For almost 25 years Chinese Christians have been virtually cut off from the Church in the rest of the world.
Kwang-Hsun Ting , a native of Shanghai and an Anglican priest, returned to China from the west shortly after the Communist revolution in 1949. He was later consecrated Bishop of Chekiang, and remained in Nanking as Principal of the Theological College throughout the Cultural Revolution. He is now Vice-President of Nanking University, and a member of the National People's Congress.
In this first conversation to be broadcast in Britain. Bishop Ting talks to John Gardner, of the University of Manchester. about the experience of Chinese Christians during these years.
Producer ROGER HUTCHINGS BBC Manchester