The Uniqueness of the Chinese Mission Movement—Past, Present, and Future

2021 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-70
Author(s):  
Mary Ho ◽  
Rudolf Mak
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
The United States ◽  
Chinese Diaspora ◽  
Overseas Chinese ◽  
Future Outlook ◽  
The World ◽  
Mission Movement ◽  
Compare And Contrast

Using the World Christian Encyclopedia, 3rd edition ( WCE-3) as the springboard, this article explores the uniqueness of the Chinese missions movement from China, not including the overseas Chinese diaspora or Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore. First, we provide an overview, context, and backdrop of the Chinese missions movement. Second, we compare and contrast China’s missions sending with that of (1) the United States/United Kingdom and (2) Brazil. We then highlight the unique characteristics of the Chinese missions movement and conclude with a future outlook.

‘Every day a new shop pops up’ – South Africa's ‘New’ Chinese Diaspora and the Multilingual Transformation of Rural Towns

English Today ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Deumert ◽  
Nkululeko Mabandla
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
South Africa ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
The United States ◽  
Chinese Diaspora ◽  
Chinese Community ◽  
The World ◽  
Trade Partners ◽  
Diasporic Communities

In this paper we will provide a preliminary overview of the Chinese diaspora in South Africa, with particular focus on non-metropolitan, rural contexts.The migrations of the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries have produced a complex array of Chinese communities around the world. While we know a fair amount about the Chinese diasporas in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and also diasporic communities within Asia, Africa's Chinese community remains a vastly understudied aspect of this larger Chinese diaspora (Ma & Cartier, 2003). Yet there have been long-standing ties between Africa and China, going back to the fifteenth century, and presently China is one of Africa's biggest trade partners and investors (Rotberg, 2008).

teaching and using english in hong kong, china, and the world

English Today ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 61-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
tom mcarthur
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
European Union ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
The United States ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The World

there are, as it were, three levels in the title of the discussion, each going further ‘out’ from hong kong, although the direction and perspective could as easily have been reversed, moving ‘inwards’ from the world to china to hong kong, one of history's most successful social, cultural, political, and economic anomalies. there could equally easily have been four levels: hong kong, china, asia, and the world, a framework that would even then have been simpler than, say, ‘london, england, the united kingdom, the european union, europe at large, and the world’, but much the same as ‘lagos, nigeria, africa, and the world’ or ‘los angeles, california, the united states, and the world’.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Elaine Howard Ecklund ◽  
David R. Johnson ◽  
Brandon Vaidyanathan ◽  
Kirstin R. W. Matthews ◽  
Steven W. Lewis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
The United States ◽  
Science And Religion ◽  
National Context ◽  
Scholarly Work ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The World ◽  
Research Findings

There has been much scholarly work on the interface between science and religion in the United States and the United Kingdom, but little has been done to compare these to other countries and regions around the world. By studying what scientists think about religion in eight national and regional contexts—the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Turkey, India, Hong Kong, and Taiwan—the researchers provide a more global and nuanced view of science and religion around the world. The chapter previews the methodological scope of the research, findings from each national context, and the main claims of the book.

scholarly journals Introduction: The Global Riot

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-110
Author(s):  
Maura Brighenti ◽  
Lucía Cavallero ◽  
Niccolò Cuppini ◽  
Alejo Stark
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
New Age ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Past ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Conceptual Clarity ◽  
The World

AbstractThe past few years have seen a number of “riots” – in Mexico City, Hong Kong, Chile, Ecuador, the United States, Argentina, France, the United Kingdom, and elsewhere. What do they have in common with one another and with other popular upheavals in history? How do they differ? What do they represent as sites of protest, resistance and rebellion? This forum explores the meaning of such riots through the meaning of the term itself, focusing mainly but not exclusively on the Global South, in theory and in the words and actions of rioters and the authorities who act to suppress them. If it is true the world has entered a “new age of riots,” citizens and scholars must begin to reach some conceptual clarity of what a global riot is, and seeks to become.

Life Assurance Business in Australasia

1892 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 219-235
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Life Assurance ◽  
The World

I shall, in the following remarks, mainly confine myself to some considerations connected with the rise and the development of life assurance business in Australasia—a development which, considering the limited population of these colonies, is probably quite as phenomenal as that which has attended its progress in the United States of America with their teeming millions. To such an extent, in fact, has this been the case, that in no part of the world, so far as I am aware, has the amount assured per head of the population reached so high a figure as in Australasia. The figures are approximately as follows: Australasia, £19; Canada, £9; United Kingdom, £12; United States, £10.

E-Readiness and Its Assessment

2010 ◽  
pp. 77-86
Author(s):  
Stephen M. Mutula
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
The United States ◽  
Digital Economy ◽  
Business Value ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
The World

The level of e-readiness of the digital economy is expected to vary across different jurisdictions. The e-readiness ranking of nations, which has been a regular undertaking by various agencies since 2000, demonstrates that the world is, indeed, moving steadily into a new digital era, and that by extension, businesses are increasingly operating in the digital economy. The 2008 e-readiness ranking of nations and similar previous rankings suggest that collectively, the world is steadily moving up the e-readiness charts; for example, average e-readiness rose by 0.15 to 6.39 in the 2008 rankings, up from 6.24 in the previous year, with the United States being the 2008 global ereadiness leader (with 8.95), followed closely by Hong Kong, which advanced up by two places (The EIU/IBM Business Institute for Business Value, 2008).

Chapter II. The World Economy

1991 ◽  
Vol 137 ◽  
pp. 24-44
Author(s):  
Andrew Gurney ◽  
Ray Barrell
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Economic Performance ◽  
Growth Rates ◽  
World Economy ◽  
The United States ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The World

In the course of the last 2 years economic performance in the major 7 economies has become less synchronised. In 1988 GNP grew by more than 3.5 per cent in all seven economies, with growth rates either at or close to cyclical highs. However for 1991 we expect negative GNP growth for Canada and the United Kingdom, negligible growth in the United States, growth of around 1.5 per cent in France and Italy, and of over 3 per cent in Germany and Japan. Table 1 shows that GNP growth in the major 7 economies is expected to slow to 1.2 per cent in 1991. Chart 1 highlights the different responses among the major 4 economies.

Allied High Commission for Austria

1951 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 226-226
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
The United States ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Marshall Plan ◽  
Cost Of Living ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The World ◽  
World Level

On September 26, 1950, the Austrian cabinet voted to permit the country's cost of living to rise to an approximation of the world level, and to make a compensating increase of ten to fourteen percent in wage levels. Three days later the United States representative (Keyes) charged, with the support of the French and United Kingdom commissioners (Bethouart and Caccia), that the resulting riots in Vienna had been inspired by the Soviet Union which had a) transported rioters in trucks about Vienna, b) refused to permit Viennese police in the Soviet sector to be used to quell the rioting, c) prevented police from removing workers of a Soviet controlled plant from railway yards which they had occupied. These charges were denied by the Soviet commissioner (Tsinev) as slanderous allegations of the western representatives whose countries had been responsible for the riots because of the deterioration of living conditions in Austria as the result of the Marshall Plan.

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