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“Religious organisations do not exist in a vacuum, and they cannot therefore be studied in isolation from their sociocultural environments.”1 It is indeed a “truth universally acknowledged” that religious groups should be analysed within the context of the society of which they are a part. Academics researching Christianity in the Chinese context have increasingly emphasised the need to view religion from the perspective of its interaction with the state. The reason for this is that until the twentieth century, religion was closely connected with the political and social sphere, as the Chinese emperor held the power to allow or prohibit any religious group.2 Following this principle, the communist government has pursued control of religious life in the People’s Republic of China.3 It is, therefore, necessary to examine the dynamic processes of the various social, political and cultural negotiations that the representatives of Christian groups encounter within an authoritarian Chinese society, where Christianity is a “foreign” religious system brought to China by “colonial powers”. Even today, some Chinese refer to Christianity as yangjiao, a term meaning “foreign religion”.4 Conversion to Christianity can still be

Negotiations between Christian communities and authoritarian China : some comments on the current state of scholarship on Christianity in China