From Missionary Cook to Counterrevolutionary

Subtitle: 
The Saga of a Chinese Christian Family
Activity Type: 
Lecture
Presenter: 
Jennifer Lin
Date: 
Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - 12:00
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Location: 
4130 Posvar Hall

Journalist Jennifer Lin examines the tumultuous past and present of Christianity in China through five generations of her family. A former Beijing correspondent for the Philadelphia Inquirer, Lin chronicles 150 years of family history in the recently published "Shanghai Faithful: Betrayal and Forgiveness in a Chinese Christian Family" (Rowman & Littlefield). The book includes a compelling cast: a doctor who treated opium addicts; a Penn-educated Chinese pastor; and the influential independent religious leader Watchman Nee, imprisoned after 1949 as a "counterrevolutionary."

UCIS Unit: 
Asian Studies Center