Incomparably Great Power
...an online book club discussion for our friends at ERRChina/CAC. The book is Redeemed by Fire: The Rise of Popular Christianity in China, by Lian Xi. Register here to join...
...an online book club discussion for our friends at ERRChina/CAC. The book is Redeemed by Fire: The Rise of Popular Christianity in China, by Lian Xi. Register here to join...
...book for ERRC’s online book club discussion will be Other Rivers: A Chinese Education, by Peter Hessler. The discussion will be facilitated by Joann Pittman from ChinaSource. Grab the book...
...contextual member care model for Chinese mission workers (94). After reading the other articles in part two of the book, I can also see that models from other non-Western regions...
...some time there but want to gain a stronger general knowledge of Greater China. What this book lacks in depth and academic analysis, it achieves in breadth and concision. Because...
...Reviewed by Brad Burgess As I draft this review, I sit in the center of Beijing the day before the closing ceremony of the 2008 Olympics. Getting caught up in...
...it represents the persistence of a pre-modern tradition in forms that have adapted themselves to modern political economies.[7] I’m glad I read this book. Its stories, analyses and conclusions have...
...Reviewed by Andrew Kaiser As I prepared for my first visit to China in 1990, I had a clear vision of what China would be like. I expected to see...
...mooncake (September 13, 2016, Sinosplice) Like many foreigners (and many modern Chinese), I am not fond of the mooncake (despite once participating in a mooncake-eating contest). Yes, I am aware...
...are pretty rigid about their eating schedules, and now I realize that I have been reprogrammed. I think of 12pm as the lunchtime, with deviations as early as 11:30am or...
...read the book of Job. I realized I had never understood the book before. I did not know Job’s grief and indignation, and I felt that his two friends made...
...often blindside well-meaning foreigners attempting to navigate the maze of relationships that constitute the Chinese business environment. Most helpful is the “Little Red Book of Business” that concludes each chaptertwo...
...book club to discuss Jennifer Lin’s book Shanghai Faithful: Betrayal and Forgiveness in a Chinese Family. “Through the 150-year saga of a single family, this book vividly dramatizes the remarkable...