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Zenz is a [[Born again|born-again Christian]]. He stated that he feels "led by God" in his mission.<ref name="WSJ2019">{{cite news |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-german-data-diver-who-exposed-chinas-muslim-crackdown-11558431005 |title=The German Data Diver Who Exposed China's Muslim Crackdown |last=Chin |first=Josh |work=[[The Wall Street Journal]] |date=21 May 2019 |accessdate=14 January 2020}}</ref>
Zenz is a [[Born again|born-again Christian]]. He stated that he feels "led by God" in his mission.<ref name="WSJ2019">{{cite news |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-german-data-diver-who-exposed-chinas-muslim-crackdown-11558431005 |title=The German Data Diver Who Exposed China's Muslim Crackdown |last=Chin |first=Josh |work=[[The Wall Street Journal]] |date=21 May 2019 |accessdate=14 January 2020}}</ref>


With Marlon S. Sias, Zenz co-authored the 2012 book, "''Worthy to Escape: Why All Believers Will Not Be Raptured Before the Tribulation"''.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Zenz|first=Adrian|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=lRtSQB3HHJcC&pg=PA30 |title=Worthy to Escape: Why All Believers Will Not Be Raptured Before the Tribulation|last2=Sias|first2=Marlon L.|date=November 2012|publisher=WestBow Press|isbn=978-1-4497-6906-2|language=en|pages= |quote=}}</ref>
With Marlon S. Sias, Zenz co-authored the book, "''Worthy to Escape: Why All Believers Will Not Be Raptured Before the Tribulation"'' which warned certain modern trends, including [[gender equality]], decriminalisation of homosexuality and bans on [[corporal punishment]], are linked to the power of the [[Antichrist]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Zenz|first=Adrian|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=lRtSQB3HHJcC&pg=PA30 |title=Worthy to Escape: Why All Believers Will Not Be Raptured Before the Tribulation|last2=Sias|first2=Marlon L.|date=November 2012|publisher=WestBow Press|isbn=978-1-4497-6906-2|language=en|pages=46-47 |quote=The deceptive leopard-like power of the Antichrist is the prevailing spirit of the age, the world's dominant philosophy, and it is already becoming quite obvious what that will be: postmodern relativism and tolerance thinking. [...] Rising numbers of countries are banning all forms of physical punishments of children [...] But true scriptural spanking is loving discipline and not violence, and neglecting the wisdom of the church makes the church increasingly vulnerable to the schemes of the enemy. Another important God-given authority structure that Satan is attacking through the postmodern spirit is that of gender authority structures [...] Through notions of gender equality [...] the enemy is undermining God's unique but different role assignments for men and women.}}</ref>


Zenz advises doctoral students at the European School of Culture and Theology at the {{ill|Akademie für Weltmission|lt=|de|AWM gGmbH|WD=}}<ref name="diplomat2018"/><ref name=Jamestown/>
Zenz advises doctoral students at the European School of Culture and Theology at the {{ill|Akademie für Weltmission|lt=|de|AWM gGmbH|WD=}}<ref name="diplomat2018"/><ref name=Jamestown/>

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Adrian Zenz
NationalityGerman[1]
Alma materUniversity of Auckland
University of Cambridge
Known forResearch on Xinjiang re-education camps
Scientific career
FieldsAnthropology
InstitutionsAkademie für Weltmission [de]
Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation

Adrian Zenz is a German anthropologist known for his studies on the Xinjiang re-education camps. He is a lecturer in social research methodology at the Evangelical theological institution Akademie für Weltmission [de][2][3] and a senior fellow in China studies at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.[4][3]

Education

Zenz received a Master's degree in Development Studies from the University of Auckland and a PhD from the University of Cambridge in Social Anthropology with a doctoral thesis on minority education, job opportunities, and the ethnic identity of young Tibetans in western China.[5]

