China’s Changing Population
In any attempt to analyze China's future, the country's demographics are part of the picture.
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China in Transition
Based on papers presented at the China 2020: Future Scenarios conference, the author identifies four scenarios and some key signposts that may indicate the direction China is heading in the future.
China in 2020
Considering the changes that are sweeping though China, what will China look like in 2020? How are these changes affecting the people of China?
Greater China’s Great Transformation
What is ahead for China in the coming years? What can we glean from China's past that helps us understand what may be ahead for China and for the church in China?
The Human Side of China’s Staggering Transformation
Oracle Bones: A Journey between China's Past and Present by Peter Hessler.
Reviewed by Chan-Kei Thong
Twice Forgotten
Editor's Note: This editorial originally appeared in "Children at Risk" (CS Quarterly, 2006 Summer).
When Can I Go Home?
Mid-January in Zhengzhou, the temperature dipped to -7C after a snowstorm. Chuan, a 13 year-old boy from the far west province of Gansu, was rummaging through a trash bin in a corner inside the Zhengzhou train station. His face was covered in soot; he was wearing an ill-fitted, filthy cotton jacket, lightweight trousers and a pair of tattered tennis shoes. The previous night, he had stowed away on a coal car headed for Zhengzhou. Cold and starving, he searched frantically for anything edible. Alone in a strange city, without money and not knowing a soul, Chuan wondered aimlessly.
China’s Children
God is on the move. Could this tiny article change the lives of many? Could it do more than inform and challenge? I think so. Those of you reading this could be part of a journey, led by the Holy Spirit, that commenced about a year ago. Intrigued? Read more.
Children, AIDS, and the Church
Children in China are being affected by HIV/AIDS. Their numbers are increasing and the effects are devastating. What is being done to help these children?
Chinese Children at Risk
Children at risk in China include orphans and disabled children. Services and support for these children are increasing. However, another wave of children at risk is sweeping across China with needs that also must be addressed. These trends are identified along with what is needed to care for the children and what is being done.
Children: At the Heart of Mission
Children—the Great Omission? by Dan Brewster and Patrick McDonald.
Reviewed by Ian A.
His Hands Reaching Out to Those Affected by Disability in China
Stories of the lives of real people affected by disabilities show the scope of the challenges they face and the need for transformation in the services and resouces available to them and in the attitudes of the people in their communities.