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The Search for God in Chinese Culture and Contemporary China

2009· article· en· W1493868143 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
K. F. Kwan, Si-yi Han

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian social science · 2009
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicChristian Theology and Mission
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsChristianityFaithChinaHumanitiesEthnologyChinese cultureArtPhilosophyPolitical scienceSociologyReligious studiesTheologyLaw

Abstract

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The current era is both exciting and confusing. A lot of changes are going on in China. There are both crises and opportunities. In this essay, I want to introduce many exciting recent developments of contemporary Christianity in China. All the developments show that the Chinese church is already taking deeper and deeper roots in China, and there are a lot of opportunities for the church to participate in culture and society. Many Chinese, both common people and intellectuals, have a renewed appreciation of the strength and relevance of the Christian faith, and many others are crying out for something that can satisfy their spiritual longing. Yes, indeed many people are searching for God, or perhaps it is God Himself who has been actively searching for the Chinese since very early times. Key words: Christianity, Chinese culture, contemporary China Resume: L'epoque actuelle est a la fois passionnant et deroutant. De nombreuses changements sont en cours en Chine. Il existe en meme temps des crises et des opportunites. Dans cet essai, je tiens a presenter le recent developpement excitant du Christianisme contemporain en Chine. Tous les developpements montrent que l’eglise chinoise s’est deja enracinee de plus en plus profondement en Chine, et il y a beaucoup de opportunites pour l'eglise de participer a la culture et la societe. Beaucoup de chinois, le populaire et les intellectuels, ont une appreciation renovatrice de la force et la pertinence de la foi Chretienne, et beaucoup d'autres ont cruellement besoin de quelque chose qui peut satisfaire leur desirs spirituels. Oui, en effet, de nombreuses personnes sont a la recherche de Dieu, ou peut-etre c'est Dieu lui-meme qui cherchait activement pour les Chinois depuis tres longtemps. Mots-Cles: Christianisme, Culture chinoise, la Chine contemporaine

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.086
Threshold uncertainty score0.171

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.003
Science and technology studies0.0080.006
Scholarly communication0.0030.002
Open science0.0000.002
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.020
GPT teacher head0.271
Teacher spread0.251 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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