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Tiger Mothers and Mormon Mommies
Mormon Life says: I need to read this book.
Okay, let’s crack this blog open with some good old fashioned controversy. And who better to swarm around in a buzz of parental indignation than Amy Chua? You see, I spent the first part of this...
Youth from hong Kong and U.S. meet over video conferencing
Jo da Rosa from the West Columbia South Carolina stake was traveling for business in Hong Kong, China, in October 2010. With a desire to attend Church during his trip, he decided to attend the ward across the street from the Hong Kong China Temple.After sacrament meeting, a man from the Hong Kong...
Church launches new Hong Kong newsroom website
Only months after the launch of the Church’s Mexico Newsroom website, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has launched the Hong Kong Newsroom website: mormonnewsroom.hk.
LDS D.C. student wins Chinese speech contest
Ben Omer, an LDS student attending Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., recently won the highest award in the toughest division of a Chinese speech contest, the Jiangsu Cup Speech Contest. He credits his success to skills he honed as a full-time missionary. A member of the Washington D.C....
Hong Kong district celebrates welfare anniversary
It was a unique day of service on Saturday, December 3, 2011, when dozens of members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from the Hong Kong China District assembled humanitarian kits and learned about poverty in commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the Church welfare system. ...
BYU seeks couples to teach in China
The David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies at BYU is seeking qualified couples and individuals to teach at highly respected universities in the People's Republic of China during the 2012-13 academic year. Although most teachers are hired to teach oral and written English, there is an...
How Mormons are using English language to reach immigrants
Mormon Life says: Reporter Omar Akhtar visits a Mormon church that uses English to reach out to Chinese immigrants. What a neat story.
Bing Ley asks me if I love English. The question takes me by surprise. I’ve been speaking English all my life and it never occurred to me that I could love the language. I tell him I think it’s...
Letters in the Jade Dragon Box: Finding the Church in China’s Past
Mormon Life says: Author Gale Sears did extensive research on China, and the Church in China, for her newest novel, Letters in the Jade Dragon Box. These are some of the discoveries she made as she researched that enigmatic country.
There are countries cloaked in mystery. One such country is China: an enigma of thousands of years of emperors, Confucian philosophers, peasant farmers and scientific discoveries of wonder. The...
World Wide Parenting Advice: Strengthening Families In China
In the spring of this year I was approached by an American woman who does service work in China, and asked if I would go to Beijing, China to help strengthen families there. This woman had been speaking to some government officials and asking how she could help China, and they said that they were...
