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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
I have been involved actively in China ministry since 1996. I often tell people that those years have been some of the most exciting times for China, her government and her church. Just as I was actively getting involved, the Chinese government was beginning to wrestle with what place people of faith could have […]
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
[…] or State Association for Religious Affairs (SARA) as the name was changed to in 1998, defines and regulates the activities of all "normal" religious bodies in China. 1 Under the SARA, the China Christian Council (CCC) functions as a regulatory organization over the Three Self Patriotic Movement (TSPM), whereas the TSPM structures and regulates […]
Sanjiang Church: The Basics of Christianity in China
<p>As the news of the <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/10745248/Christians-form-human-shield-around-church-in-Chinas-Jerusalem-after-demolition-threat.html" rel="nofollow">battle for Sanjiang Church in Wenzhou</a> began to break over the last week and I read the accounts, I was reminded again why fully understanding Christianity in China from the West is so hard.</p>
Lead Article
Staying in China
The Issues
[…] fails to retain their loyalty and trust. Kath Donovan and Ruth Myors write about the characteristics of workers from different generations. The Booster Generation (those born before 1946) “were high in institutional loyalty. When the leaders said, ‘jump,’ they asked ‘How high?'” The Baby Boomer Generation (those born between 1946 and 1964) on the […]
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>