Where Are the “Liu Mei?”
...liumei rose to positions of power in the Party and government. Whenever I read an article about Chinese students in the US, I think about Professor Y and that fantastic...
...liumei rose to positions of power in the Party and government. Whenever I read an article about Chinese students in the US, I think about Professor Y and that fantastic...
As a professor of sociology at Purdue University for 19 years, I have been regularly teaching a course called “Religion in America.” In American history, there have been three or...
...now works for Tsinghua Fuzhong, Tsinghua University’s Affiliated High School. He just published a book in China called Creative China about his experiences in Chinese public schools. I spoke to...
...Later I felt guilty because I had told a lie. I really didn’t like the food. At the time I didn’t realize how much my American and Asian heritage were...
...American people. The struggles of displaced people transcend history and geography. The preceding story was told in the San Francisco news in 1936 and more fully developed in John Steinbecks...
...Veblen, a famous American economist in the 19th century, wrote a sensational book titled The Theory of the Leisure Class. This book tartly criticizes some phenomena among the American upper...
...the question, “Who moved my cheese?”8 Evangelicals today may well be asking, “Who moved my church?” In the year 1910, 93 percent of Christians lived in North American and Europe....
...Travel / Food China Knows Potatoes, Yet Doesn’t Appreciate Potatoes (September 27, 2018, Sinosplice) I like potatoes. I have Polish and Irish blood, so maybe it’s in my DNA. China has a...
...requirements, and religious statistics are even more problematic. I entered this minefield some 40 years ago and have consistently advocated taking a cautious approach which I shall continue here! There...
...I wouldn’t want to live there. Whenever I arrive back in my humble, frozen city of Daqing, I always let out a sigh of relief. It’s nice to be home....
...my mother-in-law comes, I might say to her (FG#12), “My mother has a lung problem and will be asking you for help. Could you have a look?” I feel in...
...discussing projects at work. If I simply asked a direct question, I may have received a prompt reply, but the feedback either created inaccurate perceptions or misunderstandings. If we dig deeper...