ZGBriefs | December 13, 2018

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ZGBriefs | December 13, 2018

Chinese Police Detain Prominent Pastor and Over 100 Protestants (December 10, 2018, The New York Times) The Chinese police have detained one of the country’s most prominent Protestant pastors.

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ZGBriefs | December 6, 2018

Weibo’s Online Slang: 10 Chinese ‘Tribes’ & ‘Clans’ to Know (December 1, 2018, What’s on Weibo) A major part of this online slang culture is the categorization of people into ‘tribes’ or ‘clans’ (族); classifying those (urban) young Chinese people who share certain traits. 

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ZGBriefs | November 29, 2018

How ‘Survivors’ Are Navigating the New Environment (November 27, 2018, The China NGO Project) A discussion on the state of play nearly two years after the Foreign NGO Law went into effect.

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ZGBriefs | November 15, 2018

Forty Years on, Is China Still Reforming? (November 9, 2018, China File) What does this common but vague expression actually mean to Xi? And is Beijing actually reforming and opening up, or stagnating and closing down?

A Meeting of Minds

20 Years of Publishing ChinaSource

Looking back at 20 years of the ChinaSource Quarterly.

Worship in the Mountains of Yunnan

A Video

Singing hymns and the testimony of a church leader. 

“The Mind of a Missionary”

A Book Review

A fast-moving and fascinating survey of missionary stories that doesn’t just tell what happened but also why it happened.

2 New Christian Books

 . . . available now in China.

Big Name Leaders and Nameless Heroes

Two urgent needs of the indigenous missions movement from China.

The Church in China Prays

A look at some of the creative ways Christians are praying in China. 

The Slippery Slope of English Teaching

Teaching English in China—does it isolate you or open doors into the community and culture? 

Old Rhetoric, New Normal

What's really new in the "new normal" of today's China?

Speeding Up? Or Slowing Down?

A Study on the Current Church Growth Situation in China

Is the church in China growing as fast as we thought?

Reflections on the Writings of Louis Cha

Wuxia novelist Louis Cha died at the end of October. One of his readers remembers the influence his writings.

A Reader Responds to "The Chinese Bible"

A reader with years of experience in rural Bible distribution responds to "The Chinese Bible"

Advantages and Challenges for Indigenous Researchers (2)

The Challenges

Four challenges that indigenous researchers face in researching the church in China.

In Everything Give Thanks

The cultural pitfalls of saying thank you.

Giving Thanks in China

As Americans observe Thanksgiving this week, Christians in northeast China already took the opportunity last month to give thanks.

Shandong: The Revival Province

A Book Review

Beware of reading Paul Hattaway’s Shandong: The Revival Province . . . it will rock your rational, modern, stoic, predictable, boring Christian faith and turn it upside down.

Finding the “Pastoral Middle” in the Translations Debate

A reader shares his thoughts on the Chinese Union Version of the Bible.