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A historical overview of Chinese Christian activism : institutional change toward democracy / Fenggang Yang and Chris White -- Taiwan under martial law and Presbyterian responses / Jonathan Seitz -- To unite as one body : the Presbyterians and changing identities in Taiwan / Magdaléna Rychetská -- Religious discourse, social participation, and identity construction of Hong Kong Protestant Christians from 1970 to 1997 : an analysis of three oral histories / Wai Luen Kwok -- Contesting for religious freedom in China : the case of Hong Kong Christian social activism from 2014 to 2018 / Fuk-tsang Ying -- Identity negotiation and social activism : Hong Kong Christians during the Umbrella Movement / Jenny McGill, Kim Kuen Ip, Jeffrey Chiu, and Timotheus Mui -- Hong Kong theology as a construction of postcolonial theology / Tsz Him Lai -- Social media as a tool of social activism : public theology of the umbrella city cyberchurch / Calida Chu -- Facing society from the Chinese academy : cultural Christians, Sino-Christian theology, and academics as activists / George Dunn and Xinzhang Zhang -- Religious policy on foreign Christians in China : international Christian fellowships and the regulations on foreigners' religious activities / Shiho Murakami -- Gospel-leafleting, three-self-affiliated congregations and rule of law in the PRC / Mark McLeister -- One foot above liberalism : Wang Yi's search for civil society / Yucheng Bai -- Christian faith confessions in the Chinese Jiating church context : the discourse of sovereignty and the political order / Yan Liu -- Baorong Duoyuan : a proposal for religious freedom in China / Bob Fu -- Migration, conversion, and transnational activism in a Vancouver Chinese Church / Joshua Tan -- 'One more Christian, one fewer activist'--does Christianity squelch activism? Hypotheses from studying former Tiananmen activists who converted to Protestant Christianity / Carsten Vala.