{"product_id":"constructing-chinas-jerusalem-nanlai-cao-9780804770804","title":"Constructing China's Jerusalem: Christians, Power, and Place in Contemporary Wenzhou","description":"\u003cp\u003eDrawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth life history interviews, this illuminating book provides an intimate portrait of contemporary Chinese Christianity in the context of a modern, commercialized economy. In vivid detail, anthropologist Nanlai Cao explores the massive resurgence of Protestant Christianity in the southeastern coastal city of Wenzhou--popularly referred to by its residents as \"China's Jerusalem\"--a nationwide model for economic development and the largest urban Christian center in China. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCao's study of Chinese Christians delves into the dynamics of activities such as banqueting, network building, property acquisition, mate selection, marriage ritual, migrant work, and education. Unlike previous research that has mainly looked at older, rural, and socially marginalized church communities, Cao trains his focus on economically powerful, politically connected, moralizing Christian entrepreneurs. In framing the city of Wenzhou as China's Jerusalem, newly rich Chinese Christians seek not only to express their leadership aspirations in a global religious movement but also to assert their place, identity, and elite status in post-reform Chinese society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nanlai Cao\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0804770808\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804770804\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/04\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.61lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristian Century\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/18\/2011 pg. 23","brand":"Nanlai Cao","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48065149763839,"sku":"9780804770804","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6dbb3f87-e2e1-4bb4-85e7-4b0b52a6f7a7.jpg?v=1768673324","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/constructing-chinas-jerusalem-nanlai-cao-9780804770804","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}