ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the ways Christianity shaped business behaviour among overseas Chinese entrepreneurs in Shanghai. However, it largely presents a masculine perspective and leaves unanswered questions such as the ways overseas Chinese expatriate women who follow their husbands to Shanghai put Christianity to work. Evangelism was a key goal within the fellowship and Canaan members felt the burden of evangelising to the indigenous Chinese. As expatriates, they shared the same experiences and faced similar challenges in negotiating lives in high mobility. The chapter counters prevalent understandings of religion as havens for people on the move by highlighting the tensions inherent in finding faith in motion through one particular case. For Pek Hoon, her Christian faith provides a basis on which exclusive bonds of friendship and mutual support drawing on patriarchal idealisations of what it means to be a wife are engendered and made real in a life of high mobility.
