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View From the Wall
Families, Churches, and China’s Transition
[…] pursued not just political but also social revolution. The family, the foundation of the entire social structure, could not avoid the revolutionary storm. Friedrich Engel, in his book The Origin of Family, Private Property and the State, asserts the theory about family that is the most famous in communist ideology. Engel argues that the family […]
My ChinaSource Story
[…] migrant workers at another ChinaSource consultation in Shanghai. When Brent visited Shanghai in 2010, he asked to interview me and I learned that he was writing a book on urban Christians. By that time, I had graduated and started teaching at a university in Shanghai. My research had shifted from migration and urban poverty […]
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The Three-Self Patriotic Movement
Divergent Perspectives and Grassroots Realities
[…] Bible’s injunctions to keep on meeting, further proof in their eyes of the compromised, political nature of official churches. More often, as I point out in my book, house church leaders mention the theological reform campaigns launched by TSPM leaders in response to CCP directives as evidence of their infidelity.2 As Barthel notes in […]
China and Me
[…] pleased to hand the keyboard over to Laura de Ruiter, who grew up in China. In the coming months, she will be sharing thoughts related to the book she is currently writing. Here she describes the disconnect between her experiences in China and the China narratives she encountered when she moved to the West […]
A Visit to Shaoshan and What I’ll Not Forget
[…] me a side of China I will never forget. It was the time we went to Shaoshan, Hunan, Mao Zedong’s hometown. The day was beautiful. Sunny. Bright blue skies. A perfect day for tourism. As I looked around me, the village was packed. Hundreds of Chinese had come that day (as every day) to […]
Messy Choices in Messy Situations
[…] the Chinese people. He was active in China from 1934 until 1950 and returned immediately when the opportunity presented itself in the 1980s.1 In one of his books, China: Christian Students Face the Revolution, Adeney shares on the ground accounts and stories from the 1940s and 1950s. In reading this book again just a […]
The 2023 Regulations for Religious Activity Site Registration
What the Party Doesn’t Want You to Know
[…] religions. Since Xi Jinping was selected to be China’s top leader in 2012, the People’s Republic of China has entered the End of Era, as a recent book by scholar Carl Minzner put it.1 Students of Chinese politics and society have characterized the period from the late 1970s or early 1980s until today as […]
Official Protestant Groups Plan Next Five Years of Sinicization
What Does the TSPM/CCC 5-Year Plan Tell Us about the Direction of Official Protestantism?
[…] be sure, since the late 1990s, under the late Bishop Ding Guangxun, the official churches began actively seeking to “reconstruct theology.” But as I discuss in my book, that campaign faced stiff resistance as young seminarians at the national seminary publicly opposed the campaign and were thrown out of the seminary as a consequence. […]
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Demystifying China’s New Leaders
Once again China is in the midst of political succession. A new generation of Chinese leaders, known as the “fourth generation,” is poised to take the helm of power in the country. What do we know about these leaders?
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The Effects of China’s Global Trajectory
The effects of China's increasing global influence and involvement is being felt both around the world and at home in China.