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OPERATION CHINA PAUL HATTAWAY

"A remarkable, graphic visualization of the urgent reality of the un-reach people" ... Dr Ralph Winter Founder  , US center for World Mission

"I have relied much on the information in Operation China during compilation of the section on China for the latest edition of Operation World, due to be published in 2001 ... Patrick Johnstone" , Author of Operation World, WEC International UK

"The massive revival among the Han Chinese in recent decades may have led to a neglect of many other large groups in China which are still totally un-reached by the Gospel.  Operation China is an essential tool for prayer, strategy and action";... Tony Lambert Director of Research, China Ministries , OMF International 

Provides comprehensive and up to date information:

• based on field research; the harvest of more than ten year's work.
• including important new ethnographical and anthropological material
• indexed, and with an extensive bibliography of English and Chinese language publications
• 490 profiles that include maps, statistics, and linguistic classifications
• illustrated with 704 full color photographs
• information-packed but opening doors into the everyday lives of individuals
• encouraging prayer through a prayer calendar

              " Few have been fortunate enough to experience the "hidden" China which possesses a side so dramatically colorful and enticing that many are surprised to find it even exists.  Woven into the mosaic of the largest population on earth is a rich thread : China's ethnic minorities, though numbering more than 100 million People, largely lost amid the vast ocean of 1.2 billion Han Chinese.

                Operation China introduces the reader to these hidden minority groups .  They will meet groups and cultures as diverse as the pale faced, blue-eyed Muslims of Xinjiang and the tribal people of the jungles of Yunnan with their intricately embroidered costumes;  the fascinating proud Tibetans in the west and the nomadic hunters of the Eskimo-related tribes in the extreme northeast of this vast country.  Although numerically the minorities of China account for only 6.7% of China's population, they inhabit 62.5% of China's territory "   PAUL HATTAWAY - from the introduction to Operation China.