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Editorials
Chinese Education
From Hallowed to Hollow
For the third straight year in row, the number of college hopefuls taking the national university entrance exam, or gaokao, has dropped. Analysts trace the decline to a corresponding drop in the number of children born at the beginning of the last decade due to China’s one-child policy. However, the decrease also suggests two […]
The Facts about the Church in China
Facts about the church in China may be more readily available than they were 10 or 15 years ago. But more information does not necessarily produce greater clarity. Often the opposite results.
View From the Wall
China in 2020
Vol. 9, No. 3
[…] world, there are Chinese people energetically pursuing their various activities. China is no longer synonymous just with Chinese restaurants featuring all kinds of tasty delicacies, or with cheap consumer goods sold in discount stores. China already possesses the power to seriously influence world markets; to affect the decisions of the United Nations; even to […]
Coming to Terms with the Church
[…] to the point of renting hotel ballrooms to contain the crowds. Meanwhile a Three-Self church with a capacity of 1600 is reported to have run out of tickets to its Christmas musical nearly a month prior to the event. Christian activity, whether "registered" or "unregistered," is increasingly accepted as mainstream. Contrary to how China's […]
Flying against the Wind
Nestled in a spring-fed valley in the desert northeast of Los Angeles, St. Andrew’s Abbey is a long way from its roots in Chengdu. The only living link that remains is Brother Peter Zhou Bangjiu, a 91-year-old Sichuan native who rejoined the abbey in 1985 following his release from a Chinese labor camp.
Who Moved My Church?
[…] an end. Christians are now much more diffused throughout the world than they ever have been; yet they are also much more diffused within societies. Despite burgeoning numbers of new Christians, we are not seeing many new Christian states, certainly not in the manner of old Christendom. No longer does the word Christianity have […]
ChinaSource Perspective
The Great Repositioning
[…] opportunities created by China’s Belt and Road Initiative have resulted in a significant increase in the Chinese populations of many African and Middle Eastern countries. Meanwhile, the number of Chinese attempting to cross the border between Mexico and the United States has skyrocketed. In many ways the scenes that characterize Chinese migration today bring […]
Editorials
Whose Agenda
[…] his best-selling book that sparked the current interest in the BTJ movement, Paul Hattaway was careful to identify 100,000 workers as a vision. However, since the only number given in the whole book is 100,000, many among the Western Christian public assumed 100,000 missionaries are ready to be commissioned or have already been sent. […]
Editorials
A Larger Purpose
[…] those in their midst. China offers no shortage of opportunities to follow Christ’s example in ministering to the whole person. Figures from the early 1990s put the number of people with disabilities in China at 60 million; the total is probably much greater today. A growing elderly population and a shrinking number of younger […]
Book Reviews
When East Meets West in the Market Place
[…] nascent aircraft market, Xinhua’s drive to corner the market on financial news in China, and the political intrigue behind the emergence of competition among China’s domestic mobile phone carriers. Each chapter begins with an overview of the players and their goals, then goes into a detailed account of how the deals actually played out, […]