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China’s (Unfinished) Education Explosion
The number of colleges has effectively doubled, and college graduates have increased from approximately one million in 1998 to 7.5 million in 2012.1 China's spending on research and development has outpaced that of many other developed nations. Given the growth of the middle class and the fact that most families have only one child, […]
Lead Article
The Marketization of China’s Education
[…] while only two-fifths of expenditures goes to elementary and junior high levels. In some rural areas the actual per pupil expenditure is less than 10 yuan (US$1. 20) per year. Rural parents are beginning to question whether schooling is a way out of poverty in modern China. Even hard working students often have little […]
“Passive” Church Planting in China
[…] church have to be big and grand? The other obstacle was political. Planting another church was not on this pastor’s mind until the SARS crisis hit in 2003. Suddenly it was forbidden to hold any large-scale public gatherings. Unregistered church meetings that had previously managed to avoid attention by authorities found themselves under increasing […]
3 Questions: A New Look at Chinese Christians
[…] tell stories spanning from the 1950s to the current day. Today the presence of Christians in China is embedded in what we term a "paradoxical reality." The number of Christians has been growing but, due to media censorship, the average citizens' perception of their presence is limited. Unless they have access to global news […]
How Not to End Persecution
[…] hopeful sign. More than 1,800 advocates for religious freedom from around the world convened on the nation’s capital in early February for what Co-Chair Katrina Lantos Swett called the most successful summit to date. Great Promise and Peril Events in Washington surrounding the summit, however, conveyed mixed messages. Rather than paving the way for […]
Beyond the Standard Narrative
[…] more likely to draw official attention. The size and perceived influence of unregistered groups is another factor. After several high-profile congregations were shut down in the late 2010s, other groups began proactively moving to a decentralized church model, a transition that was hastened by pandemic restrictions beginning in 2020. Finally, the church’s historical relationship […]
Enduring Friendship
[…] they discern what it means to live as faithful witnesses in cultures that are increasingly hostile to the gospel. In the wake of a pandemic that has called into question basic assumptions about how churches function, there is an opportunity to rethink together the shape of Christian community for this new era. Increasing numbers […]
Editorials
Measuring Change in China
Whose Yardstick?
[…] visitors ventured warily into one of China’s large urban churches, visions of “Potemkin Village” dancing in their heads, only to emerge an hour later remarking that the service was “just like anything you’d experience in a church in America” (or Singapore, or Canada ….)? Of course there are similarities, but to conclude that Chinese […]
Rediscovering the Plot
[…] beings who can do nothing in their own power, but are continuously dependent upon empowerment by the Spirit. But also, in a sense, they are not really called to accomplish anything, only to point to what God has done and is doing, to give testimony to what they have seen and heard and touched.7 […]
Book Reviews
Closing a Perception/Reality Gap
A Book Review
[…] Administration, and Regulation; a Research Handbook. Santa Barbara, California: Institute for the Study of American Religion, and Hong Kong: Hong Kong Institute for Culture, Commerce, and Religion, 2005. ISBN-10: 0915051036; ISBN-13: 978-0915051038; 108 pages, paperback, $9.45 at Amazon.com. To some extent, Western perceptions of the religious situation in China are stuck in a time […]