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Reading Tea Leaves from the 2021 National Religious Work Conference
[…] tone and emphasis, the language, and the concepts in the major speeches are all scrutinized by officials for how they should go about their daily work. Such national gatherings kick off a cascade of meetings at lower levels where officials who “manage” religion on the ground scrutinize top leaders’ speeches, policies, and other documents. […]
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The Three-Self Patriotic Movement
Divergent Perspectives and Grassroots Realities
[…] movement against foreign imperialism. It gained real institutional form when Protestant elites, who had been selected by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for their loyalty, established a national association in the early 1950s (alongside official religious associations for the four other “official” religions; Catholicism was deemed a separate religion). From the founding of the […]
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How China’s Religious Affairs Bureaucracy Works
[…] to serving as a pastor. After approaching an official church pastor, he is encouraged to apply for the entrance exam that decides whether he will attend the national seminary, a regional seminary or a local Bible school, all under government authority. After a successful examination, his application passes from the local official church pastor […]
National People’s Congress 2020
A Reading Roundup
[…] links to the other key original documents from the meetings. Xinhua, China’s official news agency has numerous articles and documents in a special section, including a flashy video, China’s Long March to Xiaokang (moderate prosperity). For outside analysis, I recommend the following resources: Video: Xi Addresses National People’s Congress (May 22, 2020, The New […]
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Welcome to the City
[…] for the first time in history more people on the planet will live in cities than live in the countryside. Like most events, there is both good news and bad news in this global happening. For cities, the bad news is that the large influx of people is overburdening the infrastructures, and they are […]
China Christian Daily’s Top 10 News Stories of 2020
What news stories were Chinese Christians paying attention to in 2020?
Top Christian News Stories in China in 2014 (# 6-10)
Last week we posted part one of a translated article “Top Ten Christian News Stories in China in 2014”, highlighting stories #1-5. This week, we are posting the translation of the second half of the original article (from The Christian Times), with items #6-10: The Almighty God cult murders, the rise of ISIS and […]
An Unchanged Endeavor in Changing Times
[…] “Hong Kong’s mental health hits new low in survey listing Covid-19 pandemic and social turmoil as likely factors”, South China Morning Post, Sept. 9, 2020 news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3100907/hong-kongs-mental-health-hits-new-low-survey">https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3100907/hong-kongs-mental-health-hits-new-low-survey. Wan-tai Victor Zheng, “Survey Findings on Views about Emigration from Hong Kong”, the Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies at CUHK, Oct 6, 2020. 麥åÂÂæ®·,“ 2019æÂÂæÂÂæ®æÂ¥ç¼ä½Âï¼ÂèÂÂæÂÂâ¼Âæ¸ä¸Âè·Âä¹Âæ”, […]
ZGBriefs Newsletter for June 14, 2012
[…] used to be, information that doesn’t suit Beijing’s larger purposes still gets withheld, while information that doesn’t quite suit its purposes is often polished until it does. Video: Trouble ahead? (June 8, 2012, The Economist)WITH China’s absence from the Shangri-La Dialogue and America’s increasing naval presence in the region, our correspondents discuss the state […]
National People’s Congress 2023
A Reading Roundup
There is no question that we are in a new era. To understand the recent National People’s Congress and National People’s Consultative Conference, read Joann Pittman’s roundup of news and analysis.