For many engaged in cross-cultural service (or preparing for it), language learning is often one of the most daunting tasks. Especially for those of us whose only experience is Spanish or French class in the American educational system, we are wholly unprepared, and most likely don’t even know where to begin.
An Exploration of Christian Theology by Dr. Don Thorsen has been translated into Chinese and is now available.
Mother's Day. A good time to celebrate mothers.
I’m always interested in new and fresh ways of framing history, and I loved this story of Beijing (and China itself) as told through the road. For Chatwin, it is a history that is ordered “not chronologically, but geographically.”
A three-generational story of a rural Sichuanese family.
A must read for anyone interested in the church in China, this book provides historical perspective for understanding the current situation and future possibilities.
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!
Cook reviews this recent volume about the first half of Timothy Richard’s career and evaluates the book’s content and approach.
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.
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The story of Olive and Theo Simpkin.
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.