Jennifer Lin

Shanghai Faithful (eBook, PDF)

Betrayal and Forgiveness in a Chinese Christian Family

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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 bookin 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 of long-hidden family stories, Shanghai Faithful offers a fresh look at Christianity in China-past, present, and future.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798765180174
• Artikelnr.: 74842241

Autorenporträt

Jennifer Lin is an award-winning journalist and former reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer. In a distinguished thirty-year career, she served as the paper's New York financial correspondent, Washington foreign affairs reporter, and Asia bureau chief, based in China.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Characters Note on Spellings and Reporting Introduction Prologue: Shanghai
1956 Part I. Foreign Ghosts 1 Cook: Fujian Province
Mid-1800s 2 Doctor: Fujian Province
1890 3 Firstborn: Fuzhou
1907 Part II. Patriots 4 Light and Truth: Shanghai
1913 5 A Modern Man: Aboard SS Nanking
1918 6 Second Daughter: Fuzhou
1920 7 Running Dog: Fuzhou
1924 8 Alma Mater: Fuzhou
1928 Part III. A House Divided 9 Watchman Nee: Shanghai
1932 10 Island of Shanghai: Shanghai
1937 11 Bund to Boardwalk: Shanghai
1949 Part IV. New Order 12 American Wolves: Shanghai
1950 13 Missing: Shanghai
1955 14 Prelude: Shanghai
1957 Part V. Bad Elements 15 Lane 170: Shanghai
1966 16 Yellow Music: Shanghai
1968 17 Barefoot Doctor: Jilin Province
1969 18 Passages: Shanghai
1971 19 Father
Hello! Shanghai
1972 20 Lost: Jilin Province
1973 Part IV. Revival 21 Faith: Fuzhou
2015 Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography