Christianization Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! === China === [[File:Christian people singing at a camp fire.JPG|thumb|Chinese Christians singing at a camp fire|alt=modern photo of Chinese Christians playing guitar and singing by a campfire]] Joseph Tse-Hei Lee observes that, historically, Christianity has long had a tendency to flourish in areas where there is suffering, dislocation and warfare, and that this is evident in its modern development in China.{{sfn|Lee|2018|p=1}} [[Chaoshan]] in northeastern [[Guangdong Province]] has transitioned from a state of disintegration in the [[History of China#Late imperial China|late Imperial era (960β1895)]] to one of modern entrepreneurial cosmopolitanism with the aid of Christianization.{{sfn|Lee|2018|p=1}} Indigenization happened quickly and Christianization has survived through family lineage networks, which function like a single corporate unit, and native congregations.{{sfn|Lee|2018|pp=3, 5, 9}} Christianity grew as a grassroots movement in rural areas first, through self-propagation and native agency.{{sfn|Lee|2018|p=6}} This led to an overlap of religious, kinship and territorial identities, so that when the socio-political order shattered, the church was able to step in.{{sfn|Lee|2018|pp=6, 8, 9}} Lee sees this as revealing "the importance of the church as a major building block and a viable civic institution in the midst of widespread chaos and unrest".{{sfn|Lee|2018|p=8}} Lee writes that hostility toward Christianity as expressed in the [[Anti-Christian Movement (China)|Anti-Christian Movement]] (1925β1926) and in the anti-religious Maoist Era (1949β1976), "the impact of regime change, encounters with secular state-building, the church's involvement in transforming local religious and socio-economic landscapes, and the importance of religious agency", are all key factors in Chinese Christianity.{{sfn|Lee|2018|p=8}} There exists a multiplicity of Chinese Christian experiences and religiosity, and they all tend to reject the view that Christianity is incompatible with modern Chinese culture.{{sfn|Lee|2018|p=12}} Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page