The Ji Village News

Category: EastWest

  • Migrant workers’ rally

    Migrant workers held major rallies across the US on May 1st. May 1st is Labor Day for a lot of countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and some European countries. China calls May 1st International Labor’s Day (I suspect a few other countries give it the same name) and people usually get the day off.…

  • Warn me before you start cracking jokes

    When I was a senior in high school, I went through an extracurricular British English textbook called New Concept English (I am translating the title back into English from its Chinese title. So this may not be its original English title. I think the book is from the UK.). I couldn’t remember all details of…

  • The year of the Yao

    I rented and watched The Year of The Yao from Netflix recently. It was a documentary of Yao Ming’s rookie season. We all enjoyed it. I have great admiration for Yao Ming. When he came to the NBA, he was just 22 years old, with language, cultural, and social barriers to overcome, not to mention…

  • Ji Village will get running water soon

    I talked to my mom today. She told me that my hometown, the Ji Village, will have running water soon. Isn’t that amazing? When I was growing up, my hometown was your typical Chinese village: no paved road, no electricity, no tv, no cars, even tractors were rare. In fact, if for whatever reason, a…

  • Interesting reading on China, media, and censorship

    Here are some links to a few very interesting entries on China, media, and censorship. Bingfeng has a piece on PBS’ Frontline discussion with his own comment. He updated his entry with a reader’s comment. That comment was from me, so you kind of know where I stand 🙂 By the way, I couldn’t leave…