This second volume on Christianity in China covers the period from 1800 onwards up to the present, divided into four main periods, and dealing with the complexities of both Catholic and Protestant aspects. Also in this volume the reader will be guided to and through the Western and Chinese primary and secondary sources by a careful selection of major scholars in the field. With financial support from the Ricci Institute at the University of San Francisco Center for the Pacific Rim.

R.G. Tiedemann holds a University of London PhD in History and taught at the School of Oriental and African Studies for many years. He is a Scholars' Council member of the Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History, University of San Francisco, and has published extensively on the history of Christianity in 19th-century China. His most recent publication is the Reference Guide to Christian Missionary Societies in China: from the 16th to the 20th Century, (Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 2009).