ZGBriefs | October 30, 2025
...number and rank of the toppled officials. This suggests the removals are as much about Mr. Xi’s strategy to control China’s military and political elite as they are about individual...
...number and rank of the toppled officials. This suggests the removals are as much about Mr. Xi’s strategy to control China’s military and political elite as they are about individual...
...book-writing from “The Souls of China and Sparks,” two books that I enjoyed very much last year, and would definitely recommend to anyone hoping to understand China’s grassroots movements to...
...new People’s Republic rose. Her father had worked for that government; her mother carried the memories of flight and loss that would shape a lifetime. Seventy-five years later, here we...
...a Number: China Eases Age Restrictions on Civil Service (October 14, 2025, Sixth Tone) For years, 35 was typically the cutoff age for anyone seeking to be a civil servant...
...the Berean example. This posture at the start of the book unwittingly places the book on a pedestal of superiority, which does not augur well for a world or global mission that...
...enter Mainland China often requires filling out pages of paperwork, paying more than US$100, and waiting days for the documents to be processed. But for a growing number of visitors,...
...the Pope!” I thought about this encounter a lot while reading this book. China’s Church Divided tells the story of the fraught relationship between the Chinese Catholic Church, the Vatican, and the...
...of the East (东方圣城).” The Glamour and the Gloom of Cabin Life for China’s Female Flight Attendants (September 12, 2025, The World of Chinese) With many American and European airlines...
...Chinese are aged 60 or older, a number expected to exceed 500 million by 2050. This surge stems from both Mao-era family policies and soaring life expectancy, up from 46.6...
...harshly from the vantage point of 2025. The book touches on many topics relevant to Chinese missions. This book broadly covers areas of member care, from isolation to trauma to...
...moral dedication. Economics / Trade / Business Mini Labubus Are Coming After Your Mobile Phone, as Pop Mart Aims to Double 2025 Sales (August 20, 2025, South China Morning Post)...
...backpropagation. When the number of training samples is less than the number of model parameters, it is common to adopt pre-trained networks to construct larger networks to achieve superior performance....