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Chinese Church Voices

Advice for Staffing Sunday School

“Mrs. Yang,” a popular blogger, shares her thoughts on who should teach children's Sunday school

Peoples of China

Studying in America

Challenges, Differences and Outcomes

The author talks about his experiences as an international student from China who came to the U.S. to study in high school. He tells us of the challenges he faced and the sacrifices his parents made. He points out major differences between the two cultures and shares with us how the experience has changed him.

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“Kiwis” in the Middle Kingdom

New Zealanders Serving God’s Mission in China from 1877 to 1953 and Beyond

[…] is the Māori name of a native bird and is also the colloquial name for New Zealanders. The word “kiwi” perhaps also signals smallness and naivety. “ Middle Kingdom” is one of the common names for China. Without doubt, this self-appointed name contains a sense of Sinocentrism. The icon of “kiwi” and the notion […]

Blog Entries

From the Middle East to the Middle Kingdom (6)

From Warlords to Communists (1913–1949 and Beyond)

This article belongs to the series “From the Middle East to the Middle Kingdom”—which is drawn from the leading ethnographic course helping Christians better understand China’s Hui Muslims. If the Hui story ended with the fall of the Qing, we would be looking at a very different China. Hui and Han Chinese still don’t intermarry […]

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From the Middle East to the Middle Kingdom (3)

Mass Migration under the Khan (AD1271–1367)

This article belongs to the series “From the Middle East to the Middle Kingdom”—which is drawn from the leading ethnographic course helping Christians better understand China’s Hui Muslims. How did the Hui become China’s second largest and most widely dispersed minority? Why do they simultaneously act superior and inferior to the Han majority? We […]

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From the Middle East to the Middle Kingdom (Part 10)

The Present

Three Christians walk into Hui restaurants. They all introduce themselves as disciples of Isa (尔撒的门徒, Ersa de mentu, a contextualized alternative to the term “Christian”). The first is in Beijing. The Christian is there to meet a Hui university student, but she changes the subject away from religion at every opportunity. She is secularized and […]

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From the Middle East to the Middle Kingdom (2)

Hui Origins (AD 651–1270)

This is the second part in the series “From the Middle East to the Middle Kingdom”—which is drawn from the leading ethnographic course helping Christians better understand China’s Hui Muslims. Part 1 provided a series overview. We will now summarize the formation of the Hui as a people over time. The course presents Hui […]

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From the Middle East to the Middle Kingdom (4)

Forced Integration (AD 1368–1644)

This article belongs to the series “From the Middle East to the Middle Kingdom”—which is drawn from the leading ethnographic course helping Christians better understand China’s Hui Muslims. Why do Hui and other predominantly Muslim minzu (民族, people groups) practice endogamy? If it is to prevent religious syncretism, it doesn’t appear to have worked. […]

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From the Middle East to the Middle Kingdom (5)

Hui Uprisings (AD 1645–1912)

This article belongs to the series “From the Middle East to the Middle Kingdom”—which is drawn from the leading ethnographic course helping Christians better understand China’s Hui Muslims. When I was a baby, whenever I wouldn’t stop crying, my mother would say to me sternly, ‘Don’t cry anymore! If the Hezhou Muslims hear you, they’ll […]

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From the Middle East to the Middle Kingdom (7)

Hui and the Cultural Revolution

This article discusses the Cultural Revolution (1966–76) and key events in the decade leading up to it. It belongs to the series “From the Middle East to the Middle Kingdom”—which is drawn from the leading ethnographic course helping Christians better understand China’s Hui Muslims. Why are the Hui so anxious, even paranoid, about halal food? […]