Impressions on Returning to Post-COVID China
Having remained in China during the early stressful years of the COVID-19 pandemic, my family and I left in late 2021 for what we thought would be a brief trip...
Having remained in China during the early stressful years of the COVID-19 pandemic, my family and I left in late 2021 for what we thought would be a brief trip...
...and its future trajectory remains uncertain. As I write this, I have just exchanged messages of safety with local friends and coworkers in the Middle East. Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia,...
...are helping to break down, not re-enforce stereotypes. Molly says, “I knew that China’s mostly state-ran mainstream media offered a very simplistic, sometimes biased view of the continent, but I...
...and then the borders shut to foreigners in late March. Adapting to life in “exile” has had its ups and downs. I’m very grateful for the opportunity I’ve been given...
...As a Christian in Hong Kong, I am not only interested in the economic aspects of consolidation with our neighboring city, I am also interested in cross-border and cross-cultural exchanges...
...and behavior support. Hannah and I were having lunch one day and she asked me why I closed my eyes and folded my hands. I explained that I was praying...
...the case in all other cities in China, there are numerous unregistered churches. I would be remiss in writing about Chongqing if I didn’t mention that Chongqing is famous for...
...alerts, I finally took out the 3M mask my cousin had brought me from the United States. I didn’t care anymore that it always messes up my hair when I...
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The first time I visited Tianjin (in 1992), it was a three-hour train ride from Beijing. Today, that’s a thirty-minute ride. While that new high-speed rail line is bringing the...
When I was living in Changchun in the 1990s, as the city was beginning to shed the past and put on a modern skin, I often wondered what it would...
...not even mentioning the four flights of stairs followed by 80 meters of uneven sidewalk he would need to travel just to get to his front gate. Life has simply...