Lian Xi is Professor of World Christianity at Duke University and an Associate in Research at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University. He is the author of many books, including, most recently, Blood Letters: The Untold Story of Lin Zhao, a Martyr in Mao's China, and Redeemed by Fire: The Rise of Popular Christianity in Modern China. David Bradley is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at La Trobe University. He is the author of A Grammar of Lisu and coauthor of Language Endangerment. Ralph A. Litzinger is Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology and is affiliated with the Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Department and Duke Global Health Institute at Duke University. He is the author of Other Chinas: The Yao and the Politics of National Belonging and coeditor of Ghost Protocol: Development and Displacement in Global China.
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"A compelling analysis of Christianity in highland Asia. It examines how their Christianity enables the Indigenous peoples of this region to creatively construct their identity and ethnicity on their own terms amid the bewildering forces of colonialism and nation-making processes. Instead of analyzing the origins of Christianity as simply a colonial encounter, the contributors demonstrate how it provides social cohesion and intellectual, cultural, and political capital." -Arkotong Longkumer, author of Reform, Identity and Narratives of Belonging: The Heraka Movement in Northeast India