Christian Entrepreneurs and the Post-Mao State: An Ethnographic Account of Church-State Relations in China's Economic Transition

This paper examines the rise of a group of affluent urban Christians in the post-Mao market transition to shed light on China's church-state relations in the reform era. Based on ethnographic data collected in Wenzhou, the most Christianized Chinese city and a pioneer in developing China's...

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Main Author: Cao, Nanlai (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Oxford Univ. Press 2007
In: Sociology of religion
Year: 2007, Volume: 68, Issue: 1, Pages: 45-66
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