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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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…
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 […]
In Exile—Still Waiting
[…] permission to re-enter China. To our disbelief the answer was yes. The following day, however, the answer was no. Reluctantly, we stepped out in faith and bought tickets, praying that our flight would remain on schedule. Thankfully, it did—the airport closed later that night to all transiting passengers. In late March we landed safely […]
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 […]
Is the Door Slowly Opening?
[…] 2020, the doors to China slammed shut, and, like thousands of others, China’s two plus years of strict COVID control measures and the exorbitant cost of air tickets have made his travel there or his parents’ travel here impossible. And even if he did make it back, he would still have been looking at […]
Bibles in China: The Gray Zone Shrinks
[…] the sale of Bibles outside of registered churches has always been illegal. In the past decade, however, enforcement of that regulation has become, shall we say, rather lax, and numerous online retail outlets have offered the Bible for sale. They did this, not because it was suddenly legal to do so, but because the […]