ChinaEncounters: Posts from June 2009

About China Encounters

Peter and Anne Adams are spending this Olympic Season in China. While there they will be writing regularly on things they see and do, people they talk to, and news articles they read. They will be trying to provide a different take on things from that which often comes across in the media. Read more about them and their thought about China on About China Encounters

Posts from June 2009

June 24, 2009

Shanghai Fantasia: Chinese acrobatic troupe

A must!

Shanghai Fantasia: Chinese acrobatic troupe - Shanghaiist.

Brilliant, and the photos are as well!

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June 04, 2009

Through the Looking Glass: China's Foreign Journalist from Opium Wars to Mao

Books: Through the Looking Glass: China's Foreign Journalist from Opium Wars to Mao - Shanghaiist: News, Music, Nightlife, Restaurants, Events and More in Shanghai, China.

Shanghai-based journalist Paul French's latest book is one that ought to excite all you ol' Shanghai history buffs (and press nostalgists as well) - an examination of the convulsive history of the China press corps between the 1820s and leading up to the revolution of 1949.

Amongst those heady hundred odd years, editors engaged in sword weilding duels, reporters drank and philandered and entered into sordid affairs, and some even brawled... over issues like how to properly report on Mao's revolution. ... ( continued here)

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Pray for China

We are encouraging people to Engage positively with China during this Olympic year . And as Christians we are encouraging Christians to Pray for China in the same way. Check out the blog.