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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
ZGBriefs The Weeks Top Picks, March 20 Issue
[…] provides another glimpse of the complexity of China today. The Nightmare Never Ends For Families of Missing Jet (March 19, 2014, TIME) With the fate of Mayasia Airlines Flight 370 still unknown and dominating much of the media, this article takes a look at what it means for the families and friends of the […]
A Ten-Year Visa
[…] brand-spanking-new Ten-year, multiple entry tourist visa to China. I first got wind of this new visa from a report in the Wall Street Journal back on November 11, 2014. It came during President Obama’s trip to China: President Barack Obama unveiled the new visa arrangements in a speech to business executives in Beijing. According to […]
Nanjing!
[…] time. To those in the west, it is perhaps best known as the site of the Nanking Massacre, when invading Japanese soldiers killed hundreds of thousands of citizens of the city. Getting there is as easy as ever; China Eastern Airlines flies non-stop from Los Angeles. Image credit: Morning Nanjing, by Gu Ming, via Flickr.
Chengdu!
My first visit to Chengdu was in 1985, just before the Spring Festival holiday in late January. Having just completed one semester of teaching in Zhengzhou, Henan Province my teammates and I decided to take a boat ride down the Yangtze River from Chongqing to Wuhan on our way out to Hong Kong for […]
Changsha!
[…] the Summer 2010 edition of the ChinaSource Quarterly. The fieldwork was done in Changsha. Getting to Changsha from the US is easier than ever now that Hainan Airlines offers non-stop service between Changsha and Los Angeles. There are also direct flights between Changsha and Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Seoul, Bangkok, and Taipei. Image credit: […]
Responding to Tragedy
[…] the Crash of Flight MU5735: Mourn with Those Who Mourn; Be Alert to Spreading Incidences of Survival that Damage the Gospel On March 21, 2022, China Eastern Airlines flight MU5735, a Boeing 737 passenger aircraft, crashed with 132 people on board in Teng county, Guangxi province. The crash occurred after the plane took off […]