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How China’s Religious Affairs Bureaucracy Works

The author helps us to understand the workings of the religious affairs bureaucracy first by following the story of an aspiring pastor, then by viewing them historically. The Chinese Protestant Three-Self Patriotic Movement Association, China Christian Council, Religious Affairs Bureau and United Front Work Department are all discussed along with how they interact, lines of authority and the role of guanxi.

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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?

[…] plans like any other Communist Party organization? What is new about this five-year plan? In this analysis, I compared the 2023–2027 plan1 with the previous plan2 for 2018–2022 to see what’s new and what is the same. The most important conclusion is that the TSPM/CCC now lays far greater emphasis on political loyalty to […]

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Chinese Christians in the New Era—Hope and Overcoming

[…] I’m brought back to stories I have read about foreign Christians who stayed in China during 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 […]

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ZGBriefs | June 15, 2023

Marriages in China drop to record low despite government push (June 13, 2023, The Guardian) The number of marriages in China last year dropped to 6.83 million, the lowest since records began in 1986. Data released by the Ministry of Civil Affairs showed the number of couples tying the knot in 2022 fell by […]

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ZGBriefs | August 10, 2017

<p></p> <p>'China has conquered Kenya': Inside Beijing's new strategy to win African hearts and minds (August 7, 2017, The Los Angeles Times)<br /> As a digital infrastructure provider, StarTimes is helping African states transition from analog television — a technology akin to FM radio, rife with snow, static and dropped signals — to digital, which […]

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ZGBriefs | July 26, 2018

<p>Airlines comply with demand from China that Taiwan not be referred to as a sovereign nation  (July 25, 2018, The Los Angeles Times)<br /> U.S. airlines have begun to comply with a Chinese demand that Taiwan be referred to as a part of China. </p>

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ZGBriefs The Weeks Top Picks, August 8 Issue

<p>The stories that captured our attention this week provide glimpses into religion in China, an arrest, and the Chinese student community in Los Angeles.</p>

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January 31, 2013

<p>China's ethnic Manchus rediscovering their roots (January 30, 2013, The Los Angeles Times)</p> <p>Descended from a horse-riding nomadic people of northeastern China, the Manchus were the last imperial rulers of the country, establishing the Qing Dynasty, which lasted from 1644 until 1912. After the abdication of the last emperor, Pu Yi, his clan changed its […]

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ZGBriefs | April 21, 2022

The quest to save Cantonese in a world dominated by Mandarin (April 17, 2022, The Los Angeles Times) Cantonese is the language of San Francisco Chinatown’s dim sum restaurants and herbal shops, of Northern California towns such as Marysville, where Chinese gold miners settled in the 1850s. But in the U.S. too, Mandarin is […]

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Telecommunications and the Internet in China

<p>Among developing countries, China is number one in the pace at which telecommunication services and the Internet are being developed. These developments will contribute enormously to China’s modernization and integration into the global economy and may have significant domestic social and political impact. </p>