Against the Storm
...American people. The struggles of displaced people transcend history and geography. The preceding story was told in the San Francisco news in 1936 and more fully developed in John Steinbecks...
...American people. The struggles of displaced people transcend history and geography. The preceding story was told in the San Francisco news in 1936 and more fully developed in John Steinbecks...
...and time use; Chinese modesty and humility; making friends with the Chinese; teaching and learning among the Chinese; negotiating and institutional decision making; and the concept of “face” in Chinese-American...
...professionals. Some of this is due to the effect of Western assumptions and approaches in evangelism and missions. Much of American Protestantism is chastised because of its emphasis on conversions...
Every nation has its national cultural mythology, part truth and part legend. Sometimes it is in formal social consensus around a “civil religion,” like American patriotism, which sees a role...
...Key actors include the traditional American campus ministries and ministries to internationals, all of which have become increasingly focused on Chinese graduate students and visiting scholars—the most responsive among all...
...learn to recognize genuine heresies. The increased association and involvement with American (or foreign) Christian groups is a serious threat to the health of house church networks. Several major networks...
...Fruit, Inc., said he found the group “intensely curious, genuinely interested in learning about how the American nonprofit sector works and in doing what is best for the people in...
...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...
...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...
...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,...
...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...
...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,...