Dreams and Disillusionment
If you’ve lived in China (Shanghai, particularly), you’ll love Shanghai Free Taxi. If you’re making plans to go to China, it’s a great introduction. If neither, read it anyway. You'll smile and learn stuff along the way!
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Encountering China
Cook reviews this recent volume about the first half of Timothy Richard’s career and evaluates the book’s content and approach.
The Fading Vision of a Christian China
A book providing a valuable inside view of an era of unprecedented openness for Christianity in China and a sober historical assessment of why that era could not last.
Summer Reading for 2020
Here's our list. What are you reading?
A Foot Wide on the Edge of Nowhere
The story of Olive and Theo Simpkin.
Stories of Christian Women in China
This is not a book to be read in one sitting, however gripping the various accounts! Like so many of the books about China that recount the lives of ordinary people, and women in particular, it is not easy reading.
Books for Wuhan
Boxes of Christian books sent to Wuhan and Hubei province for Christmas continue to make an impact during the coronavirus outbreak.
5 Sermons from China
An opportunity to “step away from delivering thoughts about the Chinese house church and instead offer the English-speaking world a chance to sit directly at the feet of our Chinese brothers and sisters.”
Bridging the Divide in Asian American Churches
"In the past three decades . . . [n]ew and healthy models of overseas Chinese churches and ministries have emerged. Yet the same questions remain. For every generation that has worked through the generational and cultural issues, another has just arrived, or is on the way." This book provides a means to revisit the these reoccurring questions in a new light.
In Drawing Plain People, He Draws the Face of God
Using a conversation format, the life experiences and oil painting of Yang Feiyun, head of the Chinese Academy of Oil Painting, are explored.
From Kuan Yin to Chairman Mao
A survey of more than 60 figures and creatures from Chinese mythical, historical, and religious sources.
Honor and Shame in Paul’s Message and Mission
Learning to read the book of Romans with a broader cultural lens.