Results for: guizhou
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Matters of the Heart . . . and the Nation
A Visit to the Big Flowery Miao
Daniel Wright spent two years in Guizhou, China on a fellowship that allowed him to study the people and societies of inland China. As he spoke with people, they expressed to him, in a variety of ways, the crisis of faith that has come with the erosion of belief in communism. The following is the account […]
Anshun City Protestant Church
Brief visits with a priest and a pastor in Anshun, Guizhou.
ZGBriefs – The Week’s Top Picks, November 6 Issue
All our favorite stories this week are about people or communities that are on the margins of Chinese society, either culturally or geographically: Orthodox Christians, Uighur factory workers, Hong Kong taxi drivers, and Miao villagers in Guizhou.
ZGBriefs | February 15, 2024
[…] day in this remote village in southwestern China, and the atmosphere is electric. Before thousands of fans on an outdoor court tucked in the rugged hills of Guizhou province — and with millions more watching online — teams from across China are vying to become champions of the “CunBA,” a grassroots version of the […]
ZGBriefs | October 31, 2024
[…] in China Journal) As China’s economy struggles in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, young people have been leaving cities and returning to the countryside. In Southeast Guizhou Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, the CunBA (村BA), or Village Basketball Association, has offered some respite from the economic gloom. Teams compete in front of raucous […]
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Reflections on the Role of Migrant Labor
[…] to do my card trick again. As I shuffled the deck, I asked them why they had decided to leave home. “We’re from the countryside in northeast Guizhou; it’s very poor there. We want to come out, earn some money, and see what we can learn. Who knows what will happen? But we can’t […]
July 25, 2013
[…] sample the cross sections of a city than to watch them change around you from the discomfort of a single subway seat. This is a people-watcher's paradise. Guizhou Trip Roundup Suggested Route and Recommended Dishes (July 24, 2013, Foodragon) From all the provinces in Southwest China, Guizhou is probably the least popular among travelers. […]
Guiyang!
Guizhou province is located in southwest China, bordering Yunnan and Sichuan to the west and north, and Hunan and Guangxi to the east and south. The capital is Guiyang, a city which The Lonely Planet describes as “an unpretentious, relatively youthful provincial capital seemingly under continual construction.” The city has a population of […]
The People and Places of Chinese Soccer
[…] so that some Chinese emigrants who wrote home from abroad addressed their letters simply to “Yuankeng, China,” and the letters arrived without complication. Cradle of Soccer in Guizhou: “Shimen Kan” Another person who contributed significantly to Chinese soccer was the British missionary Samuel Pollard. The development of soccer in Guizhou today is largely thanks […]
China’s Churches Reaching China’s Ethnic Minorities
[…] Dehong region. In the late ’80s, Yunnan Theological Seminary was established, and began recruiting minority students from all over the province. But minority churches in Xinjiang, Tibet, Guizhou-Guangxi, and Gansu-Qinghai provinces and regions had not yet been established. In the early 1990s, as the nations’ economic reforms continued to deepen, the Han church’s planting […]