We held some here for you.

See also, Foreign Affairs, MAR/APR 2017 at 83: “China’s Great Awakening: How the People’s Republic Got Religion” by Ian Johnson.

Highlights of Foreign Affairs essay:

China uses “amalgam” feature and approach to religion in everyday practices, life [@ 86].

Destroying superstition [@ 87].

Communist Mao Zedong bans religion in the late 1950’s in China. [John Lennon brought it Stateside with Yoko Ono, of Japanese decent @ 88]

Document 19: [Reforms of 1982 still in place but change inevitable].

Five official religions: Buddhism, Taoism, Islam, Catholic, Protestant [religious organizations led and financed domestically granted more leeway; informal Protestant churches show most gains in temple, church, mosque numbers recently [at 88-92; Compare Judaism, synagogues].

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2017/03/05/the-souls-of-china-the-return-of-religion-after-mao-ianjohnson-2017

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2017/03/11/the-souls-of-china-the-return-of-religion-after-mao-ianjohnson-2017