Selected Documents on Religious Work in the New Period ） （ 北京 ： 宗教 文化 出版社 ） , pp .
 
105-106. Hu ’ s proposal was not publicized at the time , but the fact that it was subsequently included in this collection of documents edited by the RAB and the CPC Central Committee testifies to its importance .
 
13 “ Decision of the Central Committee of the CPC on the Reform of the Economic Structure , ” Beijing Review , 27 : 44 ( 29 October , 1984 ) , pp .
 
III-XVI .
 
For a discussion of this decision , see Baum , “ The Road to Tiananmen : Chinese Politics in the 1980s , ” The Politics of China : The Eras of Mao and Deng , ed .
 
Roderick MacFarquhar , 2nd ed .
 
( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1997 ) , p .
 
365.14 I have analyzed this more fully in Philip L .
 
Wickeri , Reconstructing Christianity in China : K .
 
H .
 
Ting and the Chinese Church ( Maryknoll : Orbis Books , 2007 ) , especially chapters seven and eight .
 
15 The statement was informal , because Ting and Han did not want to appear to be directly encouraging such contributions .
 
“ On Contributions to China from Churches and Christians Overseas ” is based on an interview with this author in Nanjing on 4 December , 1984. It was initially published in Bridge : Church Life in China Today , 9 ( January-February , 1985 ) , pp .
 
3-5, with my interpretation , which reflected the idea of Bishop Ting .
 
It was widely reprinted overseas .
 
It was also translated and published internally in China , an example of “ exportation for re-importation ” ( 出口 轉 內銷 ) 。 16 “ On Contributions to China from Churches and Christians Overseas , ” Bridge , p .
 
3.17 K .
 
H .
 
Ting circular letter of 20 December , 1984. For one reflection on this letter see Rhea Whitehead , “ Canadian Churches and Amity Foundation Partnership , ” Growing in Partnership : The Amity Foundation , 1985-2005, ed .
 
Katrin Fielder and Liwei Zhang ( Nanjing : The Amity Foundation , 2005 ) , p .
 
180ff .
 
Also see Ewing W .
 
Carroll , Jr .
 
, Oliver Engelen and Beate Engelen , eds .
 
Amity ’ s Founding : Recollections from Abroad ( Hong Kong : The Amity Foundation Hong Kong Ltd .
 
, 2010 ) .
 
18 愛德 基金會 章程 ， 1985.04.19.19 “ Amity ’ s Understanding of Relationships with Overseas Organizations , ” Amity Newsletter , 4 ( Spring , 1987 ) , p .
 
1.20 This is based on my own notes and journals , the oral history that I did and records from the time .
 
There are very few people still active who were there at the creation of Amity .
 
The early years of the Amity Foundation , its formation in China and its international reception , would be a good subject for a doctoral dissertation in the area of religion and charity in contextual and global perspective .
 
The Chinese context of Amity ’ s foundation is in particular need of further study .
 
21 Arthur Waley , The Way and Its Power : A Study of the Tao Te Ching and Its Place in Chinese Thought ( London : George Allen and Unwin , Ltd .
 
, 1965 ) .
 
The idea of translating aide as “ love and the power of love ” came