Religious repression in China is no longer limited to demolition and closures as the regime has undertaken more subtle and ...

The Chinese government banned religion during the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and ’70s. And although Christianity and other religions bounced back in the 1980s and ’90s as restrictions were ...

A recent Pew Research Report measuring religion in China suggests that Christianity in the country has stagnated and is perhaps even in decline. But to borrow from Mark Twain, such suggestions seem ...

China passed a “Patriotic Education Law,” further consolidating the Chinese Communist Party’s control over education, including religious education, state-controlled media outlet Xinhua announced last ...

Christianity in China has stopped growing since 2010, according to an academic paper. "In 19 nationally representative surveys conducted since the early 2000s, the authors find no clear evidence that ...

The size of the Christian population in China has leveled off after the dramatic increases of the 1980s and 1990s, according to a Pew Research Center analysis released this week. This finding, ...

Christianity is staging a comeback in China this year—a comeback almost unbelievable to those who remember its plight there in 1927. The change is due entirely to the war with Japan and the part ...

Buddhism originated around the fifth century B.C.E. in India, but today, more Buddhists live in China than India. Han Buddhism, the dominant branch of Buddhism in China, has blended with local belief ...

Works to help readers parse the differences between cultural assimilation and political domestication. The word Sinicization usually means assimilation into Chinese culture, particularly the language, ...