Chinese History

What We Can Learn from the Early Jesuits in China

What We Can Learn from the Early Jesuits in China

What We Can Learn from the Early Jesuits in China: Reflections on The Visitor: Andrew Palmeiro and the Jesuits in Asia, by Liam Matthew Brockey. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014.

Modern Protestant evangelical Christians who care about the growth of God’s kingdom in China will find much food for thought in the career of Andrew Palmeiro and the early Jesuits in China. (For a review of the book, go to www.globalchinacenter.org; for a short biography of Andrew Palmeiro, visit www.bdcconline.net.)

The Chinese Character

The Chinese Character

Does anything uniquely “Chinese” remain stable and steady in the midst of the vortex of shifting values and practices that we are now witnessing? If so, what characteristics provide a common identity among so many different people scattered around the world? Wherever they are found, Chinese people around the world tend to exhibit the following traits.