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Open Letter from the Early Rain Covenant Church Regarding Pastor Wang Yi’s Health and Family Visits
October 5, 2026 To all fellow members sharing in the redemptive grace of Christ within the Kingdom, and to friends from all walks of life who care about Pastor Wang Yi: We greet you in Christ! Recently, information regarding the health status of Pastor Wang Yi has been circulating online, and like all of you, we are deeply concerned. In terms of faith, we trust in God’s sovereign providence over all things. In terms of human responsibility, given the prolonged lack of normal family visits and communications and their inability to obtain timely information regarding Pastor Wang Yi’s health, we cannot afford to take lightly any information concerning his physical health and safety. In December 2019, Pastor Wang Yi was sentenced to nine years in […]
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  • On Doing Small Things Towards Change – A Book Review

    On Doing Small Things Towards Change – A Book Review

    Andréa Worden, January 31, 2026 Xu Zhiyong (许志永),  美好中国 (published in Chinese by Bouden House, NY, 2025).[1] English translations of the 24 essays comprising A Beautiful China are available on the website of China Change. Anthony J. Spires, Everyday Democracy: Civil Society, Youth, and the Struggle Against Authoritarian Culture in China (Columbia University Press, 2024). In Yaxue Cao’s introduction to …
  • ‘Socialist Rule of Law with Chinese Characteristics’: Establishment, Destruction, Reconstruction, Reform, and Reversal

    ‘Socialist Rule of Law with Chinese Characteristics’: Establishment, Destruction, Reconstruction, Reform, and Reversal

    Li Fangping, August 21, 2025 It’s been seven decades since the promulgation of Communist China’s first Constitution in 1954. To evaluate the journey of its rule of law, the successes and failures, I’m going to divide my analysis into four periods. I. The CCP’s founding leaders never meant to honor PRC’s first Constitution The 1954 Constitution of the People’s Republic of …
  • 1,296 Days in Limbo: The Trial of Xie Yang and the Eleven Notices That Delayed It for Thirty-Two Months By Way of Punishment

    1,296 Days in Limbo: The Trial of Xie Yang and the Eleven Notices That Delayed It for Thirty-Two Months By Way of Punishment

    Yaxue Cao, July 29, 2025 I. At 10 a.m. Beijing time on July 30, 2025, after 1,296 days in detention, lawyer Xie Yang (谢阳) is  finally standing trial at the Changsha Intermediate People’s Court. He is charged with “inciting subversion of state power.” This is the second time Xie Yang has been imprisoned since the internationally known “709 Crackdown” on …
  • A Decade On — It’s Time to Stop

    A Decade On — It’s Time to Stop

    Chen Guiqiu, ex-wife of Xie Yang, July 28, 2025 Human rights lawyer Xie Yang (谢阳) was arrested in January 2022, shortly after displaying a banner in support of an elementary school teacher in his province who had been arbitrarily detained in a mental hospital for online expression. As of today, he has been held for 1,295 days without trial. His …
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  • A Christian Story From the Mountains of Guizhou, Part Three – ‘My Burden Is in Guizhou’

    A Christian Story From the Mountains of Guizhou, Part Three – ‘My Burden Is in Guizhou’

    Yaxue Cao, May 30, 2026 (Continued from Part One: The Forefathers and Part Two: An Evangelist at 16) ‘My burden is in Guizhou’ When Yang Hua left home as a youth of 16, little did he know he was part of a vast undercurrent movement that would deeply influence Chinese society in the years to come. In the fourth year …
  • A Christian Story From the Mountains of Guizhou, Part Two: An Evangelist at 16

    A Christian Story From the Mountains of Guizhou, Part Two: An Evangelist at 16

    Yaxue Cao, May 5, 2026 (Continued from Part One) Clandestine Bible training Faith was for Yang Hua a habit before it was a conviction. Like other Christian families with small children, he was carried to Sunday worship in a basket on his parents’ backs when he was little; when he was old enough, he walked on foot. He learned hymns …
  • A Christian Story From the Mountains of Guizhou, Part One –  The Forefathers

    A Christian Story From the Mountains of Guizhou, Part One –  The Forefathers

    Yaxue Cao, April 26, 2026 Introduction If we are to take stock of the Christian experience in China, the story of Pastor Yang Hua (仰华) may provide a good example. A third-generation Christian, the history of his family’s faith spans ninety years and can be traced back to the work of the China Inland Mission started by Hudson Taylor, one …
  • A Home in God: The Story of Detained Pastor Jin Mingri and China’s City Churches, Part Two

    A Home in God: The Story of Detained Pastor Jin Mingri and China’s City Churches, Part Two

    Yaxue Cao, November 4, 2025 (Continued from Part One) The Birth of Zion Church: In the Open, Not Underground In early 2007, Pastor Jin Mingri, together with his wife and three children, returned to Beijing. By then, China had already undergone over a decade of rapid economic development. From the street level to its skyline, Beijing — rebuilt by cheap …
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