Daniel H. Bays's A New History of Christianity in China, Wiley-Blackwell, 2012, is the standard modern academic survey of Chinese Christianity from its seventh-century beginnings to the present. Its final chapters cover the reopening of churches from September 1979 after the Cultural Revolution and the strong subsequent growth of both registered, Three-Self, and unregistered house-church Protestant Christianity, growth Bays and other scholars place at roughly ten percent annually since 1979.
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Major academic press survey by a leading specialist in the history of Protestant Christianity in China, part of the Wiley-Blackwell Guides to Global Christianity series and widely reviewed in the specialist journals; used for the 1979 reopening and subsequent growth of Chinese Protestant Christianity. NotesUsed for the growth of Protestant Christianity in China, 1979 onward.
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AuthorDaniel H. Bays
PublisherWiley-Blackwell
Publication Year2012
Source Typeacademic monograph
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