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Within the next decade, China could be home to more Christians than any country in the world. Through the 150-year saga of a single family, this book vividly dramatizes the remarkable religious evolution of the world's most populous nation. Shanghai Faithful is both a touching family memoir and a chronicle of the astonishing spread of Christianity in China. Five generations of the Lin family - buffeted by history's crosscurrents and personal strife - bring to life an epoch that is still unfolding.A compelling cast - a poor fisherman, a doctor who treated opium addicts, an Ivy League-educated priest, and the charismatic preacher Watchman Nee - sets the book in motion. Veteran journalist Jennifer Lin takes readers from remote nineteenth-century mission outposts to the thriving house churches and cathedrals of today's China.
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I was born with the reporter's gene. It's all I ever wanted to do from the time I was in high school and listening to a young local radio reporter named Andrea Mitchell (yes, that Andrea Mitchell) interviewing my father about health-care costs. I had the good fortune of working for one of the finest newspapers in the business, The Philadelphia Inquirer, but always as a reporter, never an editor. Reporters had more fun. There's nothing like the rush of a big breaking story. I worked as a correspondent in New York, Washington, D.C. and Beijing. My kids were tots when I told them, "We're moving to China!" They thought Beijing was somewhere west of Philadelphia on the PA Turnpike. My husband, Bill Stieg, uprooted his journalism career and we traded in our station wagon forFlying Pigeon bicycles. I reported from all over Asia--Hong Kong during the 1997 handover to China; Jakarta during the fall of President Suharto; Taiwan during elections. But of all the news and issues I covered, the assignment that captivated me the most was the one right in front of me, the story of my Chinese family.For more on Shanghai Faithful, visit: https://www.shanghaifaithful.com/Or watch this Asia Society video: https://www.chinafile.com/books/shanghai-faithful
