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Anticipating Urban China
[…] opportunity to reach many minority peoples who may be away from the spiritual bondage of their tradition-bound cultures for the first time. In addition, cities are strategic centers for disseminating the gospel to smaller towns, villages and rural areas. May we carefully study their characteristics and prayerfully develop strategies to reach them so that […]
Who Moved My Church?
[…] <em>Who Moved My Cheese? </em>New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1998. Bruce Drake, “Number of Christians Rises, But Their Share of World Population Stays Stable,” <em>Pew Research Center</em>, March 22, 2013. Accessed January 25, 2023. <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/03/22/number-of-christians-rises-but-their-share-of-world-population-stays-stable/">https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/03/22/number-of-christians-rises-but-their-share-of-world-population-stays-stable/</a>. “Status of Global Christianity, 2020, in the Context of 1900-2050,” <em>Center for the Study of Global Christianity</em>, […]
Supporting Article
China’s Place in the World
[…] emerge in 2008, with the Beijing Olympics and the global financial crisis—which China’s leaders interpreted as evidence of the weakness of the US-led economic system—China’s move toward center stage has accelerated since Xi’s rise to power in 2012 and the start of what China calls the “New Era.” Under Deng Xiaoping, the implicit message […]
Book Reviews
The Fourth Generation
[…] recent years been gradually introducing grassroots level democracy in China’s villages, including village elections, which has been monitored by Western observers under the auspices of the Carter Center, including Stanford’s Larry Diamond. Professor Diamond, an expert on democratic transitions, had this to say about his experiences in Jilin Province in March, 1998. What we […]
View From the Wall
China in 2020
Vol. 9, No. 3
[…] a gigantic challenge that the Party must face, but currently it is still far off. In terms of social control, although the Party is still at the center of political power in China, it cannot help but adjust many of its former methods due to the numerous social changes brought about by the development […]
The Facts about the Church in China
[…] Cultural Revolution when all religious worship (including that under the TSPM) was banned. They subsequently experienced revival and phenomenal growth. With the urbanization of China, the spiritual center of gravity appears to be shifting to a new stream, the unregistered urban church. This latter group, composed largely of first-generation believers, is not affiliated with […]
Editorials
Whose Agenda
[…] Caucasian church should learn to take some cues from the overseas Chinese church which can give tremendous input, avoiding the pitfalls of Lesson 3. The Great Commission Center has circulated widely a statement on BTJ. The following excerpt is a fitting summary and concluding remark (emphasis mine) to the thoughts I have presented here. […]
Lighting the Future: A Candle in the Dark, Part 2
More Stories from Chinese Christian Families
[…] had been granted visas by the Philippine embassy. Their joy and excitement were palpable. Unexpectedly, a few months after our last conversation, I received information from another contact who was on the same mission as Jeremiah’s father. He informed me that police had arrested Jeremiah’s father and several elders from their church. They were […]
Editorials
Chinese Education
From Hallowed to Hollow
For the third straight year in row, the number of college hopefuls taking the national university entrance exam, or gaokao, has dropped. Analysts trace the decline to a corresponding drop in the number of children born at the beginning of the last decade due to China’s one-child policy. However, the decrease also suggests two […]
Editorials
Perspectives on Confucianism
[…] as our articles will show. In general, Christians have tended to favor either the approach of Matteo Ricci, the Jesuit missionary who sought to make as much contact as possible with the reigning Confucian school of the sixteenth century, or the approach of his Franciscan and Dominican critics, who viewed ceremonies in honor of […]