Note the Exits: Lessons in Democracy from Hong Kong Christians

Lida V. Nedilsky is author of Converts to Civil Society: Christianity and Political Culture in Contemporary Hong Kong, released this summer by Baylor University Press (2014), and coeditor with colleagues Joseph Tse-Hei Lee and Siu-Keung Cheung of Marginalization in China: Recasting Minority Politics (Palgrave MacMillan 2009) and China’s Rise to Power: Conceptions of State Governance (Palgrave MacMillan 2012). As a sociologist and ethnologist at North Park University, Chicago, she documents the everyday work of civil society. Learning about Hong Kong Christians these past seventeen years has taught her that entries as well as exits are necessary features of voluntary association and the development of a critical voice.