Joann Pittman

周宁

周宁现任华源协作伙伴关系与中国事工副总裁，并担任《每周中国快讯》（ZGBriefs）编辑。

加入华源协作之前，周宁曾在中国工作 28 年，期间担任过英语教师、语言学习者及项目主任，也为在中国工作的机构与企业提供跨文化培训。她曾在明尼苏达州的西北大学（University of Northwestern–St. Paul）教授中文，并在惠顿学院（Wheaton College）及泰勒大学（Taylor University）教授中国文化与沟通。

周宁拥有西北大学社会科学学士学位，以及圣托马斯大学（University of St. Thomas）教学硕士学位。

周宁著有 Survival Chinese Lessons 和 The Bells Are Not Silent: Stories of Church Bells in China 两本书。

周宁也经营个人博客 Outside-In（joannpittman.com），分享对中国、明尼苏达州、旅行，以及“如何在不属于自己的地方好好生活”等主题的观察与思考。

读者也可以通过 X（@jkpittman）及 Facebook（@authorjoannpittman）关注周宁的动态。

周宁目前定居美国明尼苏达州新布赖顿（New Brighton）。

最新文章

Catholic or Christian?

When I first went to China, I was bombarded with many odd (to me anyway) questions: can you use chopsticks? How much money do you make? Why do American parents kick their children out of the house at age 18? On and on they went.

But I'll never forget the time a student asked me, "What's the difference between Catholic and Christian?"

• 2013年10月23日 •

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中国的在线信徒群体

中国基督徒使用互联网的自由度，其实要比一般的估计较高。本文作者缕述网民数目，信徒网址及连结的网页等，将个中三昧为读者娓娓道来。

• 2013年10月13日 •

ZGBriefs The Weeks Top Picks, October 11 Issue

Today we are starting a new feature, linking this blog with another of our publications, the ZGBriefs Newsletter. Every Friday, we will highlight articles from the ZGBriefs newsletter that we consider the "must read" articles of the week.

• 2013年10月11日 •

How Many Catholics in China?

Last weekend I had the privilege of attending the 25th National Catholic China Conference at Loyola University in Chicago. The United States Catholic China Conference sponsored the conference and the theme was "The American Catholic Church and China in an Era of Globalization."

• 2013年10月10日 •

Visa, Visa, Whos Got the Visa?

After a summer of confusion, China's new visa regulations went into effect on September 1st. New visa categories have been added and requirements for some existing categories have been changed.

• 2013年9月4日 •

Is China Safe?

This is a common question that folks who live and work in China are asked. I often reply that I feel very safe in China, except when I'm crossing a street or hurtling through town in a taxi being driven by a sleepy driver.

However, a perusal of recent stories out of China in recent months might give the impression of peril at every turn: stabbings in Beijing and Shenzhen by mentally deranged individuals; a man trying to blow himself up at the Beijing airport. Add to these the seemingly never-ending list of food safety scandals: contaminated milk powder; fake mutton, beef, and honey; glow-in-the-dark pork; and thousands of dead pigs floating in the river in Shanghai.

• 2013年8月2日 •

Measures, Counter-measures, and Filial Piety

The Chinese have a saying: "shang you zhengce, xia you duice." A fairly literal translation is "the top adopts measures and the bottom adopts counter-measures. A more colloquial way of putting it is "the leaders make the policies and the people find a way around them."

 

 

• 2013年7月11日 •

Chinese Dreaming

For the past few months I have had the song "California Dreaming'" stuck in my head. I blame Chinese president Xi Jinping and his propagation of the notion of a "Chinese Dream."

• 2013年5月18日 •

Lu Lingzi’s Dream

On April 15, 2 home-made bombs exploded at the Boston Marathon, killing three and injuring dozens. One of those killed was 23-year old Lu Lingzi, a graduate student at Boston University. She and her friend were waiting near the finish line when the bombs exploded.

• 2013年4月27日 •