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Five Words Google Can’t Translate

It is exhilarating to move to a new country and communicate with people so different from ourselves. Whether through Chinese you have learned or English you have taught, the sense of accomplishment can be deep and genuine.

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China’s Education Dilemma: The Search for Alternatives

[…] whether or how the official educational establishment will accept these innovative approaches. Nonetheless, organizations already working in the field of education would do well to consider the newly open doors for partnership with Chinese believers who are pioneering these educational models. Harvard-trained educator C. H. offers the idea of a "learning community" as an […]

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In Search of Structure

The Pull of Denominations in China

[…] to ask whether God has in fact allowed this particular attribute to develop within the church for a reason and without examining both the old and the new critically in the light of Scripture. The current discussion on Reformed theology, and the wider examination of the role of denominations in China today, are necessary […]

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How’s My English?

Anyone who has spent time teaching English in China will no doubt be familiar with English Corners. Love 'em or hate 'em, they are a staple of life for teachers of English.

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English and the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games

The modern Olympic Games have never been awarded to a host country whose citizens did not have English as a common language. The promise to be the host city presented enormous language challenges to Beijing. Many of Beijing’s 13 million people will be working with the athletes and spectators. Nearly every walk of life will […]

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The Slippery Slope of English Teaching

Teaching English in China—does it isolate you or open doors into the community and culture? 

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Preparing to Teach English in China?

Since 1980 when I first went to teach at Shanxi Agricultural University, having just completed an MA TESOL, English language teaching in China has changed immensely. Exams and national curricula have been developed and revised. The age at which people study English has gotten lower and lower. Many Chinese teachers with excellent English and […]

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The Three-Self Patriotic Movement

Divergent Perspectives and Grassroots Realities

[…] Missionary Society, London: Scottiswoode & Company, 1880, https://archive.org/stream/memoirofrevhvenn00knig/memoirofrevhvenn00knig_djvu.txt, accessed on July 15, 2020, 316. Vala, Carsten T. The Politics of Protestant Churches and the Party-State in China: God above Party? (Routledge, 2017), p. 90. Or see here: google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C21&q=carsten+vala+politics+of+protestant+churches+and+party-state&btnG=">https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C21&q=carsten+vala+politics+of+protestant+churches+and+party-state&btnG=. Anthony Barthels, “Sinicization: Political, Social, and Doctrinal Implications,” 2020, Asia Lutheran Seminary, Master’s Thesis.

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Conference on English Language Teaching

An English teaching conference centered on the theme Imago Dei: Celebrating the Beauty and Benefits of Diversity.

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Chinese Intellectuals and the Search for Modern China

[…] took to the streets in Hong Kong and Los Angeles, calling on God to judge with justice.  Soon China returned to an awkward normality.  Christian professionals and English teachers returned to China.  The economy took off in China and in the United States as China became a major trading partner with the United States.  […]