Introduction: My Personal Journey

In this volume, the author, Peter Tze Ming Ng, shall collect some papers he has written in the past fifteen years with the aim of illustrating the development of his thoughts during this period, especially regarding the concept of 'Chinese indigenous Christianity' and the re-discovery of 'local Christianities' and 'the Chinese side of the story'. The author wants to elaborate a new understanding of Chinese Christianity from a global-local perspective, and stimulate more follow-up investigation which will result in a more comprehensive understanding of the development of Chinese Christianity in the past two centuries. The author reviews the historical contexts in which these changes of his thought took place. These papers are put together in one single volume so that scholars can see in a more comprehensive way how the concept of globalization has evolved and how these thoughts have been developed in their academic, social and cultural contexts.Keywords:China; Chinese Christianity; education; globalization; history; personal life; Peter Tze Ming Ng; scholars