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Reflections from a Foreign Friend: My Years with China’s Migrants
[…] place where they were registered. When the economic reform era began in 1979 under Deng Xiaoping, foreign-owned factories and industries sprang up by the thousands, all requiring cheap labor for building, manufacturing, and maintaining. Uneducated villagers began pouring into coastal areas, finding employment as unskilled laborers on construction sites and in factory assembly lines, […]
ZGBriefs | February 9, 2023
[…] Fad? (February 2, 2023, The World of Chinese) Once shunned by Chinese youth as old-fashioned and overly formal, tea-drinking is bcoming cool again. How China Fell In Love With Cheap Wine (February 7, 2023, Sixth Tone) Once a symbol of luxury, today’s wine market is dominated by so-called little wines — and increasingly the category known as “996-es”: […]
Draft Proposal for a Law of Religion Unveiled
[…] 4. Religious groups and religious sites should not earn profits. What should we do with religious structures and religious properties located in scenic sites? Should temples sell tickets for their tourist attractions? Professor Liu takes a clear stand in the draft of the religious law: For houses, buildings, ancillary facilities, plants and trees, tombs, […]
Community and Witness
[…] friendly, peaceful and happy our workplace environment seems to be: whether delivering water bottles, doing a news story for a local paper, or collecting payments for train tickets these same expressions of wonder and envy have been expressed to us time and time again. I recall numerous neighbors marveling at foreign children's ability to […]
A Train Ride through 4 Provinces
[…] I settle into our second night of sleep. Blessedly, we sleep through the night undisturbed. At 7:30 am, a staff member awakens the passengers to return the tickets she collected almost two days earlier. The sun rises on a flat but green landscape. Just north of Chengdu, in the heart of Sichuan province, we […]
Shenyang!
[…] to make it in time for the start of language classes at Northeast Normal University. The short version of the story is that there were no train tickets available so our fearless leader decided to charter a bus to take us on what he promised was a 14-hour journey. It wasn’t; we arrived in […]
Faith. Hope. Love.
[…] over and over. Several knew a friend of a friend who had bought a ticket and won. One of the younger teachers pulled a hand full of tickets from his pocket. We all laughed. “No,” he said before anyone asked. “I’ve never won a thing.” Then a quiet father of a little girl whose […]
In Exile—Outside the Wall
[…] studying signs. Train stations were particularly helpful because there were giant signs in the ticket hall listing out the names of all of the cities to which tickets could be purchased. It was a great test; how many cities could I recognize? One thing I noticed was that the list of cities was divided […]
My Heart Aches for Shanxi but with Hope
[…] returned to the US in March 2020, we only expected to be here for several weeks helping to facilitate work groups for a conference. We had return tickets to China for late April and multiple-entry R (foreign expert) and S2 (spousal) China visas in our passports. Even with the outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan […]
Keeping a Cow
Practical Language Learning, Then and Now
[…] Working with a language helper, she constructed dialogs and vocabulary lists. Topics included things like shopping in the market, ordering in a restaurant, buying train and/or plane tickets, going to the hospital, shopping for computer parts in Zhongguancun, and renewing a residence permit. A few years ago, a friend of mine, while researching for […]