Word: foochow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Resistance to the regime is scarcely confined to Peking. The post of commander of the Foochow military region based in Fukien province has remained conspicuously vacant since General P'i Ting-chun died in July 1976. Ten months later one of P'i's subordinates, General Ch'eng Ch'ao-chang, was also officially reported to have suffered "a martyr's death" at his post. Some Sinologists believe the generals were victims of rebellions in Fukien that forced Hua to dispatch 12,000 troops to the region. Last week a radio broadcast from Fukien reported that followers of the Gang...
...Foochow last February, five Chinese Christians were arrested and paraded in dunce hats through the city streets. The incident was related to TIME Correspondent David Aikman in Hong Kong by two overseas Chinese missionaries who had been visiting the coastal province of Fukien. While such a tale of public humiliation is hardly extraordinary, the reason for it was. The missionaries reported that an underground Chinese Christian community numbering more than 1,200 has grown up in Foochow over the past five years. If the story of the Foochow revival is indeed basically true, it signals that the Christian faith...
Besides the missionaries who visited Foochow, other travelers speak of finding groups of underground Christians in many villages and cities. In Shanghai, according to one account, the prayer groups are nurtured by "Bible women" -lay ministers who took over pastoral leadership after the male leaders were arrested. How many Christians are there in China now? Generous estimates range from 1 million to 2 million...