A new book named Before the Bamboo Curtain was Raised: A Study of Letters from Mainland Audiences of Liangyou Radio (1959-1983) written by Kim Lai Gene Ng was published in October.
It was jointly published by the Chinese Christian Literature Council of Taiwan, and the Research Center for Chinese Christianity, Chung Yuan Christian University.
With the name of Liangyou Radio (Good Friend Radio) in early 1949, the Far East Broadcasting Company began to transmit the gospel to mainland China via radio waves, becoming the longest-running gospel broadcasting organization to date. Beginning in the late 1950s, due to the influence of a series of political movements, especially the Cultural Revolution, the Chinese church faced a precarious situation in the midst of several historical changes. For decades, Liangyou Radio never stopped broadcasting to mainland China, but the outside world had not been able to know the current situation of the Chinese church and its believers who willingly or unwillingly kept silent. Following the implementation of the freedom of religion policy in 1979 after the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party opened the prelude to reform and opening up, the Chinese church finally reopened. Since then, the organization received an increasing number of letters from mainland China, which recorded the situation of the Chinese church and captured the voices of believers for decades. Based on the letters between 1959 and 1983, the situation of the great changes in the Chinese church was collected and written down in the book, providing another perspective of ordinary people beyond historical discourse.
The author Kim Lai Gene Ng has received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and Master of Divinity from Hong Kong Alliance Bible Seminary (ABS), a Master of Divinity from Divinity School of Chung Chi College, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and a Master of Arts from SOAS, University of London, UK. As a volunteer researcher at the Christian and Chinese Culture Research Center of ABS, Ng is also the author of The Minority in the Cracks—the Protestant M2M Cause in the Gansu-Qinghai Area (1878–1951) which was released in 2015.
- Translated by Abigail Wu
2022年10月份，吴剑丽著作《大门重开前后的中国教会-良友电台内地听众信件研究1959-1983》由台湾基督教文艺出版社和中原大学基督教与华人文化社会研究中心联合出版。
早在1949年初，远东广播公司以“良友电台”这个名称，开始通过无线电波向中国大陆传送福音节目，成为迄今为止面向中国大陆广播最久的福音广播组织。从上世纪五十年代后期开始，因着一连串政治运动的影响，尤其是经历文化大革命，中国教会在历史风云变幻中岌岌可危。在长达数十年的时间当中，外界无从得知中国教会及信徒的具体情况。这段期间内，良友电台从未停止向中国大陆广播，只是无法广播接收对象或主动或被动的集体保持沉默状态。直至1979年，第十一届三中全会揭开了改革开放的序幕，宗教政策亦有所调整，中国教会的大门终得以重新打开。至此，寄自中国各地到良友电台的听众信件数量开始陆续增加。本书以1959年至1983年间来自中国大陆的众多听众信件为基础，整理这几十年间中国教会巨变中的面貌，在历史大论述以外提供另一个民间角度的视角。这批珍贵的信件，记录了几十年间中国教会的处境及信徒的心声。
作者简介：
吴剑丽（Kim Lai Gene Ng），香港建道神学院哲学博士、道学硕士，香港中文大学崇基学院神学院神学硕士，英国伦敦大学亚非学院文学硕士。现为建道神学院基督教与中国文化研究中心义务研究员。著有《夹缝中的少数派：基督新教在甘青地区的穆宣事业（1878-1951）》（2015）、《荒原仄径：1949年前来华传教士的穆宣足迹》（2020）等。
新书速递|吴剑丽著作《大门重开前后的中国教会》出版
A new book named Before the Bamboo Curtain was Raised: A Study of Letters from Mainland Audiences of Liangyou Radio (1959-1983) written by Kim Lai Gene Ng was published in October.
It was jointly published by the Chinese Christian Literature Council of Taiwan, and the Research Center for Chinese Christianity, Chung Yuan Christian University.
With the name of Liangyou Radio (Good Friend Radio) in early 1949, the Far East Broadcasting Company began to transmit the gospel to mainland China via radio waves, becoming the longest-running gospel broadcasting organization to date. Beginning in the late 1950s, due to the influence of a series of political movements, especially the Cultural Revolution, the Chinese church faced a precarious situation in the midst of several historical changes. For decades, Liangyou Radio never stopped broadcasting to mainland China, but the outside world had not been able to know the current situation of the Chinese church and its believers who willingly or unwillingly kept silent. Following the implementation of the freedom of religion policy in 1979 after the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party opened the prelude to reform and opening up, the Chinese church finally reopened. Since then, the organization received an increasing number of letters from mainland China, which recorded the situation of the Chinese church and captured the voices of believers for decades. Based on the letters between 1959 and 1983, the situation of the great changes in the Chinese church was collected and written down in the book, providing another perspective of ordinary people beyond historical discourse.
The author Kim Lai Gene Ng has received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and Master of Divinity from Hong Kong Alliance Bible Seminary (ABS), a Master of Divinity from Divinity School of Chung Chi College, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and a Master of Arts from SOAS, University of London, UK. As a volunteer researcher at the Christian and Chinese Culture Research Center of ABS, Ng is also the author of The Minority in the Cracks—the Protestant M2M Cause in the Gansu-Qinghai Area (1878–1951) which was released in 2015.
- Translated by Abigail Wu
New Book on the Letters from Mainland Audiences of Liangyou Radio Published
