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Christianity Brings Western Medicine to Guangdong (Part 2)
<p><em>The first part of the article on the </em>Fuyinmen (Gospel Door)<em> website focused on western missionary work in the medical field in Guangdong. The second part of the article focuses on education and a missionary's encounter with Hong Xiuquan, who would later lead the Taiping Rebellion.</em></p>
Christianity Brings Western Medicine to Guangdong (Part 1)
[…] missionaries subjective intentions were, the contributions of Christianity to the development of education, medicine, and philanthropy in Guangdong can't be ignored." According to Ming Liang, the first western hospital, the first English-Chinese dictionary, and the recent famous institute of higher learning, Lingnan University – all are closely connected with Christianity. According to recent statistics, […]
The 2023 Regulations for Religious Activity Site Registration
What the Party Doesn’t Want You to Know
[…] lives, and, for churches, permitting house churches to develop alongside a re-emerging official church sector. This meant that the ideological agenda of the CCP had turned to promoting capitalism and economic growth as the government normalized its regulation of society. Under Xi, however, these steps toward liberalization have ended and even reversed. Not only […]
Golden Goose: The Story of a Peasant Family in Western China
A Book Review and Interview
Golden Goose: The Story of a Peasant Family in Western China by Xu Liu and David Burnett. Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, 186 pages, ISBN 978-981-13-3773-4, ISBN 978-981-13-3774-1. Available in hardback and ebook versions at Palgrave and World Cat Golden Goose: The Story of a Peasant Family in Western China is the product of […]
Defying Western Expectations
[…] Early Rain Reformed Church appeared to many as the epitome of the Reformed movement in China. Featured in Ian Johnson’s The Souls of China and in countless Western journalistic accounts of China’s “underground” church, Early Rain became a kind of poster child for Chinese Christianity—a picture of what was possible in the relative openness […]
Western and Chinese Church History
[…] Chinese House Church Alliance. Many years ago the government did not manage to bring house churches into the orbit of the Three Self Church, and now by promoting the formation of a House Church association it is reattempting what it failed to do back in the 1950s. Under a different name it is trying […]
Western vs. Chinese Theology
<p>In the “Teaching across Cultures” class I took last month with Dr. Craig Ott, he had us read <em>The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently . . . and Why</em> by Richard Nisbett. The crux of the book’s argument is that Westerners and Asians think differently because of their different ancient roots. </p>
An Official Code of Conduct for China’s Pastors
[…] more vigilant in recognizing and preventing the capability of foreign infiltration as well as to stand on guard against cults, heresies, and extremism. In addition, the document promotes mutual respect and harmony between different religions as well as inter-religious dialogue and cultural exchanges. It also demands that staff conform to churches' rules and regulations […]
China’s Church through Western Eyes
[…] the Middle East. The narrative paints the compelling picture of an army of up to one million Chinese missionaries moving out across the globe, while calling on Western Christians to support this movement financially. A Christian China This final narrative looks to the day when the Chinese church will have reached critical mass and […]
A Positive Legacy in China
[…] foreigners. Once more the government banned the religion when ridding China of unwanted foreign influences.8 Christianity was distrusted as a foreign religion. Considering certain positions and activities Western believers participated in during the subsequent centuries, it is not surprising that the Chinese government went on to hold Christianity in suspicion and not merely because […]