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Reverse Culture Shock
[…] cultural rules for navigating social situations, shopping, using public transport, and so on. Relating to actual laws is included but many cultural rules are assumed and not discussed. People learn them as children or by watching and being influenced in society. Some of these Aussie cultural rules we remember; some we don’t. Some cultural […]
A Visit to Shaoshan and What I’ll Not Forget
[…] if we are to work with and in China. Works Cited Anderlini, Jamil. “The Return of Mao: A New Threat to China’s Politics.” Financial Times, September 29, 2016, accessed July 20, 2022, https://www.ft.com/content/63a5a9b2-85cd-11e6-8897-2359a58ac7a5. Chen, Jing. “The Chinese Church May Be More Complex than You Thought.” ChinaSource Blog. September 28, 2020. Accessed July 20, 2022. https://www.chinasource.org/resource-library/blog-entries/the-chinese-church-may-be-more-complex-than-you-thought/. […]
Americans Drive on the Left and Other Truths I’ve Learned
[…] you can come to China and impress everyone by saying you caught a fish THIS BIG. “Americans Drive on the Left and Other Truths I’ve Learned” was originally published at small town laowai on May 8, 2015. Header image courtesy of Traffic (are you ready?) by Marianna, on Flickr Text images courtesy of small town laowai
Nothing New under the Sun
[…] to establish full-fledged institutions. At the same time, the Chinese church also started growing and faster than they had ever done before. Whereas in 1900 Chinese Protestants numbered around 100,000, by the 1920s this increased to 500,000.9 In contrast to the previous generation of believers, these Christians were increasingly well-educated and wealthy. An urban […]
Official Protestant Groups Plan Next Five Years of Sinicization
What Does the TSPM/CCC 5-Year Plan Tell Us about the Direction of Official Protestantism?
[…] to make of last year’s announcement that the official Protestant group leadership, the national Three Self Patriotic Movement association together with the China Christian Council, gathered to discuss a five-year plan for 2023–2027? Do China’s official churches typically have five-year plans like any other Communist Party organization? What is new about this five-year plan? […]
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Hope for HIV/AIDS in China
[…] county and local levels. Not long ago, a man infected with HIV was admitted with AIDS to an infectious disease hospital in China. When other patients eventually discovered the cause of the man’s problems, most of them fled the hospital. There is so much fear, even among the professionals. The solution? It will be […]
A Positive Legacy in China
[…] work wisely and respectfully to leave a positive record and testimony. Works Cited Bays, Daniel. H. A New History of Christianity in China. West Sussex, United Kingdom: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. Beaver, R. Pierce. “The History of Mission Strategy.” In Perspectives on the World Christian Movement: A Reader, 4th ed., edited by Ralph D. Winter and Steven C. […]
The 2023 Regulations for Religious Activity Site Registration
What the Party Doesn’t Want You to Know
[…] with churches of different denominations. This is akin to a return to the closed, “cellular society”31 of Maoist China, in which all of society was atomized in discrete units with only the Party linking (and monitoring) different elements of society. Application for establishment of a religious activity site is remarkably burdensome in terms of […]
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How China’s Religious Affairs Bureaucracy Works
[…] the workings of the religious affairs bureaucracy first by following the story of an aspiring pastor, then by viewing them historically. The Chinese Protestant Three-Self Patriotic Movement Association, China Christian Council, Religious Affairs Bureau and United Front Work Department are all discussed along with how they interact, lines of authority and the role of <em>guanxi</em>.</p>
Historical Context Matters
As we stop to listen, as we hear the Chinese people’s stories, as we discover for ourselves Chinese history, as we put ourselves in China’s shoes, the Chinese context and therefore their practices and worldview become more understandable.