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Negotiating the Christian Past in China: Memory and Missions in Contemporary Xiamen by Jifeng Liu is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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At the turn of the twenty-first century, Xiamen’s pursuit of World Heritage Site designation from UNESCO stimulated considerable interest in the city’s Christian past. History enthusiasts, both Christian and non-Christian, devoted themselves to reinterpreting the legacy of missionaries and challenged official narratives of Christianity’s troubled associations with Western imperialism. In this book, Jifeng Liu documents the tension that has inevitably emerged between the established official history and these popular efforts. This volume elucidates the ways in which Christianity has become an integral part of Xiamen, a Chinese city profoundly influenced by Western missionaries. Drawing on extensive interviews, locally produced histories, and observations of historical celebrations, Liu provides an intimate portrait of the people who navigate ideological issues to reconstruct a Christian past, reproduce religious histories, and redefine local power structures in the shadow of the state. Liu makes a compelling argument that a Christian past is being constructed that combines official frameworks, unofficial practices, and nostalgia into social memory, a realm of dynamic negotiation tha
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Jifeng Liu
- Publisher
- Pennsylvania State University Press
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780271093185
- Category
- nonfiction