...HIV infections and staggeringly high abortion rates. Science / Technology China’s Big Year in Space Sparks Excitement and Speculation (November 30, 2016, Scientific American) The year’s Chinese checklist also included...
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December 8, 2016
...of pity (still a key motivator for North American charity). News media emphases and trends in the North American mission “industry” mean that now other parts of the globe exert...
Swells in the Middle Kingdom
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December 9, 2016
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December 22, 2016
...27, 2016, CNN) Paula Madison grew up knowing she was different. Born in the predominantly African-American neighborhood of Harlem, New York, she was raised by a single mother who looked...
Joann Pittman
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December 29, 2016
...for Backing Mao Are Hailed in China (January 1, 2017, The New York Times) In 1944, a group of American diplomats in a beat-up C-47 propeller plane swooped down onto...
Joann Pittman
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January 5, 2017
...by the British, the mission of modernizing and civilizing the world, is a widespread element of Chinese nationalism.[11] Joan Tien writes that BTJ functions as an extension of American evangelical...
GJ, Si Shi (四石)
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January 19, 2017
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...welcome? American companies fear China's turning its back on them (January 18, 2017, Chicago Tribune) American companies don't feel welcome in China any more. And while Chinese President Xi Jinping...
Joann Pittman
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...China, there will come a time when you will pay the price for that. Going after American companies operating illegally in China is low hanging and lucrative fruit for the...
Joann Pittman
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January 26, 2017
...Globe and Mail) Canadian border agents and airlines are being warned to be on the lookout for tampered Canadian visas from Chinese nationals coming from Shanghai and the Ethiopian capital...
Joann Pittman
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February 9, 2017
...Jesus without Dishonoring Your Parents: Asian American Discipleship. Downers Grove, Il: InterVarsity Press. Notes ^ One Taiwanese missionary was interviewed as well making the total number of interviewees 12. She...
GJ, Si Shi (四石)
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February 16, 2017
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Scholarship
...the true internationalization of American campuses. Did you catch that? 40% of international students had no close friends amongst their American classmates, a rate that was especially high amongst East...
Joann Pittman
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February 27, 2017
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...the American Dream (March 14, 2017, Sixth Tone) In a sunny room somewhere in Maine, in the American northeast, a Chinese boy plays the piano. The tones he strikes sound...
Joann Pittman
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March 16, 2017