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
Does the Christian church require a sympathetic national government to thrive?
Brent Fulton
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June 22, 2016
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Ideas
In March China introduced its first-ever comprehensive domestic violence law. While celebrated as an important step toward the protection of women and children (and, occasionally men experiencing abuse) the law also raises a number of questions within the Christian community. Here lawyer and Christ-follower Cheng Pangzhi wrestles through these issues, ultimately offering hope for reconciliation of families and a call to make use of the new law in order to protect victims of violence.
ChinaSource Team
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June 21, 2016
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Ideas
A few years back I was talking with a Chinese scholar friend of mine about Islam in China. In what has to be one of the clearest examples of pragmatic religiosity I’ve encountered, he told me, “Islam has no future here because Han Chinese will never give up eating pork.”
Joann Pittman
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June 20, 2016
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Ideas