As I read Philip Jenkins The New Faces of Christianity I am struck by how much of a compendium of African and Asian Christian theology and writing it is. Those who know me know that I have lamented the fact that the West is in sore need of broader Biblical perspective than it’s European and North American heritage offers (as great as this heritage is). The greater part of the body of Christ today seems to be made up of African and Asian Christians and hence one would expect it would be wise to see how God is revealing Himself to them (keep the hermeneutic spiral moving upward as it were).
Anyhow in reading Jenkins I have noted his reference of Chinese novelist and screenplay writer Bei Cun, considered a leading Chinese avate-guard writer. Jenkins writes of Bei Cun’s surprising conversion to Christianity in 1992 (I suppose surprising because these days "smart" liberals simply don’t convert to Christianity having evolved beyond it [SARCASM ALERT]) and of his subsequent work of fiction entitled The Marriage of Zhang Sheng which is somewhat biographical.
So I go to Amazon.ca to add Bei Cun to my Wishlist (God is going to have to dramatically extend my life if I am to get to everything on the list or else grant me access in Heaven) and what do I find? The great and all-powerful Amazon does not have any reference to Bei Cun at all. Nothing. This seemingly limitless bookstore of the e-ther apprently has some limits.
Well – if someone out there finds a source to purchase the works of Bei Cun (particularly the book referenced above) let me know.
Harnessing Chaos 
I am currently teaching Chinese at 2 Christian schools. I am doing my Master’s in Chinese at Valparaiso University. I am researching BeiCun and will present my report on March 3rd. I agree that there is a lack of translated Chinese Christian material. I am reading Yuzhou’s train in Stories of Contempory China. I hope to preview China’s Avant-Garde Fiction: An Anthology soon.
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Thanks for your comment – I will look for Yuzhou’s writing.
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