ZGBriefs The Weeks Top Picks, January 30 Issue
Our top picks this week are all over the map, so to speak, covering religion, politics, and the perils of language learning!
周寧現任華源協作夥伴關係與中國事工副總裁,並擔任《每週中國快訊》(ZGBriefs)編輯。
加入華源協作之前,周寧曾在中國工作 28 年,期間擔任過英語教師、語言學生及專案主任,也為在中國工作的機構與企業提供跨文化培訓。她曾在明尼蘇達州的西北大學(University of Northwestern–St. Paul)教授中文,並在惠頓學院(Wheaton College)及泰勒大學(Taylor University)教授中國文化與溝通。
周寧擁有西北大學社會科學學士學位,以及聖湯瑪斯大學(University of St. Thomas)教學碩士學位。
周寧著有 Survival Chinese Lessons 和 The Bells Are Not Silent: Stories of Church Bells in China 兩本書。
周寧也經營個人部落格 Outside-In(joannpittman.com),分享對中國、明尼蘇達州、旅行,以及「如何在不屬於自己的地方好好生活」等主題的觀察與思考。
讀者也可以透過 X(@jkpittman)及 Facebook(@authorjoannpittman)關注周寧的動態。
周寧目前定居美國明尼蘇達州新布萊頓(New Brighton)。
Our top picks this week are all over the map, so to speak, covering religion, politics, and the perils of language learning!
In the historical news department, the Catholic news service UCA recently wrote about the discovery of a gravesite in Henan Province that is believed to be a burial site of the Nestorians, the earliest Christians to reach China in the Tang Dynasty.
Let's call it "video week" at ZGB because my top picks this week are all video reports on some fairly pressing contemporary social issues, each of them ripples of China's one-child policy.
Thirty years ago, I set off for what I thought would be a one-year teaching stint in China. Twenty-eight years later, I moved back to the States. Either I'm really bad at math or that was one very long year.
These three articles caught my attention while compiling ZGBriefs this week.
This week's must-read stories from the editor of ZGBriefs
I recently ran across a post called "Pagan Practice in China's Shanxi Province," which included some intriguing photos of traditional customs.
Three stories caught our eye this week, two serious, and one that will make you want to don all of your winter clothes, grab your camera, and head to Harbin, China.
To come up with the list of the Top Ten Most Read articles on ChinaSource this year, we took the top five from the ChinaSource Quarterly and the top five from the ChinaSource Blog. Here they are:
Since it's the end of the year, we decided to jump on the "Top Posts" bandwagon that is careening through the blogosphere. However, since each ZGBriefs post includes dozens of stories, we are highlighting here the top ten most clicked links of the year in other words, your favorite stories.
What do Christmas, the one-child policy, and high end art collecting have in common? They are all subjects of the articles we selected as among the most interesting for this week.
Over the weekend there was another deadly attack in Xinjiang Province, in which 16 people were killed.