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I'm currently reading Richard Burger's book Behind the Red Door: Sex in China. It is a very interesting look at a subject that is rarely discussed with expats (or anyone else).
Tag Archives: Hefei
Ten-Year Old Girl Appeals for Help from China’s First Lady
In my recent blog “Lock Up and Lock Down” about crackdowns on dissidents and activists during the Two Meetings, I mentioned an incident about a ten-year-old girl whose father is a dissident in Hefei, Anhui (安徽合肥): “In a particularly egregious … Continue reading
Sheng Shuren: A Journalist in New China – Part 4 – The Great Leap Forward and Propaganda
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 I almost forgot; I had been to Shanghai before. It was the Chinese New Year of 1990, I decided spontaneously to go to a friend’s home to spend the holidays. On New Year’s Eve, … Continue reading
Posted in history, Life in China
Tagged China, Chinese New Year, Great Leap Forward, Hefei, History, journalism, propaganda, Shanghai, United States, Xinhua News Agency
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An Epidemic in Lu Chow Fu – A glimpse of mission work in 1900′s China
I’ve been working on transcribing the diary of a missionary doctor who lived in Hefei (then called Lu Chow Fu) around the turn of the century. This passage, written by the doctor’s wife, struck me as particularly interesting for several … Continue reading
Posted in history
Tagged China, Christian, death, Disease, Hefei, History, Malaria, mission work, Missionary, Quinine
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