page_title: Tian Feng (magazine)
section_title: Format
hierarchical_section_title: Tian Feng (magazine) / Format
caption_attribution_description: English: The office of CCC and TSPM in Shanghai. 中文（简体）‎: 上海的中国基督教两会会址。
context_page_description: Tian Feng: The Magazine of the Protestant Churches in China is the organ of the Three-Self Patriotic Movement, 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 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.
context_section_description: Tian Feng is now the most popular Christian magazine in China and is distributed on a nationwide basis. At times, it has been the only such magazine available. It is the only Protestant magazine that is sold abroad.
  Since publishing restarted in 1980, Tian Feng has been a monthly magazine. It is published jointly by the National Committee of the TSPM and CCC in Shanghai. For CCC, its publishing activities are run by its Tian Feng Editorial Committee.
  The magazine disseminates the views of TSPM and CCC as well as religious policy of the Chinese government, along with devotional articles. Typical contents also include poems, color photographs, church news, sermons, and Bible studies. Recent issues have shown a widening of its scope and an "outward-looking ecumenism" of the state-sanctioned Protestant churches of China. The magazine also publishes stories about coping with economic change in China, family problems and friction between different churches. Recent themes have included criticism of Pentecostalism, cults, and the unofficial hymnal Canaan Hymns. On the other hand, the magazine has also criticized the government and its State Administration for Religious Affairs for curtailing religious freedom.
  Tian Feng is distributed by local Three-Self Committees and Christian Councils and has a circulation of 130,000. Subscribers include overseas Chinese churches. Its editor-in-chief is Mei Kangjun. Previous editors include Shen Derong and Shen Cheng'en.
  The magazine is published in Chinese. Since 1991, the Hong Kong-based Amity Foundation, aligned with the TSPM and CCC, has published bi-monthly digests of the magazine in English. In 2002, Tian Feng was given an award for being one of the best Shanghai-based magazines.
caption: The office of the Three-Self Patriotic Movement (TSPM) and China Christian Council (CCC). Tian Feng is jointly published by these lianghui (double organization) in Shanghai.
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