ABSTRACT
The CCP requires Protestant Three Self Patriotic Movement and Christian Council association leaders to publicly reinforce an image of state domination. The CCP also stokes internal conflict in the Protestant community. But the regime’s control strategy also reveals weaknesses, because Protestant associations vary greatly in their power over subordinates and because a generation of young, ambitious, and zealous Protestants is rising inside the TSPM/CC. Under such conditions, Protestants adroitly turn the façade of domination into negotiation to the benefit of Protestants.
