Tag: Book Review
The Culture Tree
Culture Learning: A Book Review
“One of the beautiful things about symbolizing cultures with trees is that this picture captures the essence of variation and uniqueness among groups… The image of the tree allows you to first think about commonalities by acknowledging all trees have the same parts, and then to address differences by thinking of the many different types of trees.”
Chinese Christian History 101
Darkest Before the Dawn: A Book Review
Anyone looking for a brief overview of Chinese Christian history should check out Richard Cook’s Darkest Before the Dawn. In addition to orienting readers to the major events of Christian missions in China, there is an extensive bibliography for further reading.
Book Reviews
Exploring New Zealand’s Rich Christian Heritage
Bible & Treaty: Missionaries among the Māori—A New Perspective: A Book Review
Bible & Treaty tells the story of how the gospel first came to the Māori and details the rich Christian heritage of Aotearoa New Zealand. In addition, it is a story that resonates with the story of mission in China and elsewhere.
Book Review: Faith in the Wilderness
Words of Exhortation from the Chinese Church
In this collection of nine meditations from modern Chinese pastors, editors Hannah Nation and Simon Liu invite the reader to “hear something about walking with Jesus that we have been missing.”
Essential Information for Understanding
Eurasian Crossroads—A Book Review
Eurasian Crossroads—a detailed, but panoramic, picture of this ancient, but still very robust, Turkic civilization and its homeland.
Book Review: Schism
Seventh-Day Adventism in Post-Denominational China
Christie Chow… demonstrates that assorted religious and denominational commitments can also profoundly influence the development and success of Christianity in China.
Book Review: Children of the Massacre
The Extra-ordinary Story of the Stewart Family in Hong Kong and West China
It is indeed “extra-ordinary,” as the subtitle to the book states, that, rather than having an antipathy towards China and Chinese people, all six felt called to return and serve in China in various capacities over the years.
The Search for Home: Resonances between Heaven and Earth
A Reflective Review of Xiaoli Yang’s A Dialogue Between Haizi’s Poetry and the Gospel of Luke
In her book, Yang engages the complexities of Haizi’s personal journey and poetic influences side by side with the life and teachings of Jesus in four parts under the themes of “roots,” “vision,” “journey,” and “arrival.”
Book Reviews
The Factory, the Family, the Future
The Myth of Chinese Capitalism: A Book Review
Samuels summarizes each chapter of the book, highlighting the many difficult choices migrant workers must face. The author shows them in their full humanity, helping the reader relate to the struggles of migrant workers.
Invisible China
A Book Review
[A]s Invisible China so clearly points out, for China’s trajectory to continue upward, the country must address and overcome the significant and complex issues facing the unseen rural millions of people living beyond the cities.