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ZGBriefs | January 11, 2018
[…] new 'Silk Road' cannot be one-way, France's Macron says (January 8, 2018, Reuters) Macron began his first state visit to China with a stop in Xian, an eastern departure point of the ancient Silk Road, hoping to relaunch EU-China relations often strained by Beijing’s restrictions on foreign investment and trade. Photos: A New Silk […]
ZGBriefs | June 25, 2015
[…] so-called "golden rules" of doing any kind of business in China. In pictures: 3D art in China's rice paddy fields (June 24, 2015, BBC) Farmers in the north- eastern Liaoning province, made use of different colours and varieties of rice saplings in order to mimic the 3D effect. The fields are housed as part of […]
June 13, 2013
[…] (June 8, 2013, NPR) Police in China said Saturday that a suicidal man was responsible for a fire that swept through a commuter bus in the country's eastern coastal city of Xiamen, killing 47 people including the arsonist and injuring dozens more. Authorities say 59-year-old Chen Shuizong left a suicide note at his home […]
ZGBriefs | July 30, 2015
[…] protest 'evil' Communist campaign to tear down crosses (July 27, 2015, The Guardian) Christian leaders – including an 89-year-old bishop – have taken to the streets of eastern China to protest against an “evil” campaign to remove crosses that many see as a coordinated Communist party attack on their faith. Activists say more than […]
ZGBriefs | April 27, 2017
[…] the country's second aircraft carrier, after the Liaoning, and the first to be made domestically. The as-yet unnamed ship was transferred into the water in the north- eastern port of Dalian, state media said. It will reportedly be operational by 2020. China jails American businesswoman for spying (April 26, 2017, CNN) A Chinese court […]
August 8, 2014
[…] Metal dust 'behind deadly China blast' (August 4, 2014, BBC) A metal dust explosion was probably to blame for the blast that tore through a plant in eastern China on Saturday, killing dozens, officials say. State media said the death toll from Saturday's explosion had risen to 75. More than 180 other people were […]
ZGBriefs | July 13, 2017
[…] poaching and trafficking. Why Chinese towns are so keen to lay claim to poets, philosophers and emperors (July 12, 2017, South China Morning Post) Two counties in eastern China have been feuding over which has the right to call itself the home town of one of the nation’s early emperors. The case is the […]
Interview with a Reformed Church Pastor (1)
[…] been forced by the problems brought on by their own growth process and have no choice but to reassess and transform. For example, it is easy for Eastern Lightning to ransack a traditional church, or even to destroy an entire church. Because the traditional church is only concerned about suffering and does not value theology, […]
A Xinjiang Pastor on How to Discern True and False Gods
[…] an internet post by a pastor from Xinjiang Autonomous Region on how to discern true and false gods. The context of the article is resurgence of the Eastern Lightning cult last winter. The pastor reminds believers to focus on the attributes of God when discerning false teachings from true teachings. He then spells out five […]
Supporting Article
Synthesizing East and West
Wu Jingxiong’s Lasting Contribution to Chinese Christianity
[…] to turn it into wine.13 Second, Wu saw great affinities between Chinese and Christian mystics, writing, “It seems that all mystics, whether Christian or pagan, Western or Eastern, talk the same language and sing the same tune. For one thing, they prefer the passive way to the active.”14 In one of his favorite comparisons, […]