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China’s Past as Key to the Present
Descriptions of life in China today often contain words like “unprecedented” and “fast-changing.” Yet in an effort to capture all that is new, such descriptions miss the fact that, in many respects, China has come this way before. As a civilization that has experienced cycles of opening and closing, renewal and decline, China’s current […]
Taking Ourselves (and the Gospel) Seriously
[…] he projected his contempt for the current regime in China upon Chinese people everywhere. Coming at a time when Asians are being publicly blamed for the “China virus,” his insensitive attack further fueled the anti-Asian sentiment that is at an all-time high in communities around the globe. When another evangelical leader called out his […]
Editorials
Charting the Future of China’s Ethnic Minorities
[…] partial image of the peoples they aim to represent. Photos and printed words are static. Peoples are dynamic. To adequately engage the peoples of China in this new century requires a research agenda that not only addresses the peoples as they have been but also anticipates how they are likely to change given the […]
Some Additions to the Summer Bookshelf
The latest issue of The China Journal is out and features a host of reviews of new books that should be of interest to those concerned with developments in China. Here is a sampling of some of the latest scholarship touching on current issues affecting Chinese society and culture. Xinjiang and the Modern Chinese […]
ChinaSource Perspective
More Blessed to Receive
[…] they received much more than they contributed. As one long-time China worker put it, “They may have left China, but China has not left them.” They gained new friendships. They left with cherished memories and with new perspectives on themselves and what it means to be a follower of Christ in a land not […]
Policy, Implementation, and Shifting Official Perceptions of the Church in China
[…] church in Chinese society. In this very fluid environment, the international Christian community has an opportunity to be proactive in supporting Christians who are carving out a new space for the church in Chinese society and in encouraging government officials to take risks in not merely allowing but also sanctioning a new degree of […]
Is China Rewriting the Bible?
[…] much a political one. In response, the Three Self Patriotic Movement (TSPM), the officially sanctioned organization charged with overseeing China’s Protestant believers, launched a five-year campaign to promote the Sinicization of Christianity. The TSPM’s five-year plan covers a range of activities, touching on theological education, worship styles, art and literature, and, of course, promoting […]
Mao’s Black Box: Resilience and Religious Revival in Wenzhou
A Book Review
Xiaoxuan Wang, Maoism and Grassroots Religion: The Communist Revolution and the Reinvention of Religious Life in China. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Available on Amazon. After touring China in the early 1980s, Christian radio personality Carl Lawrence wrote about the Christians he met during his travels. His book, titled The Church in China: How It Survives […]
Beyond the Standard Narrative
[…] authorities are actively hunting for the remaining unregistered congregations that continue to operate, and those reaching out to share their faith risk fines, detainment, or other punishments. New laws have banned religion from all but authorized Christian websites and licensed clergy.1 For those following the tightened restrictions on China’s Christians, these observations may not […]
Editorials
Changing Culture
[…] order to secure their futures. Meanwhile globalization and the rapid growth of the internet have created numerous opportunities for cultural interflow, resulting in the creation of a new hybrid vocabulary as foreign ideas are adopted into Chinese. These along with many other cultural changes too numerous to list here suggest that China’s reform and […]