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ZGBriefs | November 8, 2018

<p><strong>China's middle class: We're being picked like leeks by the government</strong>  (November 4, 2018, <em>CNN</em>) Wang is one of millions of Chinese middle-class men and women who grew up in a roaring economy… but the past year has been especially tough.</p>

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ZGBriefs The Weeks Top Picks, June 26 Issue

[…] type, 3.cn. Check out 4399.com to see one of China’s first and largest online gaming websites. Buy and sell used cars at 92.com. Want to purchase train tickets? It’s as easy as 12306.cn. Why the preference for digits over letters? It mostly has to do with ease of memorization. To a native English-speaker, remembering […]

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Invisible China

A Book Review

Invisible China by Scott Rozelle and Natalie Hell. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 248 pages. ISBN-10: 022673952X, ISBN-13: 978-0226739526. Available from Amazon and University of Chicago Press. While the dominant narrative of China in recent decades has been of unstoppable growth and ever-climbing incomes, the Invisible China… remains vast and intransigent and almost completely […]

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ZGBriefs | April 27, 2023

[…] the first category to try to identify what a good listener is like and how we can become one. Books Chinese Migrants in the Stew Pot of Dubai: A Book Review of Chinese in Dubai (April 24, 2023, ChinaSource Blog) The research was designed to provide a sociological study of the Chinese community in Dubai: how […]

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December 20, 2012

<p>China to Speed Up Hukou System Reform (December 18, 2012, China Digital Times)</p> <p>The National Development and Reform Commission announced Tuesday that the government will speed up reform of Chinas household registration or hukou system, following up on pledges by incoming leaders to emphasize urbanization and improve opportunities for rural citizens.</p>

View From the Wall

A Field Study of “The Church of Almighty God” Cult

[…] groups. In the early l990s, China’s economic transformation resulted in a great migration into the cities resulting in the spread of Christianity to city dwellers. The increasing number of Christians in urban areas became the major source of growth for the total number of Christians. About the same time, Eastern Lightning, in rural Henan, […]

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ZGBriefs | August 8, 2024

[…] are hundreds of wet markets all over Shanghai, and they have proved remarkably resilient. Though they’re hardly relaxing places to shop, they offer customers access to fresh, cheap produce within a few minutes’ walk of their homes. But the city is now giving the markets a much-needed upgrade, aiming not only to improve hygiene […]

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The Christian World They Made Together: 1850–1911

History of Chinese Christianity in North America (1)

[…] development that created a tremendous demand for labor. The abolition of slavery in the British territories (1807) and the United States (1861) only intensified the need for cheap labor globally. These historical developments explain, in part, the growth of the Chinese diaspora and Chinese immigration to the United States and Canada. A small but […]

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ZGBriefs | June 7, 2018

<p>Tiananmen Square, A 'Watershed' For Chinese Conversions to Christianity (June 4, 2018, WBUR) It marked the beginning of "a quiet spiritual revolution" among many Chinese, who equated Christianity with modernity.</p>

Chinese Christian Voices

As Church Growth Slows

[…] Churches sprang up all over the nation like bamboo shoots after spring showers. Church development became even more rapid after our country joined the WTO, and the number of Christians soared to the tens of millions.    Churches in my area also experienced these three sweet periods of highspeed development. Especially in the third period, the number of Christians […]