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View From the Wall

When Can I Go Home?

Caring for China's Homeless Children

[…] nonexistent. Falling victim to scams or discrimination, being yelled at or chased away are all commonplace occurrences. They fend for themselves by begging, collecting trash, working as cheap labor or even committing petty crimes. In the shadow of skyscrapers, they barely survive. They are the “homeless children.” The term “homeless children” is controversial in […]

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Policy, Implementation, and Shifting Official Perceptions of the Church in China

The Chinese Communist Party’s basic stance toward religion has not changed since it was spelled out in Document number 19 in 1982. Commonly referred to as the “three designates” formula, this policy restricts religious activities to approved locations, requires that they be conducted by approved clergy and limits their scope to the geographic sphere […]

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March 5, 2015

[…] Cities on Weak Demand (August 17, 2014, Bloomberg) China's new-home prices fell in July in almost all cities that the government tracks as tight mortgage lending deterred buyers even as local governments eased property curbs. Prices fell in 64 of the 70 cities last month from June, the National Bureau of Statistics said today, […]

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ZGBriefs | May 11, 2017

<p></p> <p>Sing the national anthem, says China - but only at this speed (May 9, 2017, Sky News)<br /> China has already banned its national anthem from being belted out at weddings and funerals – but now, even more restrictions are on the way. A law is being prepared to set the tempo at […]

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January 30, 2014

[…] mainland Chinese crossed the border to the former British colony last year. That is up 16.7 percent from the previous year, and nearly ten times the 2001 number. Chinas Gilded Tuhao (January 24, 2014, World of Chinese) If you are still banging on about the xiaozi (, petty bourgeoisie), Chinas young middle class obsessed […]

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October 11, 2012

<p><strong>FEATURED ARTICLE</strong></p> <p><strong>The Chinese Church and the Global Body of Christ</strong> (October 5, 2012, <em>ChinaSource Quarterly</em>, via <em>Chinese Church Voices</em>)I believe these phenomena point to the dawning of a new era beginning in 2009. I believe that in the next 30 years, whether in breadth or in depth, the global body of Christ will connect […]

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Recent Chinese Migration Trends in Australia

[…] UK and Canada, has offered new immigration pathways for migrants from Hong Kong to settle permanently. As a result, there has been a marked rise in the number of Hong Kong migrants in Australia. This marked increase resulted in Hong Kong being listed as eighth in the countries providing the greatest number of permanent […]

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Bibles in China

A Question of Availability

[…] country. Although quite common, this was never legal and in the spring of 2018, the Chinese government ordered the practice to cease. The advent of the smart phone has also impacted the availability and distribution of the Bible in China. Consider the numbers. As of January 2018, the Chinese Internet Network Information Center reported […]

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ZGBriefs Newsletter for May 10, 2012

[…] a Chinese state-controlled company. Just days after high-level US-China economic talks in Beijing, the Federal Reserve approved an application from Industrial and Commercial Bank of China to buy a majority stake in the US subsidiary of Bank of East Asia. The transaction will make ICBC the first Chinese state-controlled bank to acquire retail bank […]

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China’s Pentecostal Churches

Changing Times, New Approaches

New religious regulations implemented in 2018 have caused churches to be shut down and foreign workers to leave. The author addresses developments in church networks and the emergence of churches with a Pentecostal identity.