Results for: guizhou
ZGBriefs | August 6, 2015
[…] when completed, Xinhua News Agency reported. The 500-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope, known as FAST, sits in a bowl-shaped valley between hills in the southwestern province of Guizhou, images posted online show. Chinese premier stresses innovation as 'golden key' for development (August 29, 2015, China Daily) Premier Li Keqiang has called for greater efforts […]
ZGBriefs | May 17, 2018
[…] Last Cave Dwellers Fight to Keep Their Underground Homes (May 13, 2018, The New York Times) When armed bandits prowled this remote, mountainous stretch of the southwestern province of Guizhou in the chaotic years before the founding of modern China, the ethnic Miao villagers hid in the region’s enormous caves. And there they have remained, even […]
ZGBriefs | June 23, 2022
[…] 21, 2022, CNN) Guangdong is one of at least seven provinces where the record rainfall has caused severe landslides and flooded roads, according to state media. In southwestern Guizhou province, swollen rivers spilled over roads, sweeping away cars and homes, videos on social media showed. Two women still hospitalized after brutal attack in China (June 21, […]
December 13, 2012
[…] Beidou often face restrictions, intimidation and worse. The Miao Guzang Festival – A Marathon in Eight Stages (December 11, 2012, Life on Nanchang Lu) Our visit to Guizhou Province, an extraordinarily beautiful part of China with steep green hills, silvery mists and winding rivers, just so happened to coincide with a really big deal […]
ZGBriefs | April 27, 2017
[…] bench. That Mr. Xi would become a delegate was a forgone conclusion, as is his second term as party leader and president. His choice of electoral constituency— Guizhou, one of China’s poorest provinces—was not. Chinese Media Is Subdued in the Face of North Korea-U.S. Standoff (April 22, 2017, The New York Times) Here is […]
A Foot Wide on the Edge of Nowhere
A Book Review
[…] The annual United Tribes Conference discussed the location of the Bible school and moved it around from time to time. Theo taught in Bible schools in Gebu, Guizhou and most of his time at Taogu Bible School. He also took part in other Short-Term Bible Schools being held by the minority churches. One aspect […]
ZGBriefs | July 25, 2024
[…] its first expressions. Pray for China July 21 (Pray for China: A Walk Through History) On July 21, 1882, Gen. Paul Zhang Zhijiang (张之江将军) was born in Guizhou. While serving in the military in Sichuan, Zhang was impressed by the anti-imperialist stand of believers there and chose to follow Christ. Throughout his life, he […]
ZGBriefs | August 10, 2017
[…] for investigation. Chinese Court Sentences Activist Who Documented Protests to 4 Years in Prison (August 4, 2017, The New York Times) Mr. Lu, a migrant worker from Guizhou Province in southwestern China, began using the internet to research and publish information about some of the tens of thousands of strikes, protests and riots across […]
August 8, 2014
[…] French photographer Bruno Barbey visited Sichuan province in 1980 as part of a trip in which he documented lives of everyday residents of Shanghai and Sichuan and Guizhou provinces. China exchange student drowns in pool of California host family (August 7, 2014, Reuters) An exchange student from China who recently arrived in the United […]
ZGBriefs | July 7, 2016
[…] Hundred Metre Aperture Spherical Telescope, or Fast, is the size of 30 football fields and has been cut out of a mountain in the south-western province of Guizhou. 10 million Android devices reportedly infected with Chinese malware (July 5, 2016, CNet) At least 10 million Android devices have been infected by malware called HummingBad, […]