Results for: cheap
View From the Wall
When Can I Go Home?
Caring for China's Homeless Children
[…] nonexistent. Falling victim to scams or discrimination, being yelled at or chased away are all commonplace occurrences. They fend for themselves by begging, collecting trash, working as cheap labor or even committing petty crimes. In the shadow of skyscrapers, they barely survive. They are the “homeless children.” The term “homeless children” is controversial in […]
Book Reviews
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 […]
American Factory
A Film Review
[…] those who has been watching American Factory. “The working class is degraded, and, as elsewhere in the third world, workers have been reduced to a source of cheap, alienated labor for international capital.” American Factory is a movie I am recommending to my friends and family who have never lived in China. It gives […]
October 18, 2012
[…] of the Chinese police, and the still-debilitating aftereffects of Maos Cultural Revolution.Changing China seen from the ‘hard seats’ of a train (October 12, 2012, BBC)Travelling with a cheap rail ticket provides a snapshot of any country’s underbelly. Doing it twice at an interval of 26 years, in a country like China, provides a fascinating […]
ZGBriefs | June 1, 2017
[…] in China' could soon be made in the US (May 31, 2017, CNBC) It's Chinese-made in America. Yes, you read that right. Contrary to widespread belief, China isn't the cheap place to manufacture that it once was, and rising costs have been forcing manufacturers to explore new countries to make their goods. Health / Environment China’s […]
Treasures at the Market
[…] asked about the accessories that usually came with these outfits (doll-sized skates, beach towels, umbrellas, and sunglasses) but she shook her head. “Maybe that’s why they’re so cheap,” one of my little friends concluded. I bought a few things for my niece in the US, and we three happily left with our bargains. Realizing […]
Confucius, the Bible, and Preaching
[…] way; however that does not mean we should debase it and try to flog its teaching like goods in an end of season sale! Is the Bible cheap truth? Is it discounted wisdom? Can we preach the word of God using the Yu Dan method: dispense with preparatory study and meditate over a cup […]
Lead Article
Telecommunications and the Internet in China
[…] China Mobile, which was originally part of China Telecom and separately incorporated in 1999, is planning to start wired telephone an related services. It is already offering cheap mobile services in limited areas based on fixed-line technology. Smaller Chinese state-owned telecommunications service companies are China Netcom (broadband data communications), Jitong (data networks), CSTNet and […]
ZGBriefs | April 30, 2020
[…] Roberts looks at one of the biggest questions facing China: will it successfully make the transition from its decades-old role as “factory to the world” – reliant on cheap, low-skilled workers – and become a superpower with its own globally competitive companies and leading-edge technology? Links for Researchers Pandemics & Propaganda: How Chinese State Media […]
Book Reviews
Country Driving
A Journey through China from Farm to Factory
[…] is observed in the Lishui bra ring factory, which moves to a newly declared green zone to gain a temporary economic edge because the short-term leases are cheap and nobody pays attention to businesses slated for removal. When the account breaks off, the whole economic zone in Lishui is mid-expansion to four times its […]