ABSTRACT
This chapter fills a gap in our knowledge on Christian transnationalism from the Global South by telling the story of a group of diasporic Chinese Christian merchants who hail from the southeast coastal city of Wenzhou and who are spreading Chinese commerce across the globe. It examines the business and religious lives of diasporic Wenzhou merchants at a time when China's likely role in the global market economy is compelling. The chapter focuses on a group of Wenzhou merchants who have formed large Christian communities at home, along with migrant enclaves in Paris. It shows how the mobile economic agents reconstruct moral and native-place identities in diaspora through the idiom of global Christianity. By highlighting the dynamic diasporic construction of locality, the chapter seeks to contribute to recent anthropological efforts to 'recontextualise place in terms of longstanding and ongoing histories of mobility'.
