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Our favorite stories this week cover the gamut searching for Hui identity in Taiwan; the life of "Taobao Girls" in Beijing; the June 4 crack-down in Chengdu; and a trailer for an upcoming documentary about a Tibetan woman living in Beijing. China is nothing, if not complex!
On April 4, the western press began reporting on a church in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province that was surrounded by thousands of parishioners who were blocking a crew sent to demolish the church. As reported, local officials had initially ordered that the cross be removed from the church, and later said the church was built illegally and had ordered its destruction. The story was a hot topic both inside and outside of China, and has come to be known as The Sanjiang Church Incident.
Schools, nostalgia, and explaining the unexplainable these are the subjects of our top picks in ZGBriefs this week.
Christians from a church in Shanghai minister to leukemia patients.
Tomorrow (April 5) is "Tomb-Sweeping Day," a festival to honor the ancestors by tending their graves. There were two articles about this that caught our attention this week.
A house church in Beijing has a special time of prayer for Kazakhstan.
Two articles about religion, a missing jetliner, and eye-popping gifs of China's urbanization; these are our top picks this week.
A Chinese Christian blogger offers ten reasons for being a Christian.
Scrolling down through ZGBriefs this week provides another glimpse of the complexity of China today.
An annotated bibliography for further reading on this topic.
A Chinese Christian blogger explores the similarities and differences between the Chinese concept of filial piety and the Biblical teaching to honor one's parents.
Meetings (and things that happened alongside those meetings) and Chinese people in the US caught our interest this week.