Results for: guizhou
ZGBriefs | May 10, 2018
[…] more open society. A decade on, the quake was indeed an omen of change, but not in the way that many expected. Tilling the Data Farms of Guizhou (May 9, 2018, Sixth Tone) Vocational schools and corporate data centers have become a boon to the province’s young people and their impoverished families. Manila’s top […]
ZGBriefs | March 25, 2021
[…] tries to pressure an alliance member. Religion Police, Officials Raid Bible Study Group in China’s Guiyang (March 18, 2021, Radio Free Asia) Authorities in the southwestern Chinese province of Guizhou have raided a Protestant house church, detaining at least 10 people for questioning, RFA has learned. The raid came amid a Bible study group meeting held […]
ZGBriefs | January 16, 2025
[…] 10 (Pray For China: A Walk Through History) James F. Broumton (巴子成) and Charles H. Judd (祝名扬) became the first Protestant missionaries to take up residence in Guizhou when they moved to Guiyang in Jan. 1877. Judd soon returned to the China Inland Mission base in Hubei. However, Broumton remained in Guiyang after marrying […]
ZGBriefs | November 4, 2021
[…] William is candid about the difficulties mission agencies face and the inevitable failures that are bound to happen when we don’t give intentional thought to partnership. Books Guizhou: The Precious Province – Book Review (November 1, 2021, Global China Center) As in other books in the series, Hattaway traces the story of Christianity decade by […]
ZGBriefs | December 29, 2016
[…] China Change) The two descriptions I kept hearing about the two pastors of the Living Stone church were, firstly, that they were from the poorest parts of Guizhou (Guizhou itself is one of the poorest provinces in China), and secondly that they were both very young. Pastor Su Tianfu was born in 1975, while […]
ZGBriefs | December 28, 2023
[…] The 21-year-old ‘retiree’ who left China’s rat race for life in the rural mountains (December 26, 2023, CNN) Perched up against the edge of a cliff in China’s southwest Guizhou province is the bamboo shack 21-year-old “retiree” Liu Youwen built from scratch. Three years ago, Liu left his rural hometown Xiaxixiang, Guizhou, for the city of […]
January 10, 2013
[…] BBC) The BBC's Beijing bureau looks at the housing market in the Chinese capital – and how many residents' dreams exceed their reach. The Dead Children of Guizhou (January 7, 2013, Speigel Online) Since the discovery in mid-November of the bodies of five young boys in China's Guizhou province, the Chinese leadership has sought […]
Book Reviews
Adopting an Unreached People Group
[…] if they live in two different provinces (eg. the Cai people are listed under Yunnan Province as entry 11.54 with the population in Yunnan and again under Guizhou as entry 12.83 with the population in Guizhou). This arrangement carries an implicit message that is contrary to conventional cross-cultural mission—that the same people group requires […]
ZGBriefs | October 24, 2019
[…] by eating his way around the world, recently shared a video of one very long day in Chengdu filled with chili oil, peppercorns, and more chili oil. Guizhou makes Lonely Planet's Best in Travel 2020 list (October 23, 2019, China Daily) In recent years, with the rapid development of Guizhou's tourism industry, its mountainous landscapes and […]
Meet the Translators of the Chinese Bible
[…] (1852–1922), a British missionary for China Inland Mission (CIM), came to China in 1873. He launched his missionary work in the provinces of Anhui, Shanxi, Hunan, and Guizhou, conducting surveys and providing relief work. In 1896 he assumed leadership of the language school situated in Anqing, Anhui, helping newly arrived male missionaries learn Chinese. […]