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Strangers in the City
[…] numbers to evacuate on packed trains and buses. As they left town, they packed the sidewalks, wearing crude gauze masks for protection and hauling their belongings in cheap rice sacks. For a short time, ironically, migrant workers ruled the streets that the majority of Beijing residents had left deserted. A far cry from being […]
ZGBriefs The Weeks Top Picks, January 3 Issue
[…] their parents. Most are the offspring of peasants who have flocked to cities in one of the largest migrations in human history. For three decades, the migrants' cheap labor has fueled China's rise as an economic juggernaut. But the city workers are so squeezed by high costs and long hours that many send their […]
Reflections on a First Visit to Hong Kong
[…] finally, when I booked my flight and accommodation in Hong Kong, I could not understand why the flight from Kuala Lumpur and nine nights’ accommodation were so cheap. I soon realized that the hostel that I booked was in Chunking Mansions, a major gathering place for asylum seekers, refugees, and illegal immigrants in Hong […]
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A New Understanding of the Relationship between Christianity and Chinese Culture
[…] have monopolized questions of Christian identity in China since the 1980s, and the result is a church that while not necessarily “less Chinese” is certainly more global. Cheap air travel, labor migration, tourism, study abroad, and the Internet bind the villagers to the popular culture of global Catholicism even though their church remains formally […]
ZGBriefs | July 21, 2016
Why China is probably never getting Pokemon Go (July 18, 2016, Tech in Asia)
Pokemon Go, although it’s not available in China, is already making people nervous. A popular Weibo conspiracy theory goes that the entire game is a US-Japanese plot to GPS map China and determine the locations of Chinese military bases to facilitate […]
ZGBriefs | September 8, 2016
[…] centers are rapidly losing appeal to consumers in many cities due to their lack of competitive strengths, the report said. Yiwu, a City at the Core of Cheap Chinese Goods – A Sinica Podcast (September 7, 2016, China File) In this episode of Sinica, Kaiser and David Moser speak with Dan Whelan, director and […]
ZGBriefs | November 29, 2018
[…] less glamorous side of China’s rapid change: a reliance on the heavy hand of big infrastructure as a salve for deeper problems in politics and economics. How Cheap Labor Drives China’s A.I. Ambitions (November 25, 2018, The New York Times) In China, long the world’s factory floor, a new generation of low-wage workers is assembling the […]
A Church in Guiyang
[…] the time I arrived there, it was about 2pm. I set about looking for a hotel near the train station. It wasn’t long before I found one that was cheap, about US$25 per night. That should have been a clue. But I booked a room there anyway. It was very small, but given the price, didn’t look too bad. At about 9 that […]
True Luxury
[…] John 12 reveals to us that the people who chased after glory from man got what glory they were able to get, but it was only a cheap knockoff. We think that if we are able to string together sufficient honor, achievements, beauty, bodily build, and intelligence, then we can live a “luxury life.” […]
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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, […]