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Peoples of China
Understanding and Engaging with the Post-Eighties Generation
<p>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 […]
Reading Tea Leaves from the 2021 National Religious Work Conference
What can we learn from the recent conference on religious work? A comparison with the 2018 conference helps tease out key points.
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 […]
Skills No Longer Needed
Re-entering a country that is “home” can be confusing. There is an unlearning—a releasing of some of the strategies that were only needed in a place with different rules and ways of living. We do not return as people who have stayed as we were before we left. There are things to shed; there […]
How Christian Posters Shaped Evangelism in China, 1919–1950
Visions of Salvation—A Book Review
[…] includes well-known names such as Peter Zarrow, Chloë Starr, Dana Robert, Zexi (Jesse) Sun, and James Qi He. The topics include women, childhood, evangelism, biblical interpretations, Roman Catholicism, and fine art. Each chapter includes carefully selected images and extensive footnotes citing the current literature. The monumental accomplishment of the entire project is attested to […]
Lead Article
The Three-Self Patriotic Movement
Divergent Perspectives and Grassroots Realities
[…] 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 TSPM in the early 1950s, clear signs indicated that the CCP was concerned about the political […]
Reverse Culture Shock
[…] We have become invisible Asians, and our white ethnicity is painfully isolating us from being connected to this part of our history. It’s a reminder of our loss that is ambiguous. It’s a reminder of how we were part of community there—but here we are starting again without being known as we have changed […]
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?
[…] since the late 1990s, under the late Bishop Ding Guangxun, the official churches began actively seeking to “reconstruct theology.” But as I discuss in my book, that campaign faced stiff resistance as young seminarians at the national seminary publicly opposed the campaign and were thrown out of the seminary as a consequence. Replace “Old […]
Chinese Christians in the New Era—Hope and Overcoming
[…] I’m brought back to stories I have read about foreign Christians who stayed in China during the Japanese invasion in the 1930s to protect their congregations and lost their lives as a result. Swells is right, of course, that a focus on the numbers of converts was always misplaced; the focus should always be […]
The 2023 Regulations for Religious Activity Site Registration
What the Party Doesn’t Want You to Know
Under Xi…steps toward liberalization have ended and even reversed…. Xi has removed term limits on his rule, called upon the media to serve the party, arrested outspoken lawyers and feminists, and renewed pressure on house and official churches; all sectors…have fallen under the CCP’s oversight and control.