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Portraying Chinese Christianity: The American Press and U.S.-China Relations since the 1920s

Portraying Chinese Christianity: The American Press and U.S.-China Relations since the 1920s 81 Portraying Chinese Christianity: The American Press and U.S.-China Relations since the 1920s Dong Wang Gordon College In April 2006, the New Statesman of London ran a cover story titled “China Goes to Church,” which revealed how Christianity has “become cool” in the “spiritual marketplace” that is part of the hurly-burly of China today: Seventy percent of the world’s Christmas decorations are produced in China, and many Chinese now view the festival as an unofficial holiday. On 25 December, in cities across the country, shopping malls are fes- tooned with Christmas trees. In the new China, Christianity is a source of fascination, almost a craze, yet its precise nature remains a puzzle. . . . University students sport crosses and join Bible groups. Smart new churches in Chinese cities are packed on Sundays. . . . Television soaps imported from South Korea, where 30 per cent of the population is Christian, offer a “Christian lifestyle with an Asian accent,” which is as eagerly consumed and copied in China as Korean pop music and fash- ion. At the same time, American missionaries, employed as cheap teach- ers of English at Chinese universities since religious controls were relaxed in the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of American-East Asian Relations Brill

Portraying Chinese Christianity: The American Press and U.S.-China Relations since the 1920s

Wang, Dong
Journal of American-East Asian Relations , Volume 13 (1-2): 81 – Jan 1, 2006
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Brill
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© 2006 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1058-3947
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1876-5610
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10.1163/187656106793645169
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81 Portraying Chinese Christianity: The American Press and U.S.-China Relations since the 1920s Dong Wang Gordon College In April 2006, the New Statesman of London ran a cover story titled “China Goes to Church,” which revealed how Christianity has “become cool” in the “spiritual marketplace” that is part of the hurly-burly of China today: Seventy percent of the world’s Christmas decorations are produced in China, and many Chinese now view the festival as an unofficial holiday. On 25 December, in cities across the country, shopping malls are fes- tooned with Christmas trees. In the new China, Christianity is a source of fascination, almost a craze, yet its precise nature remains a puzzle. . . . University students sport crosses and join Bible groups. Smart new churches in Chinese cities are packed on Sundays. . . . Television soaps imported from South Korea, where 30 per cent of the population is Christian, offer a “Christian lifestyle with an Asian accent,” which is as eagerly consumed and copied in China as Korean pop music and fash- ion. At the same time, American missionaries, employed as cheap teach- ers of English at Chinese universities since religious controls were relaxed in the

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