The untold story of Lin Zhao, a martyr in Mao’s China, with Xi Lian [MIPodcast #96]

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Christianity, Education, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 10 September 2019

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

One of the most outspoken critics of Chairman Mao’s cultural revolution was a young poet and journalist named Lin Zhao. She was a Christian convert, then a member of the Communist Party, then an enemy of the state who paid for her opposition with her life. She was executed by firing squad. And her story would have vanished—along with the lives of some two million other Chinese who were killed during the cultural revolution—but she left a record. She wrote her witness in her own blood. In this episode you’ll encounter one of Christianity’s most remarkable martyrs of the twentieth century.

Professor Xi Lian joins us to discuss his latest book, Blood Letters: The Untold Story of Lin Zhao, A Martyr in Mao’s China.

About the Guest

XI LIAN, Professor of World Christianity at Duke Divinity School, is the author of Blood Letters: The Untold Story of Lin Zhao, A Martyr in Mao’s China (2018). His other books include The Conversion of Missionaries: Liberalism in American Protestant Missions in China, 1907-1932 (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997) and Redeemed by Fire: The Rise of Popular Christianity in Modern China (Yale University Press, 2010). Dr. Lian’s other research projects include the flourishing of Christianity among minority peoples on the margins of the Chinese state and the emergence of Protestant elites and their prominent, if also precarious, role in the search for civil society in today’s China.

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0:00.0	It's the Maxwell Institute podcast. I'm Blair Hodges.
0:05.3	One of the most outspoken critics of Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution in China
0:09.5	was a young poet and journalist named Lynn Jha. She was a Christian convert and then a member
0:14.7	of the Communist Party, then an enemy of the state who paid for her opposition with her life.
0:19.4	She was executed by firing squad. And her story
0:22.6	would have vanished, along with the lives of two million other Chinese who were killed during
0:26.0	the Cultural Revolution, but she left a record. She wrote her witness in her own blood. In this episode,
0:32.9	you'll encounter one of Christianity's most remarkable martyrs of the 20th century.
0:37.7	Professor Xi Leon is our guest.
0:39.4	He's Professor of World Christianity at Duke Divinity School,
0:42.3	and we're talking about his remarkable new book,
0:44.7	Blood Letters, The Untold Story of Lin Cha, a Martyr in Mao's China.
0:49.8	Questions and comments about this and other episodes of the Maxwell Institute podcast
0:53.5	can be sent to me at MI Podcast at BYU.edu.
0:57.0	Shilion joins us today at the Maxwell Institute. He's a professor of world Christianity at Duke Divinity School.
1:06.0	He wrote a fascinating book that I give my highest recommendation. This book is called Blood Letters, the
1:11.0	untold story of Lin Cha, a martyr in Mao's China. She, thank you so much for being here today.
1:16.9	Thanks for having me. And I should also let people know you're giving a guest lecture. That's
1:20.3	going to happen later today. So by the time this episode comes out, people will be able to watch
1:23.9	that lecture on the Maxwell Institute's YouTube channel as well. Let's start off
1:28.3	Xi by painting a picture of China's political environment when Lin Cha was born in 1932.
1:34.3	Lin Xiaa was really born into a turbulent time. It was a post-dynastic China. The imperial system
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