Complicity and Christian mission is an important coupling to consider. Christopher Sneller, a fellow PhD student during my time at King’s College London, has written a piece I wish to highlight. He summarizes how the tea and opium trade between China and Great Britain and the resulting humiliating Opium Wars (1839-60) damaged the “national Chinese psyche” and Western relations, including …
Education
The Laborer
When you consider socioeconomic level, what do you see in this picture? A poor man? A day trader? What status did you assign him? Is he alienated? Is he a pawn of capitalism? I occasionally use this photograph in class to illustrate how easily opinions can be formed based on appearance rather than true information gathering. This man rolls in his goods to sell to tourists every day, …