Anthropology

In 2019, Zenz studied the mass detention of Uyghurs in re-education camps in Xinjiang based on Chinese government documents and spreadsheets pointing toward factories with interned workers from the internment camps.[4] In July 2019, Zenz published a study giving a speculative upper limit to the total number of people detained at any time since late 2016 in Xinjiang re-education camps at 1.5 million.[6] In November 2019, Zenz estimated that the number of internment camps in Xinjiang had surpassed 1,000.[7] Zenz has also published research, using public Chinese government documents found on the internet, that showed that the Chinese government has spent tens of millions of dollars since 2016 on a birth control surgery program that includes cash incentives for sterilization procedures and makes birth control violations punishable by internment in the Xinjiang re-education camps.[8][9][10]

Zenz is the author of 'Tibetanness' Under Threat?, a study of the modern Tibetan education system. In the book, he examines the career prospects of students who major in Tibetan-language studies and the notion that the greater market value of Chinese-language education threatens Tibetan ethnocultural survival.[11][3]

Theology

Zenz is a born-again Christian. He stated that he feels "led by God" in his mission.[1]

With Marlon S. Sias, Zenz co-authored the book, "Worthy to Escape: Why All Believers Will Not Be Raptured Before the Tribulation" which warned certain modern trends, including gender equality, decriminalisation of homosexuality and bans on corporal punishment, are linked to the power of the Antichrist.[12]

Zenz advises doctoral students at the European School of Culture and Theology at the Akademie für Weltmission [de][2][3]

References

  1. ^ a b Chin, Josh (21 May 2019). "The German Data Diver Who Exposed China's Muslim Crackdown". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
  2. ^ a b Tiezzi, Shannon (1 December 2018). "Adrian Zenz on China's Xinjiang Re-Education Campaign". The Diplomat. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
  3. ^ a b c d "Adrian Zenz". Retrieved 1 July 2020.
  4. ^ a b Editorial Board (16 December 2019). "China appears to add a sickening new dimension to its treatment of Uighurs". The Washington Post. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
  5. ^ "Adrian Zenz". Akademie für Weltmission [de]. Archived from the original on 23 May 2015. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
  6. ^ Zenz, Adrian. "Brainwashing, Police Guards and Coercive Internment: Evidence from Chinese Government Documents about the Nature and Extent of Xinjiang's "Vocational Training Internment Camps"". Journal of Political Risk. 7 (7). Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  7. ^ Lipes, Joshua (12 November 2019). "Expert Estimates China Has More Than 1,000 Internment Camps For Xinjiang Uyghurs". Radio Free Asia. Retrieved 13 November 2019.
  8. ^ "China cuts Uighur births with IUDs, abortion, sterilization". Associated Press. 29 June 2020.
  9. ^ "China forcibly sterilising Uighur women in campaign to control population, new report says". SBS News. 30 June 2020. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
  10. ^ Zenz, Adrian (June 2020). "Sterilizations, Forced Abortions, and Mandatory Birth Control" (PDF). Jamestown Foundation. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
  11. ^ Zenz, Adrian (2013). 'Tibetanness' Under Threat?: Neo-Integrationism, Minority Education and Career Strategies in Qinghai, P.R. China. Global Oriental. ISBN 978-9004257962.
  12. ^ Zenz, Adrian; Sias, Marlon L. (November 2012). Worthy to Escape: Why All Believers Will Not Be Raptured Before the Tribulation. WestBow Press. pp. 46–47. ISBN 978-1-4497-6906-2. The deceptive leopard-like power of the Antichrist is the prevailing spirit of the age, the world's dominant philosophy, and it is already becoming quite obvious what that will be: postmodern relativism and tolerance thinking. [...] Rising numbers of countries are banning all forms of physical punishments of children [...] But true scriptural spanking is loving discipline and not violence, and neglecting the wisdom of the church makes the church increasingly vulnerable to the schemes of the enemy. Another important God-given authority structure that Satan is attacking through the postmodern spirit is that of gender authority structures [...] Through notions of gender equality [...] the enemy is undermining God's unique but different role assignments for men and women.
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