ZGBriefs | September 18, 2025
...of the East (东方圣城).” The Glamour and the Gloom of Cabin Life for China’s Female Flight Attendants (September 12, 2025, The World of Chinese) With many American and European airlines...
...of the East (东方圣城).” The Glamour and the Gloom of Cabin Life for China’s Female Flight Attendants (September 12, 2025, The World of Chinese) With many American and European airlines...
...the Pope!” I thought about this encounter a lot while reading this book. China’s Church Divided tells the story of the fraught relationship between the Chinese Catholic Church, the Vatican, and the...
...enter Mainland China often requires filling out pages of paperwork, paying more than US$100, and waiting days for the documents to be processed. But for a growing number of visitors,...
...the Berean example. This posture at the start of the book unwittingly places the book on a pedestal of superiority, which does not augur well for a world or global mission that...
...a Number: China Eases Age Restrictions on Civil Service (October 14, 2025, Sixth Tone) For years, 35 was typically the cutoff age for anyone seeking to be a civil servant...
...new People’s Republic rose. Her father had worked for that government; her mother carried the memories of flight and loss that would shape a lifetime. Seventy-five years later, here we...
...book-writing from “The Souls of China and Sparks,” two books that I enjoyed very much last year, and would definitely recommend to anyone hoping to understand China’s grassroots movements to...
...number and rank of the toppled officials. This suggests the removals are as much about Mr. Xi’s strategy to control China’s military and political elite as they are about individual...
...number of overseas clients, particularly from emerging markets such as Southeast Asia, Central Asia and Africa, are proactively proposing to settle trade orders in yuan. Is China’s Near Monopoly in...
...China, and limitations on travelling abroad for even high-ranking government officials are commonplace. With the recent media coverage surrounding the rising number of bans on businesspeople from leaving the mainland,...
...the depth of the purity concept in Tibetan Buddhism. More than this, the book introduces the Tibetan Buddhist worldview and history and in the closing chapters there is a missiological...
...of Young Chinese (November 12, 2025, Sixth Tone) In her new book, “The Time Inheritors,” released this year, Xu unpacks the way people use — and “misuse” — their time...