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This is a story of the Orthodox Church in China that started in the year 1685, when Chinese imperial troops captured Fort Albazin, a Russian Far East outpost on the Amur River. The story of the captured Russian warriors marks the beginning of the Orthodox Spiritual Mission in China and continues with a modern history of the Chinese Orthodox Church describing feats of faith made by the Chinese martyrs and the forefathers of modern believers.

Chen Pingyuan is one of the leading scholars of modern Chinese literature, known particularly for his work on wuxia, a popular and influential genre of historical martial arts fiction still celebrated around the world today. This work, presented here in English translation for the first time, is considered to be the seminal work on the evolution, aesthetics and politics of the modern Chinese wuxia novel in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, tracing the resurgence of interest in classical chivalric tales in China.