Appendix: Ma and Li's study of church openness in Shanghai and Chengdu

Shanghai Churches

For theological backgrounds in Shanghai: L = Little Flock (Nee's Local Church), E = Evangelical, F = Fundamentalist, C = Charismatic.

For columns: O = Open (open to the public), C = Closed (church groups whose practice deny access to the general public), SC = Semi-closed (tending towards the closed end), SO = Semi-open (tends towards the open end).

"Sunday Closure" refers to church groups that set up a probationary period for new believers and those who transfer from other churches before they are qualified to participate in Sunday services.

Chengdu Churches (With Reformed churches highlighted)

For theological backgrounds in Chengdu: R = Reformed, E = Evangelical, F = Fundamentalist, C = Charismatic, P = Pentecostal.

These tables are taken from Li Ma and Jin Li, Surviving the State, Remaking the Church: A Sociological Portrait of Christians in Mainland China (Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2018), Kindle edition, 181–82. Church names are kept discreet.