...pandemic and various lockdowns, foreign missionaries were forced to leave, although local believers and workers have remained. Many churches and organizations, both local and foreign, are still seeking opportunities to...
...China’s ‘One-Child Generation’ Got Trapped in the Population Pyramid (October 2, 2024, South China Morning Post, subscription required) Wendy Liu has grown to dread the sound of her phone. These...
...agricultural society. The number nine, or “九” (jiu), is a yang number in Chinese cosmology, symbolizing vitality and strength. The festival is celebrated on the ninth day of the ninth...
...along the coast. These latter missionaries tended to take a more circumspect approach to the local culture, encouraging their converts to give up Chinese traditional rites that seemed ambivalent at...
...in the number of arrests in the first half of this year, according to defense lawyers and recent government figures. In the six months to June 30, prosecutors approved the...
In 1973, I left my rural Christian childhood home and became a university student. I experienced the dissonance of a world that was much bigger, more diverse, more troubled, and...
...local medical licenses, visas, earnings to supplement financial shortages, and as a way to make sense to the people among whom they served. The best-laid plans often go astray. Chinese...
...Cross-Strait Relations (October 23, 2024, China Media Project) Last week in Beijing, more than 80 scholars and officials attended a grand ceremony to drive home the simple point that Taiwan...
...world. The city sits near the head of the Pearl River Delta, and for many years has been the means through which foreign influence first entered Mainland China. Guangzhou is...
...among unreached people groups, they begin to display the gospel. Yes, they can also read the Scriptures, but the local church is the display of the gospel and the body...
...Power Vertical: Centralization in the PRC’s State Security System (November 15, 2024, China Brief Archives – Jamestown Foundation) Structural changes that began in 2016–2017 mean that local state security bureaus...
...key actors from local civil society and aligning them with the Communist Party’s agenda. The Political Gaps in the BRICS Wall (November 22, 2024, East Asia Forum) The increasing political...