Archive for the ‘Asia’ Category
A hybrid port city on the coast of China: Shanghai, good and bad
The financial district of Shanghai, view from the Bund on the other side of the river
Rev. Young John Allen, the man I spent last semester studying, was a foreigner living in Shanghai in the second half of the nineteenth century. In his day, the city was the only port open to the outside, although more [...]
Discovering, India
A visit to the East, one of many rich, inspiring locales.
There are many places in the world counted as historically valuable and culturally rich, places that inspire, bewilder, and enchant every generation who discovers them in their own way. And the experience is different for each person, different for the native resident, different for the [...]
Danger and escape along the Tumen River: North Korean refugees, the struggle to survive, and the effort to tell their story
Laura Ling and Euna Lee must have quite a story. What they have recently published, in the form of an Op/ed in the LA Times, is a brief explanation of their reason for being in that part of the world, and a narrative description of how and what happened when they were detained by North [...]
September 8th, 2009