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In college, my father took me back to the People's Republic of China for the first time. My heritage is in Taiwan, but my dad took me on this trip to China. And it just left such a deep impression on me that I decided that I want to go back. And so after I graduated college, I spent some time in China teaching. During that time, I worshiped with unregistered churches, sometimes known as house churches or the underground church, as well as with registered churches, the ones that are government-approved. Just experiencing worship and life with these churches brought up so many questions about what faith and religious life mean in a very different social political cultural context and those questions lingered when I returned to the United States. 

How do young adult Chinese Christians navigate their faith in contemporary China?