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| Editor-in-chief | Mei Kangjun |
|---|---|
| Former editors | Shen Derong, Shen Cheng'en, Y. T. Wu |
| Categories | Christian media |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Publisher | Three-Self Patriotic Movement (TSPM) and China Christian Council (CCC) |
| Total circulation (2000) | 130,000 |
| Founder | Y. T. Wu |
| Founded | 1945 |
| Country | China |
| Based in | 169 Yuanmingyuan Road, Shanghai[1] |
| Language | Chinese |
| Website | www |
| ISSN | 1006-1274 |
| OCLC | 182562933 |
| Tian Feng: The Magazine of the Protestant Churches in China | |||
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| Traditional Chinese | 天風．中国基督教杂志 | ||
| Simplified Chinese | 天风．中国基督教杂志 | ||
| Literal meaning | Heavenly wind | ||
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Tian Feng: The Magazine of the Protestant Churches in China[2] (Chinese: 天风．中国基督教杂志; lit. 'Heavenly wind'[3][4]) is the organ of the Three-Self Patriotic Movement (TSPM), the state-sanctioned body of Protestant Christians in China, and the most widely circulated Christian magazine in the country.
The magazine was founded in 1945 as Tian Feng: The Christian Weekly by Y. T. Wu and others as an initially liberal Christian publication published by the YMCA. In 1948 he published an article titled "The Present Day Tragedy of Christianity" criticizing foreign missionaries, for which he was fired as editor. Tian Feng became the official organ of the newly founded TSPM in 1949[a] representing Protestants in the communist government's official religious policy. The magazine would side with the government, suppress unapproved Christian sects, and discredit theologians who were out of line. At the height of the Cultural Revolution, writing on theology became increasingly rare, and the magazine was discontinued in 1964. Following the Cultural Revolution, Tian Feng returned with a new inaugural issue on 20 October 1980. While still promoting officially sanctioned religious policy, Tian Feng occasionally expresses hopes for ecumenism or criticizes certain impediments to the freedom of religion in China.
- ^ Towery 2000, p. 213.
- ^ Si, Barbara Hoster; Kuhlmann, Dirk; Wesolowski, Zbigniew (2017). Rooted in Hope: China - Religion - Christianity / Festschrift in Honor of Roman Malek S.V.D. on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday. Taylor & Francis. p. XLI. ISBN 978-1-351-67278-8.
- ^ 天风．中国基督教杂志杂志官网. zhazhi.com (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 17 November 2018. Retrieved 29 May 2017.
- ^ Fällman, Frederik (2009). "Tianfeng". In Davis, Edward L. (ed.). Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture. Oxon: Taylor & Francis. p. 832. ISBN 978-0-415-77716-2.
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