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The Mountains Are Shorter, Part 1
[…] as automobiles or housing. Given these incentives, they have worked hard to maintain their privileged positions. Now, as one commentator put it, “Times are a-changing. In this new era of ‘centralism, Xi style,’ provinces need to do the center’s bidding of ensuring economic security. In other words, Beijing wants to reset the 不听话 (‘intransigent’) […]
Mao’s Black Box: Resilience and Religious Revival in Wenzhou
A Book Review
Xiaoxuan Wang, Maoism and Grassroots Religion: The Communist Revolution and the Reinvention of Religious Life in China. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Available on Amazon. After touring China in the early 1980s, Christian radio personality Carl Lawrence wrote about the Christians he met during his travels. His book, titled The Church in China: How It Survives […]
Beyond the Standard Narrative
[…] authorities are actively hunting for the remaining unregistered congregations that continue to operate, and those reaching out to share their faith risk fines, detainment, or other punishments. New laws have banned religion from all but authorized Christian websites and licensed clergy.4 For those following the tightened restrictions on China’s Christians, these observations may not […]
Changing Dynamics of Church Growth in China
[…] discussion and an invitation for further reflection on the dynamics of church growth in China today. Migration Evidence suggests that urban congregations continue to grow in size. New churches are being planted. While the picture may look encouraging, this growth is due in part to Christians migrating from the countryside, where many churches are […]
Beyond the Crosses
Wealth, Stewardship and the Wenzhou Church
[…] of one observer, because of the favorable social and political conditions, Competition to build churches had almost become the order of the day. As soon as a new church was built, it was torn down and rebuilt again! Before the new building was even filled with people, they began to build an even bigger […]
The Urban Paradox: Together, Alone
[…] face with the human reality underlying the most massive migration in the history of the world. On a Saturday morning on the edge of town where another new suburb is taking shape, bleary eyed peasants peeked out from their tarpaulin-covered home under a railway bridge. Across the street cars maneuvered into the parking lot […]
Going Glocal in the Age of COVID-19
[…] learn about mission strategies in China they could have never envisioned, much less dreamed possible in China’s repressive political environment. Asian participants listened with empathy as their new friends in America related the loss and disorientation they were experiencing with the sudden onslaught of COVID-19. All sensed the Lord’s presence as they humbled themselves […]
Editorials
Changing Culture
<p>Editor's Note: This editorial originally appeared in "Chinese Culture: Continuity or Discontinuity?" (<em>ChinaSource</em>, 2010 Spring).</p>
ChinaSource Perspective
More Blessed to Receive
[…] they received much more than they contributed. As one long-time China worker put it, “They may have left China, but China has not left them.” They gained new friendships. They left with cherished memories and with new perspectives on themselves and what it means to be a follower of Christ in a land not […]
One Belt, One Road, One Mission?
[…] Christ’s redemptive purpose. “One Belt, One Road” could potentially be another one of those means. But drawing a straight line between OBOR and the success of a new mission movement from China may be overly optimistic, to say the least. In his South China Morning Post column, business writer Tom Holland questioned whether OBOR […]