Reflections on Ten Years of Work with the Church in China
1. Learn new vocabulary The biggest hurdle for American and Chinese to overcome is vocabulary that represents the conflict of two cultures and two mindsets. The Chinese church and American...
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Preparing for China?
...literature, American religious holidays like Christmas and Easter, or American culture and history to present Christian concepts, then let people ask questions or come to you privately. Directly approaching a...
The Hidden China
...two-week horse ride through dangerous bandit-filled mountains in the 1940s were now a short flight and bus ride away from a provincial capital. Perhaps most important of all, Mandarin became...
The People of the Hour
The “Chinese” Way of Doing Things: Perspectives on American-Born Chinese and the Chinese Church in North America by Samuel Ling with Clarence Cheuk. China Horizon, 1999, 229 pp. ISBN 1-892-63202-0,...
Reverse Culture Shock
...a week in Hong Kong and another in Japan with understanding friends, it still took us six months to adjust back to American culture. Why couldn’t we feel at home...
Taking a New Look
...so disturbingly evident.” (p.17) Three trends that threaten to derail the North American missions movement are identified: The captivity of the movement—and much of the evangelical church—to American cultural realities,...
Demystifying China’s New Leaders
...in the West, especially in the United States, they may form a pro-American force in China’s policy-making circles. With the recent arrival of China’s new ambassador to the United States,...
Challenges and Opportunities in China’s Turbulent Future
...American attempts to impose human rights values. People believe these efforts reflect U.S. political interests more than genuine concern for the Chinese people. Social and political reform is inevitable. Economic...
Life of a Student
...United States. He is studying English at the PLIES Intensive English School, living with an American host family and touring Los Angeles, Washington, Chicago and New York City. Wei is...
Seeing China through the Lenses of History
...paroxysm of anger and anti-American vitriol over the bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, and the U.S. State Department had urged Americans not to travel in China. I, however,...
Understanding China’s Intellectuals
...There is evidence that mass media and the stock market may supplant intellectual inquiry in shaping China’s value system. Yet national pride, anti-American anger, and indigenous religions are very much...
Impacting an Empire
...prepared,” said Gary Russell, executive director of China Harvest. Until now, no one has known of any North American-based training center that prepares individuals specifically for China service. In response...