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Peoples of China
Understanding and Engaging with the Post-Eighties Generation
In China, the “post-eighties” denotes those who are were generally born during the 1980s. They are the earliest generation of those who became known in the West as the “Little Emperors” of China. Typically, they were raised in a family environment where all adults focused their attention on their only heir. R and J […]
Off We Go
A Book Review
[…] few years ago, I attended a training on child safety organized by the Child Safety and Protection Network (CSPN). In the training, I was alarmed by the number of child abuse cases involving Third Culture Kids (TCKs) on the mission field and the number of victims affected. To my surprise, those who abused the […]
Reading Tea Leaves from the 2021 National Religious Work Conference
[…] loving their religion”). It encompasses a number of activities that are formal, such as registration of a new congregation, and informal, such as calling pastors on the phone to check on them. The overall goal is to “actively guide religions to adapt to socialist society,” which means to follow the line set by the […]
3 Questions: The Transitions Workbook
[…] author to write a book or create a resource. Please share some of the story behind The Transition Workbook. Sometime around 1995–96 I began conducting debriefings via tele phone for English teachers in Asia returning to their countries of origin. Their organization was unable, because of the variety of teachers’ schedules, to gather returning teachers for […]
Peoples of China
China’s Migrant Children
[…] permanent urban residency have fueled the burgeoning urban population of school-aged rural youth who are born in the city or migrate there at a young age. Recent numbers from the China Children and Teenagers’ Fund estimate there are 20 million rural migrant children 14 years old or under in China, comprising 13% of the […]
How Can We Better Prepare People for the Field?
An Interview with Lauren Pinkston
[…] and job performance (Bhatti et al., 2013). E. It is unknown whether previous international experience can predict expatriate success, although many articles identify this variable in a number of studies. Claus et al. (2011) argued that previous job experience helps an individual to develop knowledge, which is vital for job performance at the domestic […]
Dangers, Pitfalls, Connection, and Hope During Transition
[…] transition, you are going to default to what God has made you good at. If you’re not careful, you’ll neglect the part of you that comes in number three. For me, I am strongest in doing, strong in thinking, and feelings are ranked a “three” for me. Of course I have feelings! But, in […]
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The Three-Self Patriotic Movement
Divergent Perspectives and Grassroots Realities
[…] both official churches and house churches. Not only is the Xi government attempting to forcibly implement religious policy by eradicating house churches, it is also constricting the number of public worship spaces in Three-Self churches, and even announcing efforts to transform the meaning and practices of traditional Protestant worship through the “Sinicization” campaign. The […]
Reflections on a US-based Chinese Language Journey (1)
[…] many terms that are either not frequently used, or are used within specific subject domains (science, technology, economics). Even after discounting specialized language, however, those astoundingly large numbers indicate the magnitude of the second language challenge. The magnitude of the problem, like seeing the true size of a mountain as you approach it, only […]
Reflections on a US-based Chinese Language Journey (2)
[…] is two-fold: Chinese characters do not provide a built-in pronunciation guide (although there are pronunciation “clues”); and It is a “sound-poor” language with a limited number of phonemes, with each tied to multiple characters/meanings. As a result, the relationship between the written and spoken language is unlike our western alphabetic languages. Consequently, the initial language […]