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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.
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
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 […]
The 2023 Regulations for Religious Activity Site Registration
What the Party Doesn’t Want You to Know
[…] from the last question and work backward, from the larger context to the issue of 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 […]
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 […]
Seeing Trees for the First Time
[…] a doctor so she and the children joined us for the drive back. Several newcomers piled into the truck as well, along with a small tree. Our numbers swelled to fourteen, a cramped but perfect ending to one of those experiences that cause me to look upward and shake my head with awed disbelief. […]
An Unwelcomed Journey Out of China
[…] our new location, though deepening, remained relatively shallow. Our employing school opted to not do online classes. Though the school paid me for the remainder of the 2019-2020 contract, after July 2020 I no longer received a salary, and the school declined to commit to anything for the 2020-2021 school year. This severed us […]
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Chinese Culture and the Ethos of Suffering in the Chinese Church
[…] His wife had five children and he was not home for the birth of any one of them. Looking back on the influence of his ministry, conservative numbers would place 100,000 Chinese as having been converted as a result of his labors.5 Watchman Nee In the concluding paragraph of The Spiritual Man, Volume One, […]
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 […]
ZGBriefs | August 27, 2020
[…] can be harnessed by the Chinese military. Li Keqiang In The Muck (August 24, 2020, China Media Project) Over the past week, as floods continued to devastate communities across southwestern China, the country’s top leaders descended from the capital to tour flood-stricken areas, visits meant to signal their resolve in dealing with the crisis. With Hacks […]