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View From the Wall

When Can I Go Home?

Caring for China's Homeless Children

<p>Mid-January in Zhengzhou, the temperature dipped to -7C after a snowstorm. Chuan, a 13 year-old boy from the far west province of Gansu, was rummaging through a trash bin in a corner inside the Zhengzhou train station. His face was covered in soot; he was wearing an ill-fitted, filthy cotton jacket, lightweight trousers and […]

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China’s Pentecostal Churches

Changing Times, New Approaches

[…] in terms of its size, social influence, outreach ministries, and even its global vision. The spiritual passion blazing for decades has started to cool down with the number of Christians attending church dropping. However, in the midst of all of this, the persecution also serves to sift the church, to purify it, and to […]

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Policy, Implementation, and Shifting Official Perceptions of the Church in China

The Chinese Communist Party’s basic stance toward religion has not changed since it was spelled out in Document number 19 in 1982. Commonly referred to as the “three designates” formula, this policy restricts religious activities to approved locations, requires that they be conducted by approved clergy and limits their scope to the geographic sphere […]

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March 5, 2015

[…] Cities on Weak Demand (August 17, 2014, Bloomberg) China's new-home prices fell in July in almost all cities that the government tracks as tight mortgage lending deterred buyers even as local governments eased property curbs. Prices fell in 64 of the 70 cities last month from June, the National Bureau of Statistics said today, […]

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ZGBriefs | May 11, 2017

[…] of friends from their village for a Bible study.  It’s not a house church, but it is what here is called a “House fellowship” If money can't buy happiness, many Chinese now seek spiritual meaning (May 5, 2017, PRI) Over the past couple of decades, the number of Chinese who call themselves spiritual adherents has […]

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Online Meeting Platforms

[…] determine which platform is most suitable. Vhall This platform allows for up to 1000 participants, with three speakers for a per-event fee. Charges are based on the number of participants and the length of time. There is also a yearly contract with unlimited participants. The English interface is “not ideal.” Vzan This platform allows […]

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January 30, 2014

[…] mainland Chinese crossed the border to the former British colony last year. That is up 16.7 percent from the previous year, and nearly ten times the 2001 number. Chinas Gilded Tuhao (January 24, 2014, World of Chinese) If you are still banging on about the xiaozi (, petty bourgeoisie), Chinas young middle class obsessed […]

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October 11, 2012

[…] to roughly nine million people from the mostly Muslim Uighur ethnic minority who have long been angered by what many see as government oppression. The China Southern Airlines flight CZ680 had originally taken off from Istanbul in Turkey and landed in Xinjiang’s provincial capital, Urumqi. It was en route for Beijing when the alert […]

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Bibles in China

A Question of Availability

[…] country. Although quite common, this was never legal and in the spring of 2018, the Chinese government ordered the practice to cease. The advent of the smart phone has also impacted the availability and distribution of the Bible in China. Consider the numbers. As of January 2018, the Chinese Internet Network Information Center reported […]

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ZGBriefs Newsletter for May 10, 2012

[…] a Chinese state-controlled company. Just days after high-level US-China economic talks in Beijing, the Federal Reserve approved an application from Industrial and Commercial Bank of China to buy a majority stake in the US subsidiary of Bank of East Asia. The transaction will make ICBC the first Chinese state-controlled bank to acquire retail bank […]