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Reading Tea Leaves from the 2021 National Religious Work Conference
[…] loving their religion”). It encompasses a number of activities that are formal, such as registration of a new congregation, and informal, such as calling pastors on the phone to check on them. The overall goal is to “actively guide religions to adapt to socialist society,” which means to follow the line set by the […]
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China’s Migrant Children
[…] permanent urban residency have fueled the burgeoning urban population of school-aged rural youth who are born in the city or migrate there at a young age. Recent numbers from the China Children and Teenagers’ Fund estimate there are 20 million rural migrant children 14 years old or under in China, comprising 13% of the […]
Reverse Culture Shock
[…] activities. We became used to it being a time when the whole country stops for a holiday. But now, because we are white and in Australia, our phones are not filled with celebratory messages and photos nor are we welcomed into the celebration. Here it’s a celebration for the Asians in the community, or […]
Skills No Longer Needed
[…] that they do not belong in this multicultural society. When in a park, being aware at every moment of who is near my children and whether their phone is pointing at them. At the same time, monitoring the pulse of my children’s stress levels. Do they notice the attention on them and, today, do […]
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Hope for HIV/AIDS in China
[…] Self Church members to minister to those affected by AIDS in their villages. He works in central China where unscrupulous and unsanitary blood collection practices in the 1990s left thousands infected with the virus; whole villages now are informally called “AIDS villages.” “In the beginning people wouldn’t even buy cabbages from these AIDS villages,” […]
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How China’s Religious Affairs Bureaucracy Works
[…] way to grasp how the religious affairs bureaucracy works is to view it historically, which is especially useful as the structure today is a holdover from the 1950s. When the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) came to power, it organized all non-communists who wished to cooperateor collaborateinto a “united front,” by which allies could be […]
Americans Drive on the Left and Other Truths I’ve Learned
Years ago, I was having a conversation with my Malaysian friend, and we started talking about how Malaysia has a lot of British influence. “We drive on the right like they do,” my friend explained.
“Wait, what?” I thought I had heard her wrong, or that she had misspoken. “You mean you drive on the left like they do.”
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
In 2023, the Chinese government issued new regulations on the registration of religious activity sites—the first update of these rules in over 15 years. What do they actually mean? How different are they from the earlier ones? What do they tell us about the church-state relationship in China today? What can we learn from […]