Mission through Diaspora

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Jeanne Wu was born and raised in Taiwan. She received her BS and MS at National Central University, Taiwan, an MA at Western Seminary in Oregon and a PhD at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Illinois. She has worked as an engineer in Taiwan, a mission worker in mainland China and Germany, and a mission researcher and book translator in the USA. As a diaspora Chinese, she is particularly interested in global diaspora and how it impacts the global Christian outreach today. Jeanne and her husband and will continue their work among Arab refugees/diaspora in the Middle East.

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The Chinese diaspora is well known for transnational economic activity, but less so for the impact of the diasporic Chinese church in the USA and elsewhere in the world. Surveying 652 US Chinese churches about their mission activities, along with interviews of a sub-set of respondents, Dr Wu provides analysis and explanation of mission activities using diaspora theories. The trend for Chinese diaspora church mission to take a "Chinese first" approach capitalizes on shared language, culture and transnational networks to advance the gospel. In this era of globalization, diaspora mission has never been so prescient. With special emphasis on the context of short-term missions, this book presents fascinating insight to a significant element of the ministry of the global church. This case of the Chinese church in the USA has many applications in the consideration of global missions outside of the Chinese diaspora.