The China beyond Bicycles and Baozi*
...Reviewed by Andrew Kaiser As I prepared for my first visit to China in 1990, I had a clear vision of what China would be like. I expected to see...
...Reviewed by Andrew Kaiser As I prepared for my first visit to China in 1990, I had a clear vision of what China would be like. I expected to see...
...mooncake (September 13, 2016, Sinosplice) Like many foreigners (and many modern Chinese), I am not fond of the mooncake (despite once participating in a mooncake-eating contest). Yes, I am aware...
...are pretty rigid about their eating schedules, and now I realize that I have been reprogrammed. I think of 12pm as the lunchtime, with deviations as early as 11:30am or...
...read the book of Job. I realized I had never understood the book before. I did not know Job’s grief and indignation, and I felt that his two friends made...
...often blindside well-meaning foreigners attempting to navigate the maze of relationships that constitute the Chinese business environment. Most helpful is the “Little Red Book of Business” that concludes each chaptertwo...
...book club to discuss Jennifer Lin’s book Shanghai Faithful: Betrayal and Forgiveness in a Chinese Family. “Through the 150-year saga of a single family, this book vividly dramatizes the remarkable...
...us to set out long-term objectives that, if accomplished, the Father would clearly get the credit. While this book offers much more, for this review I will only highlight two...
...indicating “I am already a Christian.” However, there were also several “A”s, meaning “I accepted Christ as my savior and Lord tonight.” Using science as a hook to share the...
...goodwill for one’s friends, allies, and hosts. Books Long Peace Street: A Book Review (November 20, 2020, ChinaSource Blog) I consider myself a Beijinger. I left eight years ago this month and...
...who calls on party members to self-purify, under the supervision of fearsome internal-discipline inspectors. Religion Opening the Door to Reconciliation (April 3, 2023, ChinaSource Blog) “I’m right,” “I’m a good person,” and...
...(February 15, 2013, China File) On a recent trip to China, I heard a lot of scary talk of potential war over the disputed Diaoyu Islandsthis from both senior intellectual...
...beginning preparations to head someday to China, you need to read Mabel Williamson’s Have We No Rights? Williamson went to China as a single American woman in the 1930s to...