At a recent gathering of experienced church leaders and trainers from across China, participants were asked to reflect upon how the contributions of outside organizations could best promote the development of indigenous leader development. Here are some of their thoughts.
The themes that emerged from the Leader Development Consultaton held in November 2008 included principles of indigenized leader developement, mutual learning to achieve indigenization, and the pursuit of indigenization in light of globalization.
China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power by Rob Gifford.
Reviewed by Kay Danielson
A new website for Migrant Resource Network.
The editor's point of view ...
Will the Boat Sink the Water?: The Life of China's Peasants by Chen Guidi and Wu Chuntao.
Reviewed by Brad Burgess
A personal look at two migrants in Beijing illustrates the character and strength of many ordinary people who live in difficult situations in a changing China.
Even after thirty years of economic reform, the majority of rural migrants in China's cities are still kept out of the formal labor market and professional tracks. Most of them pick up jobs in the informal sector. Such social inequality is likely to be perpetuated given the fact that their second generation is not provided with quality education. In China, education, often considered a way of changing one's life trajectory, now only reproduces social status and reinforces class boundaries.
China's migrant population presents both challenges and uncertainties.
Migrant workers make important contributions to China's cities but also pose tremendous challenges. A resident of Beijing explores how migrants fit in the capital and how Beijingers view them.
The world of China's "floating population" is vastly different from the world of its city dwellers.
Editor's Note: This editorial originally appeared in "The Family in China" (ChinaSource Quarterly, 2008 Fall).