Andrea Lee is the Content Manager at ChinaSource, where she leads editorial planning and development across English- and Chinese-language content. She commissions and edits articles, develops thematic series, and works with guest editors on ChinaSource Journal. Her work brings her into ongoing conversation with writers, pastors, and scholars in China and across the global Chinese diaspora.
Andrea has been closely involved in ChinaSource’s expansion into bilingual publishing, helping create space for Chinese Christians to share their own stories and perspectives while inviting readers across languages, cultures, and Christian traditions to learn from one another. Her editorial approach emphasizes careful listening, thoughtful storytelling, and the relationships that can grow out of deeper understanding.
Originally from Taiwan, Andrea holds a BA in Chinese Language and Literature from Tunghai University and an MA in Comparative Literature from SOAS, University of London. Drawing on her background in Chinese Christian ministries and publishing, she writes about faith, culture, identity, and the changing landscape of Chinese Christianity.
She lives in Irvine, California, with her family.
For a moment, it was easy to understand the dream of finding something of home among one’s own, even far from home. Yet I wondered about the reverse: might someone still feel like a stranger among people who shared their language and cultural memories, longing for a belonging that familiarity alone could not provide?
What I brought home from Manila was a harder question: As we gradually gain more experience, more standing, and more power to shape the lives of others, how will we use it?
For ChinaSource readers, the story invites us to remember Chinese Christianity not as a simple one-directional story of Western missionaries going to China, but as a deeply interconnected history of receiving, translating, indigenizing, and sending.
Salvation, he came to see, is not the story of human beings climbing upward by their own strength. It is the story of one who is willing to descend for the lost.
When people who have long been studying, teaching, pastoring, and serving in different contexts finally sit in the same room, what becomes visible?
A new ChinaSource website is coming—shaped by listening, conversation, and a shared desire to explore Chinese Christianity together.
How are churches inside China discerning faithfulness amid shrinking space? And how should we learn to listen, respond, and accompany—without assuming a clarity we do not possess?
The call of cultural apologetics, I realized, begins with repentance: before we can witness to truth in the world, our own loves must be reordered by grace.
How can theology once again become the heartbeat of the church?
But precisely in its tension—between loss and arrival, between anxiety and faith—it may be stepping into a new role: not only as a window into China but as one of the most strategic platforms for gospel ministry among Chinese people worldwide.
God is not confined to church walls. He meets us in the world’s wounded places.
Some seek shelter in what feels more stable. I understand that. But we are called to covenantal faithfulness, rooted in grace, perseverance, and the cross.