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Peoples of China

A New Voice

Trends in Chinese Pop Culture

[…] Jordon, Mel Gibson, and Madonna as do their American counterparts. Participation in Chinese pop culture is now participation in global pop culture. Crowds line up to buy tickets for the Rolling Stones, weep at the death of Princess Diana, keep track of Bill Gate’s billions, and closely follow Michael Jordan’s every slam dunk and […]

Chinese Church Voices

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, […]

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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 […]

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A Train Ride through 4 Provinces

[…] I focus on dinner. Although we could eat a meal sold from a cart wheeled through the train or in the dining car, we opt for a cheaper alternative—various snacks and instant noodles, made possible by convenient boiled water dispensers, standard in every train car. Some conversation, several rounds of a card game, and […]

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ZGBriefs | June 9, 2016

[…] in the foyer of a hospital in Kunming, the largest city in Yunnan Province, south-west China. There are lengthy queues to obtain one of the coveted ‘registration tickets' necessary to see a doctor, and arguments are breaking out among those who have been lining up for hours. Science / Technology China’s Internet Speed Ranks […]

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ZGBriefs | July 6, 2017

[…] Shanghai Trains Now Feature Personal Soft Sleeper Compartments (July 5, 2017, The Beijinger) High-speed train passengers in China now have the option of traveling with more privacy by booking tickets for individual sleeping compartments. Debuting this past weekend on the D311 train scheduled between Beijing and Shanghai, the personalized compartments are designed for a single passenger. Each bunk provides space for passengers and their […]

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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 […]

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ZGBriefs | April 11, 2019

Chinese immigrants helped build California, but they’ve been written out of its history (April 5, 2019, Los Angeles Times) From 1865 to 1869, as many as 20,000 Chinese laborers worked on the Central Pacific Railroad, which ran from Sacramento to Promontory Summit, Utah… 

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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 […]

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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 […]