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Americans Drive on the Left and Other Truths I’ve Learned
[…] you can come to China and impress everyone by saying you caught a fish THIS BIG. “Americans Drive on the Left and Other Truths I’ve Learned” was originally published at small town laowai on May 8, 2015. Header image courtesy of Traffic (are you ready?) by Marianna, on Flickr Text images courtesy of small town laowai
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Hope for HIV/AIDS in China
[…] including China, are now home to some of the fastest growing AIDS epidemics in the world. UNAIDS projects that China may have ten million people infected by 2010 (or one percent of the population). Dr. Eberstadt of Harvard University’s Center for Population Studies predicts that five percent of China’s people will be infected in […]
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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.
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 […]
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 […]
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A Look Back to Look Forward
A Decade of ChinaSource
[…] an update on China’s growing urban church that is taking a variety of forms. In addition, we introduce you to the new ChinaSource website and recommend the 2010 Prayer Calendar. Throughout the years, ChinaSource has provided a variety of resources designed to aid and enhance your China service. As one of those resources, the […]
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 […]
How Many Christians Are There in China? It’s Complicated
If you are looking for a tidy answer to the question of how many Christians there are in China… then you will be disappointed. That’s because this is the first time Pew has (sort of) come out and admitted that they don’t really know and that it’s almost impossible to really know.
ZGBriefs | May 24, 2018
<p><strong>Baozi vs. Jiaozi</strong> (May 20, 2018, <em>Transparent Language</em>) Both are cheap, delicious little bundles of joy, so you really can’t go wrong either way.</p>
ZGBriefs | January 17, 2019
<p><strong>WeChat Knows You Really, Really Well</strong> (January 10, 2019, <em>Sixth Tone</em>)<br /> The Chinese social app’s 2018 report includes detailed profiles of five generations of users, impressing some and creeping out others.</p>