Table of Contents

I. Introduction

Burdened Past, Hopeful Future
Stephen Uhalley, Jr.

Christiahity and China: Universal Teaching from the West
John W. Witek, S.J.

Chinese Perspective: A Brief Review of the Historical Research on Christianity in China
Zhang Kaiyuan

II. China & Christianity in the Traditional Past

China and the West: The Image of Europe and its Impact
Erik Zürcher

Does Heaven Speak? Revelation in the Confucian and Christian Traditions
Paul A. Rule

Christianity in Late Ming and Early Qing China as a Case of Cultural Transmission
Nicolas Standaert, S.J.

Chinese Renaissance: The Role of Jesuits in the Early Modernity of China
Li Tiangang

The Problem of Chinese Rites in Eighteenth-Century Sichuan
Robert Entenmann

Sino-French Scientific Relations through the French Jesuits and the Academie Royale des Sciences in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Han Qi

China in the German "Geistesgeschichte" in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Claudia von Collani

The Russian Orthodox Church in China
Dinara V. Doubrovskaia

III. China & Christianity in Modern and Contemporary History and Beyond

China and Protestantism: Historical Perspectives, 1807-1949
Jessie Lutz

Protestant Christianity in China Today: Fragile, Fragmented, Flourishing
Ryan Dunch

Hungarian Missionaries in China
Peter Vamos

Beyond Orthodoxy: Catholicism as Chinese Folk Religion
Richard Madsen

From Past Contributions to Present Opportunities: The Catholic Church and Education in Chinese Mainland during the Last 150 Years
Jean Paul-Wiest

Christianity and China’s Minority Nationalities—Faith and Unbelief
Ralph R. Covell

Discussion on "Cultural Christians" in China
Z huo Xinping

The Catholic Church in Post 1997 Hong Kong: Dilemma in Church-State Relations
Sr. Beatrice Leung

Christianity in Modern Taiwan: Struggling over the Path of Contextualization
Peter Chen-main Wang

Christianity and China: Toward Further Dialogue
Philip L. Wickeri