bazire and Eileen Brown on their wedding day, in Shanghai, in 1927.

Plaques in Barnsley depict sites associated with Taylor.

The Salem Wesleyan Reform Church, in Barnsley.

The interior of the church.

James Hudson Taylor IV (left); Mary Previte

In ‘China’s Jerusalem’, ‘anti-terror cameras’ the new cross for churches to bear

Lingbo Church in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province. Churches in the city have been ordered to install surveillance cameras. Photo: Simon Song

A church at Pingyang county, Wenzhou city, Zhejiang proivnce. It is said that the local government has informed the church the Red Cross on top will be put down. 22JUN14 === Photo by Simon Song ===

When China welcomed its first Catholic missionary

A boy offers candles at a Sunday mass in the state-approved Xuanwumen Catholic Church, otherwise known as the South Cathedral in Beijing. Picture: EPA

Handout image shows friar John of Montecorvino, an Italian missionary who arrived in China in 1294 and built churches and baptized the local population.

A rare glimpse into how an ‘underground’ Chinese Catholic church celebrates Christmas

Catholics queue up to enter the state-approved Xuanwumen Catholic Church, otherwise known as the South Cathedral in Beijing, on Christmas Eve. Photo: EPA

Photos taken by mimi on Xmas Eve in gz outside Shishi Sacred Heart Cathedral with thousands of people queuing up for a mass amid heavy police presence. 24DEC16 SCMP/ Mimi Lau

Faithful from a Catholic church take part in a Christmas parade in Shanghai, China December 24, 2016. REUTERS/Aly Song

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In telling the story of the relatives who stayed in Shanghai when her own family left for the US, Jennifer Lin provides a valuable account of the church in China


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.css-1c6uqr6{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;overflow-wrap:break-word;}In telling the story of the relatives who stayed in Shanghai when her own family left for the US, Jennifer Lin provides a valuable account of the church in China

In telling the story of the relatives who stayed in Shanghai when her own family left for the US, Jennifer Lin provides a valuable account of the church in China