The Spirit of the Enterprise
Perusing the pages of an in-flight magazine on a Chinese airline, I came across an editorial on the “faith” or “belief system” of the enterprise (qiye xinyang). With the explosion...
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Benefits from Hosting the Olympic Games
We stood with the throngs on the night of July 13, 2001 waiting to hear who would win the bid to host the 2008 Olympic Games. The tension was mounting...
A New Era for House Church Leaders
...in total. Is this open door invitation extended to foreigners as well? In theory and practice, the answer is yes. Zion often has foreign visitors and already has an American...
Compromising Identities
...I’m American as well?” Experience has shown me there is not enough room in people’s minds for the concept of biculturalism. To my community here, I am either American or...
The Changing Role of Foreign Workers in China
Recently, I found myself counseling three foreigners who, with many tears, told me they had just been told to leave China by a Taiwanese/American pastor who boasted to them that...
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,...
A Big Piece of the Puzzle
...had returned within a year. Worse, about ninety percent of the returnees did not go back. A Columbian missions leader has estimated that forty percent of all Latin American missionaries...
Convergence or Divergence?
In the early 1990s, Japanese-American scholar Fukuyama introduced his notion of “the end of history.” Using the collapse of the Soviet Union as proof of complete victory for the Western...
Cultural Continuity and Discontinuity in Chinese Church Leadership
...(cf. Sidney Forsythe, An American Missionary in China, 1895-1905), and themselves understood very little about the officialdom and gentry around them. Resentment turned to verbal violence: Confucian scholars wrote tracts...
Glorification of Educational Success
...study of 50 Western American mothers and 48 Chinese immigrant mothers, almost 70% of the Western mothers said either that “stressing academic success is not good for children” or that...
History and Culture in China’s Education
...These influences are visible throughout Chinese culture: in art, music, and education. They are as distinctly Chinese as baseball and apple pie are considered distinctly American. Culture permeates all areas...
The Four Pillars of Peacemaking
...our wrongs, confront in love, submit to our church, or forgive those who hurt us. Whether we are Chinese, African, Asian, Latin American, European, or North American, our natural instinct...