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The 2023 Regulations for Religious Activity Site Registration
What the Party Doesn’t Want You to Know
[…] religions. Since Xi Jinping was selected to be China’s top leader in 2012, the People’s Republic of China has entered the End of Era, as a recent book by scholar Carl Minzner put it.1 Students of Chinese politics and society have characterized the period from the late 1970s or early 1980s until today as […]
Ethical Foundations for China Service
[…] would guide foreign organizations serving in China and would be used to help the foreign Christian community make the most of their service in China. Although a number of years have passed, I believe that these guidelines for China service are as applicable today as they were when first developed. The current edition of […]
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?
[…] be sure, since the late 1990s, under the late Bishop Ding Guangxun, the official churches began actively seeking to “reconstruct theology.” But as I discuss in my book, that campaign faced stiff resistance as young seminarians at the national seminary publicly opposed the campaign and were thrown out of the seminary as a consequence. […]
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 […]
Religious Policy Development in the PRC since 1949–An Overview
In today's blog, Dr. Timothy Conkling discusses the influence of PRC religious policy on the church in China.
Sanjiang Church: The Basics of Christianity in China
[…] Midland TX, directed and founded by China native Bob Fu, has become the "go to" source for information on persecution in China. Using data from China Aid's 2013 Annual Report on Chinese Government Persecution of Christians and Churches in Mainland China, only .03 percent of all Christians suffered persecution, which means in real terms […]
Lead Article
Staying in China
The Issues
He was given twenty-four hours to leave the country. After a week of uncertainty, following an investigation by the police, it was finally made clear he was being expelled for "religious activities incompatible with his status as a foreign expert." Meanwhile, in another city, another foreigner is hailed as a true friend of China and given, what was at the time, the rare honor of permanent residence. These experiences of two equally committed Christian professionals, both of whom felt called to serve in China, are drastically different. There are several issues here, but clearly "retention" or longevity of in-country service is one of them.
Supporting Article
How China’s Religious Affairs Bureaucracy Works
[…] the U.S., Chinese party-state governance operates much more on informal norms of trust and personal connections (guanxi in Chinese). This means that policies that are “on the books” may be bent, ignored or violated altogether by Protestant association leaders or pastors who have developed a relationship of trust with their RAB counterparts. This is […]
The End of Cheap China
<p>A new book is on its way and this will be of interest especially to those involved in business one way or another. It's supposed to be out in December so if you get this as a Christmas present and read this book, please do post a review.</p>