Mary Li Ma is a research scholar, mission consultant, social scientist, and justice advocate. Mary has been working to bring attention to the problem of abuse within Chinese churches. She has a PhD in sociology from Cornell University and is author of Surviving the State, Remaking the Church, and The Chinese Exodus. Mary works extensively on issues of social justice and Christian mission in China, and writes for both public and Christian media in the Chinese-speaking world. She is currently completing a book about the experiences of Christian women in urban China, and in a few months, Mary will be launching a Safe Chinese Church website (in Chinese language), the first in Chinese-speaking Christian community.
