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3 Reasons You Need to Read this Chinese Food Memoir

[…] you’ll want to add Shark’s Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-sour Memoir of Eating in China to your reading list for this year. Not for when you get to it, for this year. Culturally—food matters in China. Period. I could stop with my first point right there. Food matters in China, so reading about […]

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A Non-Cook Reviews 3 Chinese Cookbooks

[…] a fresh and radiant stir-fry of jade-green melon, dark green chives, and brilliant scarlet chili. (Revolutionary Chinese Cookbook: Recipes from Hunan Province) Cookbook Here we begin to get out of my depth, but I believe those of you who are interested in these cookbooks because you actually want to cook food and not just […]

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Of Returns and Runways

[…] and entered a time of what I have been describing as “wandering in the wilderness” without a clear direction for what was next for us. But I’m getting ahead of myself…. Why did we leave China in the first place? That is a difficult question to answer. As I wrote in the following excerpts […]

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Jesus: The Path to Human Flourishing

A Book Review

[…] analysis of the religions, Thomas also compares the values with the Biblical reality of shalom. She goes into detail as to what shalom is and what it isn’t, and how it can fulfill the cultural Chinese’s understanding of the world via a thorough explanation of harmonious relationships with God, with one another, and with […]

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7 Reasons I Liked “China: A History” (and 1 Warning)

[…] sense of “what is next.” It recreates a museum experience. For those of you who like to linger through exhibits and read every placard and information nug get, you will not be disappointed. For those of you who are like me and wish you were the kind of person who lingered because lingerers seem […]

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Off We Go

A Book Review

[…] your to-do list before moving to the field is “Prepare our kids.” While it’s a right and noble goal, it can feel big and nebulous so it gets moved from one week’s to-do list to another week’s to another . . . until now. You can put “Get Off We Go” on your list […]

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Being a Foreign Woman in China

Challenges and Blessings

[…] of the challenges that are specific to being a woman in China. My appearance was commented on more than it was coming from North America. Now, don’t get me wrong, North America can be no picnic when it comes to some people’s experiences. But in my case, I wasn’t used to so many comments […]

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How Can We Better Prepare People for the Field?

An Interview with Lauren Pinkston

An interview with Lauren Pinkston on preparing people for cross-cultural work. 

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Looming Transitions, the Back Story

Preparing to go overseas or getting ready to return to your passport country? This book is for you.

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One Last Summer Reading Recommendation

It’s September and the autumn semester has started for most students, but before the leaves start to turn and the temperature plunges, we have one more summer reading book recommendation for you.