Results for: American
Passing the Faith to the Next Generation
Reaching American-Born/Second-Generation Chinese
Key issues for Chinese American Churches.
Creativity and Faith—A Chinese-American Perspective
Asian Americans are uniquely positioned to be bridge-builders, revealing glimpses of shalom in the world. And that is a beautiful thing.
The Chinese American Church as a New Community for Self-Identification
Thoughts While Reading the 2020 Winter Issue of CSQ
While reading the 2020 winter issue of ChinaSource Quarterly, “Chinese American Christianity in History and Today,” an article by Timothy Tseng caught my attention as he wrote about the impact of the Chinese American Protestant church in the last fifty years or so. When we consider the influence of the concept of “self” in […]
Matter & Spirit: A Chinese/American Art Exhibition
[…] contemporary life, particularly in highly materialistic—and increasingly secular—cultures, like the US and China?” This is how the brochure that accompanies the exhibition Matter & Spirit: A Chinese/ American Art Exhibition begins. This is, of course, too big of a question for such an exhibit to provide a definitive answer, but it does give us […]
How American Christians are Responding to Pluralism
[…] How Are We to Deal With Those Who Hate the Church? In recent years, because the issue of same-sex marriage has been pushed to the fore, traditional American views of marriage and morality have been greatly challenged. As a result, there continues to be conflict between sexual discrimination and religious freedom. Most people are […]
Second-Generation Chinese Youth—Kiwi and American
A Reader Responds
[…] railroad tracks separated by the ties, will not be easily accomplished. The status of equality has often come only after long, contentious, and costly battles in Asian American churches. The more common scenario is for second-generation Asians to leave in a “silent exodus” as described in an article published in 1996.2 That was the […]
Compromising Identities
[…] My arrogance simply turned that edge back on myselflike a knife, making me vulnerable to rejection from both of the cultures I claimed. As the sole Chinese American member of a white team, I hear a lot of “China bashing” when cultures collide and tempers flare. “I hate learning Chinese. The only reason I’ll […]
Chinese Upbringing and US Culture
A Third-Culture Kid Bridges East and West
[…] I uttered those words. Despite being a bright red-headed girl and the only non-Chinese student in my entire school, at times I considered myself more Chinese than American. I wore my Communist red scarf with pride, not understanding what it implied, only knowing that I was part of my class, part of my school. […]
Supporting Article
Chinese Christian Returnees in Late Qing Dynasty and Early Republic
Contributions and Difficulties
[…] Episcopal Church. During her 20 years of medical practice in Jiujiang, Shi trained more than 500 nurses and led them in Bible studies. In 1920, Shi and American missionary Jennie V. Hughes founded the Bethel Mission and in 1930, Ji Zhiwen (Andrew Gih, 计志文) took the mission further and initiated the Bethel Worldwide Evangelistic […]