Shanghai faithful : betrayal and forgiveness in a Chinese Christian family / Jennifer Lin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lin, Jennifer, 1959- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lin, Jennifer, 1959-.

Lin, Jennifer.

Lin family.

Christian biography--China.

Christian biography.

China.

China--Church history.

Church history.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiii, 317 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, 2017.

Summary:

"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 unfolding. A compelling cast - a poor fisherman, a doctor who treated opium addicts, an Ivy League--educated priest, and the charismatic preacher Watchman Nee - sets the book in motion. Veteran journalist Jennifer Lin takes readers from remote nineteenth-century mission outposts to the thriving house churches and cathedrals of today's China. The Lin family - and the book's central figure, the Reverend Lin Pu-chi - offer witness to China's tumultuous past, up to and beyond the betrayals and madness of the Cultural Revolution, when the family's resolute faith led to years of suffering. Forgiveness and redemption bring the story full circle. With its sweep of history and the intimacy

Contents:

Prologue: Shanghai, 1956

Part I. Foreign ghosts

Cook: Fujian Province, mid-1800s

Doctor: Fujian Province, 1890

Firstborn: Fuzhou, 1907

Part II. Patriots

Light and truth: Shanghai, 1913

A modern man: aboard the SS Nanking, 1918

Second daughter: Fuzhou, 1920

Running dog: Fuzhou, 1924

Alma mater: Fuzhou, 1928

Part III. A home divided

Watchman Nee: Shanghai, 1932

Island of Shanghai: Shanghai, 1937

Bund to boardwalk: Shanghai, 1949

Part IV. New order

American wolves; Shanghai, 1950

Missing: Shanghai, 1955

Prelude: Shanghai, 1957

Part V. Bad elements

Lane 170: Shanghai, 1966

Yellow music: Shanghai, 1968

Barefoot doctor: Jilin Province, 1969

Passages: Shanghai, 1971

Father, hello!: Shanghai, 1972

Lost: Jilin Province, 1973

Part VI. Revival

Faith: Fuzhou, 2015.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Keyes Fund bookplate.

Other Format:

Online version

Lin, Jennifer, 1959- author. Shanghai faithful

ISBN:

9781442256934

1442256931