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This chapter is an intentionally personalized view of how the study came about, why the particular field site was chosen, and the place of the author’s own religious background in addressing the problem of Chinese Christianity in the context of China’s very rapid socio-economic and demographic changes. The methodology used was long-term participatory observation of a selected number of churches combined with the collection of personal and church histories alongside archival research, and was carried out through fieldwork within the networks of Christian relationships linking people and places.
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Kang, J. (2016). Discovering Linyi. In: House Church Christianity in China. Global Diversities. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30490-8_2
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