John Song: Modern Chinese Christianity and the Making of a New Man, by Daryl R. Ireland

Modern Chinese Christianity and the Making of a New Man to be a "very important book" and Song a "very important person" (book cover endorsement).Ireland's revisionist text should be valuable reading for Pentecostal scholars.Pentecostals have had something in common with Song Shangjie's Chinese Christian world: revival.Revival, which creates new men and women, has been a building block of Christianity in China and Southeast Asia.Although Song Shangjie had a short life, his influence as the "archetype and exemplar" of Chinese revivalism must not be forgotten or relegated to a devotional vignette (207).Song's continuing influence on modern Christianity needed academic attention, and Daryl Ireland, whose