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How Many Christians Are There in China? It’s Complicated
In 2020, I wrote a series of posts titled How Many Christians Are There in China? Preferred Estimates. In that series, I suggested that there are no reliable statistics as to how many Christians there actually are in China. The best we can do is estimate, and every individual or organization has their preferred […]
ZGBriefs | November 3, 2016
<p></p> <p>How the Education Consultancy Industry Fuels Essay Fraud (November 2, 2016, Sixth Tone)<br /> Once again, as high school students across China agonize over their American college essays, allegations of fraud plague the education industry. Dipont Education Management Group, a large Shanghai-based educational consultancy, has become the most recent target of accusations, with reports […]
ZGBriefs | April 23, 2015
<h3></h3> <p><strong>With an Influx of Newcomers, Little Chinatowns Dot a Changing Brooklyn</strong> (April 15, 2015, <em>The New York Times</em>)<br /> With Chinese immigrants now the second largest foreign-born group in the city and soon to overtake Dominicans for the top spot, they are reshaping neighborhoods far beyond their traditional enclaves. Nowhere is the rapid growth […]
Lead Article
Chinese Children at Risk
[…] disabled in the community is increasing. Spearheaded by Deng Pufang, the son of Deng Xiaoping, who is spinal cord injured, these changes are also encouraged by the 2008 Olympics. Community-based programs are starting for the blind, deaf and physically disabled in Chinese cities. Trainers and mentors in all areas of therapy, special education and […]
Hearing from the Church in China, Part 2
Trying to “Keep the Flies Out”
[…] to the nearly closed.” Global Times editor and Renmin University Dean Wang Wen spoke at an official seminar on “Xi Jinping Thought on Diplomacy” on May 9, 2023, calling for a “comprehensive opening-up to the outside world.”2 According to Wang, the proportion of foreign residents in China is stated as being approximately 0.05% (a […]
What Are Our Young People Thinking: Post 95 Generation
[…] past two weeks, we have posted part one and two of an article titled “What are our Young People Thinking: How to Witness to Youth of the Post 1980’s, 1990’s and 1995’s,”, originally published in The Church Magazine. Part one looked specifically at the unique characteristics of the post-80s generation of Chinese youth. Part two looked specifically at the unique […]
Management Issues in the Rural Church
[…] use 100,000 to 200,000 RMB to employ two or three full-time church workers for more than ten years. There are many peasant laborers in the cities. If 20 people, each one earning around 1000 RMB/month gave 5%, that would be 50 RMB/person, enough to support one full-time pastor. If there were 100 laborers, and […]
ZGBriefs
March 5, 2015
[…] Province, the strategically important frontier region that shields North Koreas east coast ports, including Wonsan. At Least 2 Tibetans Reported Dead in Custody in Western China (August 20, 2014, The New York Times) At least two Tibetans died in police custody in southwestern China after a protest last week in which residents were shot […]
The Tricolor Religious Market and the Growth of Christianity
The Great Awakening in China (3)
[…] Again, these are underreports by the party-state. Some independent scholars in China and outside China have reported higher estimates.8 One scholarly book said that there were about 20 million Protestants by 1990. Another scholar said there were about 50 million in the early 2000s. The Pew Research Center estimated that there were 58 million […]
View From the Wall
A Field Study of “The Church of Almighty God” Cult
In early 2013, China’s official media first labeled “Eastern Lightning,” more recently known as “The Church of Almighty God,” as a cult. Thus, the group entered the public arena and began to gain public awareness. However, due to the difficulties and risks involved in doing a field study of such a secretive organization, researchers […]