ZGBriefs The Weeks Top Picks, May 15 Issue
Geographic and cultural divides and differences understanding them and bridging them were common themes this week.
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ZGBriefs The Weeks Top Picks, May 8 Issue
If there were a theme to the three articles that we have chosen this week, it would be information.
Ten China Documentaries
I'm a documentary lover; given a choice between watching a movie, a TV program (drama or comedy), or a documentary, I will almost always choose the documentary.
ZGBriefs The Weeks Top Picks, May 1 Issue
As far as most of our readers go, probably the biggest story out of China this week was the demolition of the Sanjiang Church in Wenzhou.
ZGBriefs The Weeks Top Picks, April 10 Issue
Schools, nostalgia, and explaining the unexplainable these are the subjects of our top picks in ZGBriefs this week.
A New Must-read for China Hands
Love her or hate her, Empress Dowager Cixi does not leave us with the option of just letting her drift off into historical obscurity. Jung Chang's (author of Wild Swans) recently published Express Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China is destined to become a must read for China hands.
ZGBriefs The Weeks Top Picks, April 3 Issue
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.
Salt and Light in China
Adding to my recent list of Ten Books on Christianity, I'd like to also commend the three volumes of Salt and Light: Lives of Faith that Shaped Modern China, by Carol Lee Hamrin and Stacey Bieler.
Praying for Kazakhstan
A house church in Beijing has a special time of prayer for Kazakhstan.
ZGBriefs The Weeks Top Picks, March 27 Issue
Two articles about religion, a missing jetliner, and eye-popping gifs of China's urbanization; these are our top picks this week.
ZGBriefs The Weeks Top Picks, March 20 Issue
Scrolling down through ZGBriefs this week provides another glimpse of the complexity of China today.
Why I Don’t Recommend “Safely Home”
A few years ago, I put together a China reading list that I titled "My Literary Journey to Being a Sinophile" for my personal blog in which I highlighted books that have shaped my understanding and love for China over the past thirty years. The book topics run the gamut from history to contemporary society to the condition of the church. The book Safely Home (2003) by Randy Alcorn is not on the list.