1. What Happens To Tea Leaves After They’ve Been Read?
(Community/Blogs - English)

Like many of you, I have spent the last couple weeks pouring over the newspaper reports of the National People’s Congress (NPC) meetings taking place in Beijing.  The final report of the annual meetings ...

2. China-Bashing Season
(Community/Blogs - English)

A few years back I wrote an article for this publication which I titled “Political Winds.”  Here’s how the piece opened: Springtime has just passed in Beijing, and we locals are thankful that another ...

3. Are You Ready?
(Community/Blogs - English)

Government leaders at the National People’s Congress in Beijing this week are starting to hint that they may let the value of the Chinese yuan rise again in the near future.   If/when that happens, the ...

4. Serving by Listening
(Community/Blogs - English)

On Sunday morning, November 1, several hundred members of the Beijing Shouwang Church gathered outside of the east gate of Haidian Park to worship. They did so because the day before they had vacated the ...

5. All Back Issues of Chinasource Journal
(Resources and Reviews/Resources and Reviews - 简体中文)

...  2008 Beijing Olympics (6.2, Summer ‘04)                                                           ...

6. Analyzing China
(Resources and Reviews/Reviews)

... orchestra in Beijing a week before the performance.  He learned the hard way just how popular live music has become in the last ten years.  Not only were tickets unavailable, they had been sold out for ...

7. China's Rapidly Changing Face
(Resources and Reviews/Reviews)

...  22860000 (`@````````` 266 263 5 110185200 110185200 Joyce Hodges lived and taught in Beijing from 1997-2002.  Since 2003 ...

8. What Happens To Tea Leaves After They’ve Been Read?
(Community/Blogs)

Like many of you, I have spent the last couple weeks pouring over the newspaper reports of the National People’s Congress (NPC) meetings taking place in Beijing.  The final report of the annual meetings ...

9. China-Bashing Season
(Community/Blogs)

A few years back I wrote an article for this publication which I titled “Political Winds.”  Here’s how the piece opened: Springtime has just passed in Beijing, and we locals are thankful that another ...

10. Are You Ready?
(Community/Blogs)

Government leaders at the National People’s Congress in Beijing this week are starting to hint that they may let the value of the Chinese yuan rise again in the near future.   If/when that happens, the ...

11. Symbols of the Chinese New Year
(Articles/Contemporary Culture and Society)

... his son, Jesus, where is the hope of peace?  Without Jesus' incarnation as a baby, we would have nothing to celebrate...it would be just another day in the year.    Joyce Hodges lived and taught in Beijing ...

12. A Citizen’s Plea for Forgiveness and Peace
(Articles/Contemporary Culture and Society)

... the effort, and an international academic forum will take place on October 18, 2010. I was told by my father that our ancestral family had resided in Beijing for more than 400 years.  The Aixinjieluo ...

13. Policy, Implementation, and Shifting Official Perceptions of the Church in China
(Articles/Politics)

... In both the run-up to last year’s Beijing Olympics and this year’s 60th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic, for example, a huge security net was cast over the city of Beijing.  Gatherings ...

14. Opening China: Karl F. A. Gutzlaff and Sino-Western
(Resources and Reviews/Reviews)

... career in the intricate matrix of Sino-Western relations, which, in his day as in ours, feature pressure upon the rulers in Beijing to unlock China’s doors to free trade and to the propagation of the Christian ...

15. The State Department’s 2009 Report on Religious Freedom Conditions in China
(Articles/Politics)

... churches and seminaries in comparison with the need (13 registered churches in Beijing), restrictions and prosecutions for unauthorized publications of Bibles and other regulatory issues.  The main positives ...

16. Neglect and Discrimination are Often the Fate of Migrant Children
(Articles/Urban Migrants)

... however; the bottom range in acceptable test scores for Beijing colleges is lower for Beijing’s formal residents (those with “Beijing hukou”) than it is for migrant children. Local education institutions ...

17. Update on Shouwang Church
(Community/Blogs)

As of Friday, November 13, 2009, there has yet to be a resolution to the question of where Shouwang Church can meet for their services.  While the authorities have made it clear that the church should ...

18. A Letter to the Congregation: Beijing Shouwang Church
(Community/Blogs)

... home. A Letter to the Congregation Beijing Shouwang Church November 2, 2009 Dear brothers and sisters, On October 30th 2009, Shouwang Church left the Huajie Plaza bidding farewell to a three-and-half-year ...

19. Serving by Listening
(Community/Blogs)

On Sunday morning, November 1, several hundred members of the Beijing Shouwang Church gathered outside of the east gate of Haidian Park to worship. They did so because the day before they had vacated the ...

20. Peony in Love
(Resources and Reviews/Reviews)

... pages; ISBN-10: 0812975227; ISBN-13: 978-0812975222. Reviewed by Joyce Hodges Joyce Hodges lived and taught in Beijing from 1997-2002.  Since 2003 she has lived and taught with her husband in Shaanxi. ...