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Dalian!
[…] our trusty and slightly beat-up railway timetable in hand, we got into the long line. Based on our reading of the time table, we decided to buy tickets on a train that was leaving at 8:00 p.m. the following day. This shouldn’t be difficult. We knew how to say 8:00 p.m. (ba dian). When […]
How to Learn a Language, Part 2
How to Work Hard
[…] 2, in which case er (two) changes to liang+measure word when it’s a quantity of two. Thus liangzhang (NOT erzhang) can refer to something like two bus tickets. We had been in language school about six months when my wife and I wanted to visit some friends one evening. At the bus stop, I […]
China’s Churches Celebrate Christmas
[…] of them. To my surprise, I found that one of the churches had no reservation information. After checking, I learnt that they had started to issue admission tickets in front of the church gate as early as half a month ago and there had been no online reservations. However, that church had canceled its […]
An Invitation to Lament
[…] It was the day our entire family had tickets to fly back to Shanghai and return to our life in China. We left in the summer of 2019 for a regularly scheduled furlough. Enter COVID-19 in the spring of 2020, and our scheduled return that summer was long delayed. In January of 2021, valid […]
Is Christianity a “Chinese” Religion?
[…] Taylor, The Generalissimo’s Son: China Ching-kuo and the Revolutions in China and Taiwan (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000), p.223. 9See Jean-Pierre Charbonnier, Christians in China, pp. 159-174, 201-21; Covell, Confucius, the Buddha, and Christ; Sanneh, Disciples of All Nations, pp. 243-270. 10Aikman, Jesus In Beijing, pp. 193 ff.; Paul Hattaway, Back to Jerusalem: Three […]
Supporting Article
Where Is the Chinese Missionary Movement Headed in the New Era?
Since Xi Jinping assumed the role of Chinese President in 2013, he has put forward the grand vision of the Chinese Dream, the historical mission and future realization of the “Two Centennial Goals”1 along with the strategic blueprint of the Belt and Road Initiative. Under this national vision and blueprint for development, the Chinese […]
Peoples of China
How Many Unreached Peoples Are There in China?
[…] have at our disposal. So, the answer to the question of how many unreached people groups there are in China is: we don’t know. The ethnologue lists 205 ethno-linguistic groups in China, some of which could be classified as reached. Paul Hattaway of Asian Minorities Outreach has identified over 400 groups, again, some of […]
November 14, 2013
The Church Today (November 11, 2013, Chinese Church Voices)
In Section Two of the article, posted here, the author talks about the church-consciousness (ecclesiology) of Chinese Christians today. He argues that Chinese believers have a weak understanding of what the church is, and gives reasons for this. He also describes some of the characteristics of […]
Book Reviews
Quadriplegia and God
Joni: An Unforgettable Story by Joni Eareckson Tada. Zondervan, 2001, 205 pages. ISBN: 0-310-24001-8; paperback $12.97 at Amazon. Reviewed by Jeff McNair Joni: An Unforgettable Story, chronicles the life of Joni Eareckson Tada. As a young woman, Joni was severely injured in a diving accident. She relates how her life changed physically in that […]
ZGBriefs | October 19, 2017
Why Do We Keep Writing About Chinese Politics As if We Know More Than We Do? (October 16, 2017, China File)
Even the best-sourced experts can’t discern how policy preferences and objectives shape political coalitions or élite Party divisions, and we lack critical diagnostic information that would be necessary to confirm or refute […]