ABSTRACT
It is arguable that there has never been a time where a society has changed as dramatically and rapidly as China in the past 25 years. And never has change in a society affected so many people as deeply and completely as in present-day China. The speed, ubiquity, and thoroughness of the change happening in recent decades have led people to call for new interpretations of history and of China’s role and position in it. This question is equally asked by political, economic, and cultural analysts as by Christians. Reflecting on the present naturally leads to reflection on the past: How is the present connected with it? Or does the present bring something radically new?
