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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.2 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 […]
After Four Years Away
The Joys and Challenges of Re-entering China
Since I first arrived in western China in the summer of 2001 for a lingua-cultural exchange, life has been transforming here at a breakneck pace. During that first summer, I remember seeing just one building higher than 10 stories in the entire city: the China Construction Bank tower, rising 28 stories above downtown. Fourteen […]
The Dream of a Beijing Father and Educator
[…] have the finances to send their child overseas for school. I have visited many American middle and high schools. I have seen that in the American or western educational system, students have the opportunity to develop creativity and character, to develop themselves and their interests. They work hard but they also enjoy their school […]
Messy Choices in Messy Situations
[…] “I shall always thank God for all that Brother Yang’s Christ-like life and friendship meant to me during my time in China.”13 Having grown up as a Western Christian, I have frequently heard stories of Christians overcoming trials and temptations. In these stories, a believer is presented with suffering, persecution, or temptation. More often […]
Nothing New under the Sun
[…] the plate, taking ownership. These were the “glory days.” It was a season when anything and everything seemed possible in China. It was a time when the Western church even wondered: might the “Christian China” that multitudes of missionaries were working and longing for be attainable? Then the Japanese invaded. Then there was civil […]
My Dear Art
A Film Review
[…] art-collecting community’s perception of Chinese art A few memorable quotes from the film: I think there should be a difference between Easterners and Westerners. But now the Western world is dominant. I have seen many excellent young artists who paint really well but they follow Western methods. They even paint better than Westerners. But […]
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Campus Ministry in Mainland China
The Role of Foreigners, Past and Present
[…] the twentieth century. Many of them saw much fruit in their ministry on campus during those early stages, but after that early period of flourishing, an anti- Western backlash during the 1920s contributed to the weakening of these ministries. Like in other parts of the world, campus ministry expanded in mainland China during the […]
The Wrong Approach to Living in China
[…] took them from rags to riches and from chains to a freedom they had not experienced for 4000 years. In 1949, when Chairman Mao started kicking out Western Christians, China had one million Christians. Today after 60 years of Communist rule, China has perhaps 40 million Christians and the church is growing. I wish […]
China and Me
[…] like the situation in which I grew up in China, as I will be expounding in the coming blogs. Yet, at the same time, due to certain Western (Christian) assumptions, Western believers have proven themselves ill-prepared to respond well to the changing climate. By engaging this topic, we might not only equip ourselves to […]