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Peoples of China

China’s Migrant Children

[…] the local municipal level. Consequently, implementation varies greatly from city to city. In cities where implementation is strict, public schools require parents to submit formal documentsincluding ID cards, temporary living certificates and employment certificates. Rural migrant parents, however, are undocumented laborers who often have trouble providing these documents. Moreover, students in unlicensed migrant schools […]

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Skills No Longer Needed

[…] Learning language to the degree I can listen to conversations around me and have a bit of a sense of who is sitting in the same subway carriage. It’s rare to find a group of people speaking the language we learned in Asia in our new community here, and to listen in without divulging […]

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The Three-Self Patriotic Movement

Divergent Perspectives and Grassroots Realities

[…] affairs authorities are some of the lowest paid and hence least-motivated personnel in the party-state hierarchy. With low pay and morale, these officials have little incentive to carefully study religious policies that require making distinctions between traditional and cultish groups. Furthermore, they quickly find that strict policy enforcement can backfire because recalcitrant believers can […]

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The 2023 Regulations for Religious Activity Site Registration

What the Party Doesn’t Want You to Know

[…] Jinping was selected to be China’s top leader in 2012, the People’s Republic of China has entered the End of Era, as a recent book by scholar Carl Minzner put it.4 Students of Chinese politics and society have characterized the period from the late 1970s or early 1980s until today as the Reform Era, […]

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Chinese Christians in the New Era—Hope and Overcoming

[…] opposition. Nationwide protests against it were sparked by the economic toll of the shutdowns and an avoidable tragedy in Xinjiang province. Rather than being undone in a careful way, as many policies are implemented piecemeal then spread nationwide, Xi’s government abruptly imposed the policy reversal without consultation with local levels, leaving Chinese healthcare workers […]

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A Look Back to Look Forward

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Hope for HIV/AIDS in China

[…] explained. “There was so much fear and stigma.” The Christians were no different from anyone else, but now that is all changed. It is the believers who care for the dying, show compassion and give good information, he explained. The village people trust them implicitly. My own experience with Christian AIDS programs has been […]

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How China’s Religious Affairs Bureaucracy Works

[…] way to grasp how the religious affairs bureaucracy works is to view it historically, which is especially useful as the structure today is a holdover from the 1950s. When the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) came to power, it organized all non-communists who wished to cooperateor collaborateinto a “united front,” by which allies could be […]

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Official Protestant Groups Plan Next Five Years of Sinicization

What Does the TSPM/CCC 5-Year Plan Tell Us about the Direction of Official Protestantism?

[…] loyalty to the Chinese Communist Party and comparatively weaker emphasis on traditional Christian ideas. Five-year TSPM/CCC plans are not new. In fact, since its formation in the 1950s, the TSPM—like all other societal organizations under Chinese Communist Party (or CCP) leadership—was required to formulate plans in step with the five-year plans of the CCP. […]

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ZGBriefs | June 15, 2023

Marriages in China drop to record low despite government push (June 13, 2023, The Guardian) The number of marriages in China last year dropped to 6.83 million, the lowest since records began in 1986. Data released by the Ministry of Civil Affairs showed the number of couples tying the knot in 2022 fell by […]