The search for Chinese Christianity in the republican period (1912-1949)

Modern Asian Studies

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 851-898

  Xi, Lian ^a  

^a HANOVER COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; RELIGION; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 6944224299     PISSN: 0026749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0026749X04001283     Document Type: Article

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