Editing Christianization (section)

=== China ===
[[File:Christian people singing at a camp fire.JPG|thumb|Chinese Christians singing at a camp fire|alt=modern photo of Chinese Christians playing guitar and singing by a campfire]]
Joseph Tse-Hei Lee observes that, historically, Christianity has long had a tendency to  flourish in areas where there is suffering, dislocation and warfare, and that this is evident in its modern development in China.{{sfn|Lee|2018|p=1}} [[Chaoshan]] in northeastern [[Guangdong Province]] has transitioned from a state of disintegration in the [[History of China#Late imperial China|late Imperial era (960–1895)]] to one of modern entrepreneurial cosmopolitanism with the aid of Christianization.{{sfn|Lee|2018|p=1}} Indigenization happened quickly and Christianization has survived through family lineage networks, which function like a single corporate unit, and native congregations.{{sfn|Lee|2018|pp=3, 5, 9}}

Christianity grew as a grassroots movement in rural areas first, through self-propagation and native agency.{{sfn|Lee|2018|p=6}} This led to an overlap of religious, kinship and territorial identities, so that when the socio-political order shattered, the church was able to step in.{{sfn|Lee|2018|pp=6, 8, 9}} Lee sees this as revealing "the importance of the church as a major building block and a viable civic institution in the midst of widespread chaos and unrest".{{sfn|Lee|2018|p=8}}

Lee writes that hostility toward Christianity as expressed in the [[Anti-Christian Movement (China)|Anti-Christian Movement]] (1925–1926) and in the anti-religious Maoist Era (1949–1976), "the impact of regime change, encounters with secular state-building, the church's involvement in transforming local religious and socio-economic landscapes, and the importance of religious agency", are all key factors in Chinese Christianity.{{sfn|Lee|2018|p=8}} There exists a multiplicity  of Chinese Christian experiences and religiosity, and they all tend to reject the view that Christianity is incompatible with modern Chinese culture.{{sfn|Lee|2018|p=12}}