Professor Robert Barnett

SOAS students have once again earned top prizes at the annual Chinese Bridge Competition, continuing a streak of success for SOAS participants.

China have had one of the strictest COVID policies since the pandemic began, bringing economic hardship to most of the population and leading to a number protests. The rules have now been relaxed, does this mean the government have lost their control of protests?

This open-to-all lecture will focus on the impact which the specific social, political and ethnic conditions of Taiwan had on the first encounters with Christianity, the subsequent missionary implantation of both Catholic and Protestant societies and, eventually, on the development of indigenous churches.