Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction / Paul Woods -- The role of indigenous Christians in the global church / David Killingray -- Missionaries in the making of vernacular Christianity in China / Lian Xi -- The dawn of indigenous consciousness – a ‘Chinese’ convert’s criticism of the western missionary / Kuo Ya-Pei -- Chinese literati and their Christian poems in the seventeenth century / Liu Yanyan -- Nineteenth-century churchgoers’ letters to the Dailaam-Hwsviaa Kaohoexpoix, an ‘Amoy dialect’ church periodical / Stephen Donoho -- Christianizing China for the sake of China: Li Guanfang and her republican dream / Zhou Yun -- Translating the bible into Chinese : the contribution of Chinese translators / Monica Romano -- The Chinese clergy and church autonomy in the diocese of Kwangsi-Hunan, 1909-1950 / Peter Cunich -- An indigenous CIM medical missionary and the national hero : unveiling complexities in the story of Dr. Kao Gin-Cheng / Lauren Pfister and Liu Jihua -- Revisionist women’s work for women : the contribution of native women workers in canton / Christina Wong -- Wang Hengtong : a native Chinese Christian teacher’s approach and practice, 1902-1915 / Bai Limin -- Identity, maturity, and leadership : Chinese Christians and the negotiation of otherness at the boxer rebellion / Paul Woods -- The contribution of Ni Tuosheng (Watchman Nee) / Stephen Williams -- ‘Abolish this great evil’ : Chinese Christians’ opposition to opium trafficking / Charles Weber -- Torn between two worlds: Rev. Shoki Coe, domesticity and the Taiwanese self-determination movement / Niki Alsford -- The hybridization and localization of the colony and the making of Hong Kong Christian leaders : three oral history accounts / Kwok Wai Luen -- Faith-Based engagement in China’s harmonious society : a study of an indigenous, faith-based ngo’s organizational culture and response to the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake / Easten Law.