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Peoples of China

Understanding and Engaging with the Post-Eighties Generation

[…] with their parents, post-eighties children were often accompanied by their grandparents who would relocate in order to continue living with them until they finished high school. A number of factors combined to produce this situation. To begin with, it was a very pragmatic arrangement. As retirees, grandparents usually had sufficient time to provide care […]

Book Reviews

Glorification of Educational Success

[…] American universities. The report noted that China sent 26,275 undergraduates to the United States in 2009 compared with 8,034 undergraduates just five years prior. Today, an increasing number of Chinese parents in urban areas are enrolling their child in younger grades in programs called 2+2 which means they attend grades nine and ten in […]

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Reading Tea Leaves from the 2021 National Religious Work Conference

What can we learn from the recent conference on religious work? A comparison with the 2018 conference helps tease out key points.

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The Three-Self Patriotic Movement

Divergent Perspectives and Grassroots Realities

[…] both official churches and house churches. Not only is the Xi government attempting to forcibly implement religious policy by eradicating house churches, it is also constricting the number of public worship spaces in Three-Self churches, and even announcing efforts to transform the meaning and practices of traditional Protestant worship through the “Sinicization” campaign. The […]

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Private Education

[…] tool in the classroom. By contrast, the Guangya School amazed me with its brightly colored classrooms, a library building built like a country lodge and a beautiful lake in the middle of the school campus. Inside the classrooms, students and faculty enjoyed access to the latest computer technology. The students had come from all […]

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The Power of Partnership in Christian Professional Service

[…] other leaders immediately called the new Christian community together. Options were outlined, a way forward proposed and a collective decision made. The problem was resolved, and the number of new believers continued to increase rapidly. GOOD COMMUNICATIONS Maintaining good communications is also very critical to partnership. It is important that all bodies that have […]

Peoples of China

China’s Migrant Children

[…] Global Times, Feb 25, 2010. http://china.globaltimes.cn/society/2010-02/507860.html 3If “left behind” children of migrant workers, who remain in the villages without parental care, are included in these statistics, the number rises to 30 million total migrant children in China, comprising 20% of the compulsory school-aged student population. “Strong Performers and Successful Reformers in Education: Lessons from […]

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Chinese Christians in the New Era—Hope and Overcoming

[…] the Japanese invasion in the 1930s to protect their congregations and lost their lives as a result.  Swells is right, of course, that a focus on the numbers of converts was always misplaced; the focus should always be on the faithfulness and integrity of those who do convert, not on whether they are numerous […]

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Priceless Words

[…] Labs in Murray Hill, NJ. In one laboratory, scientists were measuring the excitability of molecules when hit by a laser beam. In another, researchers were testing the electrical conductivity of various materials at near-absolute zero (Kelvin) temperatures. While I had done a reasonably good interpreting job to that point, I was completely lost at […]

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Reverse Culture Shock

[…] activities. We became used to it being a time when the whole country stops for a holiday. But now, because we are white and in Australia, our phones are not filled with celebratory messages and photos nor are we welcomed into the celebration. Here it’s a celebration for the Asians in the community, or […]