Resources on Holistic Business

ChinaSource Blog Posts

A Different Perspective

From an entrerpeneur and businessman working in China.

ChinaSource Blog Posts

Hope for Today, and Tomorrow!

Good news and beautiful cards from Shanxi Province.

Blog Entries

Snapshots from Another World

Bringing hope—both economic and spiritual—to poor rural families in Yangqu County.

Blog Entries

Christmas Cards Made in Shanxi

But Made with a Purpose

If you haven't bought Christmas cards yet this year, consider sending hand-cut cards from Yangqu County, China.

Blog Entries

Gospel Advancement in the Marketplace

The gospel is advancing in the workplaces of China. Learn more in the August episode of ChinaSource Conversations. 

ChinaSource Conversations

Serving Marketplace Leaders in China

A ChinaSource Podcast

This podcast looks at faith in the workplace through the lens of a new study on Christian marketplace leaders in China. Tyler and Mark, the principal researchers, discuss their own experiences in working with Chinese Christian CEOs and reflect on lessons learned from their recent study. Tyler is originally from...

Blog Entries

Business as Mission or Business as Blessing?

Are you looking to start a business to fulfill a mission or to bless a community? The latest ChinaSource Conversations podcast, “Businesses that Bless,” seeks to answer that and other questions related to doing business in China.

ChinaSource Conversations

Businesses that Bless

A ChinaSource Podcast

Brent Fulton, president of ChinaSource talks to Gary Hopwood, chief global officer for David C. Cook, and Nora Hughes, the founder of Business4Blessing about doing business in China to bless the people and the community. They distinguish the business-as-blessing concept from other ways of viewing using business to bring the gospel...

Blog Entries

Chinese Supply Chains and the Gospel

Tainted milk, diseased pigs sold on the market, 40-year-old meat discovered in a warehouse in Hunan, and lead-contaminated water in a newly built Hong Kong housing estate­—these are just a few examples of the food scare nightmares that have come to light in China in recent years. More such stories...

Blog Entries

Chinese Christian Entrepreneurs

Beyond Weber

An experienced business leader in China remarked that, while there is the expectation that Christians should somehow conduct business differently, the question of what exactly this should look like remains a difficult one.

Chinese Church Voices

Business as Mission with Chinese Characteristics

Two takes on business as mission from a Chinese perspective.

Blog Entries

Business as Mission—What I Have Seen

Lessons from a Christian doing business in China.

Blog Entries

Starfish Project

An Opportunity to Get Involved

Join the work of Starfish Project and help provide alternative employment and holistic care services to exploited and abused women in Asia.

Blog Entries

Beyond Beijing

Life in the Chinese Countryside

Since China's great gǎigé kāifàng (Reform and Opening) experiment was begun by reformists in the Communist Party of China (CPC) under Deng Xiaoping in late 1978, tens of thousands of articles—in print and online—have been written about the huge changes and nearly miraculous standard-of-living improvements that have happened throughout China....

ChinaSource Quarterlies

CEOs in China

Vol. 9, No. 4

2007 Winter Issue

ChinaSource Quarterlies

Business in China

Vol. 8, No. 4

2006 Winter Issue

Lead Article

Business as Ministry

A look at one business that is being used effectively to bring the gospel to the people of one community.

Supporting Article

The Interior Decoration Tycoon of Shanghai

The story of Jiang Jiexue, one of China's Christian entrepreneurs.

Articles

God in China’s Marketplace

Holistic Entrepreneurs in China, Tetsunao Yamamori and Kim-Kwong Chan,  A Review by John Swem

Supporting Article

East-West Exchange Promotes Nonprofit Development in China

A report of the China Charity Federation's visit to the US in the fall of 2000.