Recording: Chinese Christian Posters in Early 20th Century China
I want to thank Daryl Ireland for delivering such an interesting and enlightening lecture. We were deeply blessed, and we hope that those who view this recording will be as well.
Arts and Entertainment
Explore art, film, music, literature, and other creative expressions in Chinese contexts, examining how they reflect cultural life and intersect with Christian faith.
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How Christian Posters Shaped Evangelism in China, 1919–1950
The Christian community contributed a third way to imagine national salvation, an equivalent force to the two major political parties, the Nationalists (KMT) and the Communists (CCP)…. Modernist and Fundamentalists… had a common political vision. They both embraced Chinese nationalism and portrayed Christ as the only power that could overcome imperialism.
Spreading the Gospel: Christian Posters in Early 20th Century China
Posters were the most common visual imagery of Christianity in China from 1919 to 1949. In his lecture, Dr. Daryl Ireland showcased some of his collection of nearly 700 posters from both Protestants and Catholics and discussed how they are changing the way we think about Chinese Christianity.
Summer Watch List
Six brilliant Chinese films for you to stream inside where it’s cool on hot summer days.
Ascension
What does it mean to pursue the “Chinese Dream”? And how can those of us who watch a film like Ascension move away from judgement and toward understanding and compassion for people struggling to achieve their dream?
Found
Found…is clear about its purpose—to tell the stories of three girls who are looking for the puzzle pieces of their identity.
Rickshaw Boy
Can poverty rob a man of his soul? Can betrayal by the things you love most break the constraints of the God-given conscience and society’s mores? Rickshaw Boy challenges the reader with these wrenching considerations. Though set in a bygone era in a culture that has since been transformed by globalization, Lao She speaks to us clearly—perhaps even more so than to his contemporaries.
Beethoven in Beijing
The remarkable story of the Philadelphia Orchestra's decades-long relationship with China is told in the documentary film Beethoven in Beijing. See it free until May 14, 2021.
3 Questions: Christian Architecture in China
Visiting churches and other religious architecture in China—via videos.
Leap
A biographical sports drama spanning decades, telling the inspiring story of China’s women's national volleyball team.
Nian
“If we let our fears hold us back, we will miss out on all that is beyond what we can imagine.”
76 Days
Director Wu Hao takes his audience to Wuhan to experience what it was like to be a doctor or nurse in a hospital there, or to be a patient in one of the wards.