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Welcome to the China Compass Podcast! After a reminder as to why I am doing this podcast (0:44)), we begin by looking at China’s loosening of visa requirements for (most) foreigners (1:50)… https://skift.com/2024/06/17/china-expands-visa-waiver-program-list-more-countries-added/amp/ https://skift.com/2024/01/01/china-eases-visa-rules-for-u-s-tourists/ Next we look at the relative strength of China’s currency, the “yuan” or “RMB” and the drastic drop in expats working in China since the pandemic (9:02)… https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2024/06/13/chinas-currency-is-not-as-influential-as-once-imagined (Paywall) https://www.ft.com/content/dfd5c399-976f-4f0b-8a1b-fbac495100b6 CCP is brought to you by Pray for China. (Get daily prayer reminders on Insta or X: @chinaadventures) Today we are looking at Sichuan Province (16:43), which is matched up with central Texas for prayer: https://prayforchina.us/states/texas.html After an overview of beautiful Sichuan, its story time (25:00). I talk about one of the most interesting nights of my life, running from angry dogs, school principals, and my own conscience high up on the Tibetan Plateau. More info on Early Rain (Pastor Wang Yi): https://chinapartnership.org/early-rain-covenant-church/ More info on the Sichuan Earthquake: https://www.britannica.com/event/Sichuan-earthquake-of-2008 We conclude with this week’s China Compass Q&A about Chinese Cuisine (37:43)… https://www.chinasichuanfood.com/mala-chicken/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dapanji ***Check out all our various resources and activities... www.PrayGiveGo.us
Welcome to the China Compass Podcast! After a reminder as to why I am doing this podcast (0:44)), we begin by looking at China’s loosening of visa requirements for (most) foreigners (1:50)… https://skift.com/2024/06/17/china-expands-visa-waiver-program-list-more-countries-added/amp/ https://skift.com/2024/01/01/china-eases-visa-rules-for-u-s-tourists/ Next we look at the relative strength of China’s currency, the “yuan” or “RMB” and the drastic drop in expats working in China since the pandemic (9:02)… https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2024/06/13/chinas-currency-is-not-as-influential-as-once-imagined (Paywall) https://www.ft.com/content/dfd5c399-976f-4f0b-8a1b-fbac495100b6 CCP is brought to you by Pray for China. (Get daily prayer reminders on Insta or X: @chinaadventures) Today we are looking at Sichuan Province (16:43), which is matched up with central Texas for prayer: https://prayforchina.us/states/texas.html After an overview of beautiful Sichuan, its story time (25:00). I talk about one of the most interesting nights of my life, running from angry dogs, school principals, and my own conscience high up on the Tibetan Plateau. More info on Early Rain (Pastor Wang Yi): https://chinapartnership.org/early-rain-covenant-church/ More info on the Sichuan Earthquake: https://www.britannica.com/event/Sichuan-earthquake-of-2008 We conclude with this week’s China Compass Q&A about Chinese Cuisine (37:43)… https://www.chinasichuanfood.com/mala-chicken/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dapanji ***Check out all our various resources and activities... www.PrayGiveGo.us
In this episode, John speaks to Professor Dave Petley, the new Vice-Chancellor at the University of Hull. Their conversation centres of Dave's work on landslides, their relationship to earthquakes, the evolution of slopes and how they can be better taught in the classroom. Dave has a wealth of knowledge, recounting his work in Taiwan as well as discussing events like the Sichuan Earthquake in 2008 and its after-effects. Follow Prof. Petley on Twitter here. Sign up for the Inaugural Lecture here. Watch the lecture Things are going downhill fast: Understanding massive landslides here. Follow Prof. Petley's blog here. Series 11 of GeogPod is kindly sponsored by Hodder Education. Hodder Education work with expert authors to produce the very best Key Stage 3, GCSE and A-level Geography resources for you and your students, and on their website, you'll discover exam board approved textbooks, revision guides, teaching support and more.
Learn words from the recent Sichuan Earthquake News with sentence examples from the news contents. My email: Teacher-yang@hotmail.com
Sichuan has activated the highest level of emergency response for a 6.8-magnitude earthquake that jolted Luding County at noon on Monday. The quake has claimed nearly 90 lives as of Thursday. We examine what has been done to save people and how the emergency response system works at the community level.
Today I welcome Professor Bin (HSU) Xu to discuss COVID-19 and the legacy of the Sichuan Earthquake in China, alongside cultures of mourning around the world today. