Over recent generations, marriage expectations have changed. For young Christians in China, marriages are taking on new ethical norms that include challenges. Parental pressures in finding a spouse as well as in planning a wedding can create much tension. After marriage, child-bearing and rearing continue to generate challenges between the young couple and their parents. The one-child policy has exacerbated these difficulties. Christian couples are swimming against many secular tides in these areas.
Mary Li Ma
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July 11, 2016
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Scholarship
Historical influences on family structure and how this structure has collapsed in recent decades are reviewed. The author then recognizes that family order has been established by God and must be restored. This is essential for China’s transformation. The role the Chinese church should play in this restoration needs to be thought through.
Wei Zhou
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Scholarship
Two online resources highlighting Christian testimonies about marriage and family issues.
ChinaSource Team
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Scholarship
Traditionally, film festival pieces are known to push boundaries and be more artistically daring than your average blockbuster affair. But the space in which director Qiu Jiongjiong plays with his film Chi (癡) is one that even has the artistic community a bit stunned. The film, which has been alternately named Mr. Zhang Believes, has been described as a hybrid documentary—one that blends theatrical fiction and autobiography. Existing in relatively uncharted territory, hybrids bravely blur the lines of categorical boundaries.
Hannah Lau
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July 8, 2016
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Stories
In a recent Christianity Today article on the wave of laws hitting foreign NGOs globally, Morgan Lee refers specifically to China when she writes, “Nearly 20 percent of the world’s population could lose access to the ministry efforts of Western Christians next year.”
Brent Fulton
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July 6, 2016
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Ideas
The mainland site Gospel Times recently reported on the discovery of a stone monument commemorating the life of a Swedish missionary named Anna Karlsson.
ChinaSource Team
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July 5, 2016
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Stories
Last week the World Economic Forum posted a short video titled “Where are the Largest Chinese Populations Outside of China?” Spoiler: Indonesia tops the list.
Joann Pittman
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July 4, 2016
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Ideas
My first glimpse into the world of domestic abuse China-side came in 2005.
Amy B.
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July 1, 2016
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Stories
If you’re with a non-profit organization that has activities in China, the new law applies to you, regardless of whether you are actually located in China.
Brent Fulton
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June 29, 2016
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Ideas
The testimony of a victim of domestic abuse and her journey to healing.
ChinaSource Team
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June 28, 2016
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Stories
You may have heard that Chongqing is China’s largest city by population (approximately 30 million), but as is the case with many things in China, “nothing is as it seems.”
Joann Pittman
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June 27, 2016
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Resources
As urban churches in China face significant changes in the 21st century, will they effectively engage their own culture and reach out with the gospel cross-culturally?
Reuben Carter
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June 24, 2016
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Ideas