Patriotic cooperation : : the border services of the Church of Christ in China and Chinese church-state relations, 1920s-1950s / / by Diana Junio.

• Superior document: Religion in Chinese Societies, Volume 12
• VerfasserIn: Junio, Diana,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill Nijhoff,, 2017.; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Religion in Chinese societies ; Volume 12.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (417 pages) :; illustrations.

In Patriotic Cooperation , Diana Junio offers an account of a cooperative venture between the Nationalist government and the Church of Christ in China, known as the Border Service Department, that carried out substantial social programs from 1939 to 1955 in China’s Southwestern border areas. Numerous scholars have argued that Chinese state-religion relations have been characterized primarily by conflict and antagonism. By examining the history of cooperation seen in the Border Service Department case, Diana Junio contends that these relations have not always been antagonistic; on the contrary, under certain conditions the state and the church could achieve a mutually beneficial goal through successful cooperation, with a strong degree of sincerity on both sides.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- The Establishment of the Church of Christ in China -- From Petition to Cooperation -- The Cooperative Creation of the Border Service Department -- Serving the Border Peoples with a Wartime Agenda -- The Challenges and New Focus in the bsd’s Postwar Services -- Embedding Evangelism within the Border Service Programs -- Different Regimes, the Same Patriotism -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.