Tag: Women in China
Meet the Missionaries Who Went to China
ChinaSource Summer School Session 3
God works through the lives of individual believers to spread the gospel and fulfill the great commission. In this post, we have rounded up several posts that look at multiple important missionaries from the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Lead Article
Pentecost in China (1)
Origins
The author delves into the history of how Pentecostalism came to China in the late nineteenth century. He introduces us to early missionaries—including women—Chinese leaders, and revivals.
7 Women Who Braved a Chaotic China
Through the Valley of the Shadow: Australian Women in War-torn China
The women were among the bravest missionaries to serve in China… The authors describe…fending off bandits, experiencing bombing, walking miles and miles to get food, enduring flea bombs dropped on their city, hiding in the woods from violent mobs, and more.
How Christian Posters Shaped Evangelism in China, 1919–1950
Visions of Salvation—A Book Review
The Christian community contributed a third way to imagine national salvation, an equivalent force to the two major political parties, the Nationalists (KMT) and the Communists (CCP)…. Modernist and Fundamentalists… had a common political vision. They both embraced Chinese nationalism and portrayed Christ as the only power that could overcome imperialism.
The Vital Role of Chinese Women in Evangelism
[T]he story of Christianity in China cannot be told without acknowledging the female evangelists and pastors who built the Chinese church.
Supporting Article
“Kiwis” in the Middle Kingdom
New Zealanders Serving God’s Mission in China from 1877 to 1953 and Beyond
Yuan provides an extensive overview of early mission work in China done by New Zealanders. She acquaints us with mission agencies and some of the missionaries as she describes how the work progressed.
Christian Women and Modern China
A Book Review
Often the chronicling of China’s mission history features Protestant missionaries with brief mentions of Chinese co-workers. Readers familiar with this history can list numerous foreigners who contributed to the growth of China’s church. But they are probably not familiar with most of the women highlighted in this book.
Acknowledging and Managing the Tension
A Reader Responds to “Women and the Missio Dei in China”
Five tensions women face serving in the Missio Dei.
The Ministry of Women in the Chinese Church
A reader responds to the spring issue of CSQ with insightful observations and questions.
An Earlier CSQ Look at Women in China
From the 2002 summer issue of ChinaSource Quarterly.