God Is Red: The Secret Story of How Christianity Survived and Flourished in Communist China

By Liao Yiwu

Book Overview

“Liao'scoverage of Christians allows truth to shine in the darkness. That's the beautyof his writings.” —Liu Xiaobo, winner of the 2010Nobel Peace Prize

Chinesedissident author Liao Yiwu—the once lauded, laterimprisoned, and now celebrated author of The Corpse Walker—profiles theextraordinary lives of dozens of Chinese Christians, providing a rare glimpseinto the burgeoning underground world of belief that is taking hold within theofficially atheistic state of Communist China. A luminous writer, and not aChristian himself, Yiwu offers a uniquely objectiveand insightful perspective on the position Christians occupy in mainland China,in a book that readers of Philip Jenkins’ The Lost History of Christianityas well as Peter Hessler’s Country Driving willnot want to miss.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 006207847X
• ISBN13: 9780062078476
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: HarperOne
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.6" x 5.3"