When Xi Lian, professor of world Christianity at Duke Divinity School and a renowned scholar of China’s modern encounter with Christianity, first heard the story of Chinese dissident Lin Zhao, he was enthralled. “She was the lone dissident in the 1960s who held out in this seemingly hopeless resistance against Mao’s Communism, at a time when intellectuals—and everybody, actually—had been silenced,” he said.

Learn how the incredible story of Lin Zhao, a martyr in Mao's China, became an authoritative biography and a touching musical elegy at Duke Divinity School.