Failing to contain religion : the emergence of a Protestant movement in contemporary China
The dissertation examines the rapid growth of Chinese Protestant numbers from fewer than a million members in 1949 to more than 40 million Chinese today. I analyze the Chinese Communist Party regime's top-down efforts to contain Protestantism within churches under the Three Self Protestant Movement (TSPM) mass organization and the societal resistance by Protestants worshiping in unregistered churches outside Party-state control
Thesis, Dissertation, English, 2008