I’ve been meaning to write about this for awhile, and there’s no better time than today, the first day of the Year of the Horse! One of my favorite Chinese expressions is mashang (马上), which can be translated as “immediately,” or “right away.” It is used to convey that something is about to happen. Q：Ni […]
Happy New Year, Beijing!
It’s New Year’s Eve in China, and if I were back in my old apartment in Beijing, this is what I would be witnessing as midnight approaches. (If you receive this post by email and cannot see the video, click here to watch it.) Kind of missing China this week. Here’s a round-up of articles […]
Mildred Cable: An Early Traveler in Northwest China
One of my favorite websites is the Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity, which posts short biographical sketches of famous Chinese Christians throughout history. Even though it focuses on Chinese Christians, they also include biographies of notable Western Christians. They recently posted a biographical sketch of Mildred Cable, an OMF missionary who travelled extensively in western […]
Measures, Counter-measures, and Hotel Stars
There is a Chinese saying: shang you zhengce, xia you duice （上有政策，下有对策). The top (leader) has its measures, the bottom (people) has its counter-measures. Or, to put it in plain English: The leaders make the policies, and the people find ways around them. (I wrote about this in an earlier post titled Measures, Counter-measures, and Filial […]
China on the Move – Visualized
January 31 is Chinese New Year, the first day of the new year on the lunar calendar. Because it is the most important holiday for spending time with family, the month-long “Spring Festival” sees a mass migration of people from their places of work or study in one part of the country to their hometowns […]
One More Photo
After the post on Tuesday remembering my dad, a friend who used to work with my parents in Pakistan sent me another fun photo. It is of my mom and dad (and my older sister), and Hu and Bettie (and their eldest son) on board a ship bound for Pakistan in 1956. Aren’t they two […]
