The Lisu ethnic group numbers 634,912 people, and most of them live in concentrated communities in Bijiang, Fugong, Gongshan and Lushui counties of the Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture in ...

British missionary James O. Fraser overcame depression to help give the Lisu a written language, translate the Bible, and make them renowned hymn singers. One of the country’s 55 ethnic minorities, ...

Living mainly in southwest China's Yunnan Province, the Lisu ethnic group boasts a long history that possibly dates as far back as the Tang Dynasty, more than 1, 300 years ago. It was not until the ...

FRANKLIN — Most of the students had never seen the words of the Bible translated in their language. All of them spoke Lisu, an obscure Asian language. The Lisu people number about 1 million throughout ...

In the Lisu language, "Shi Mi Wa Di" means "a place worth visiting." On the vast, verdant lawns, rivers flow gently, with lush grass and well-fed cattle. Young men and women, sometimes sitting in ...

The Lisu ethnic group numbers 574,600 people, and most of them live in concentrated communities in Bijiang, Fugong, Gongshan and Lushui counties of the Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture in ...

Pastor Jesse’s mud-plastered Mitsubishi SUV jolted wildly along the newly dug dirt road that zigzagged up the mountainside toward the construction site of the new church. We stopped to let a ...

The Lisu ethnic group numbers 574,856 people (by 1990), and most of them live in concentrated communities in Bijiang, Fugong, Gongshan and Lushui counties of the Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture in ...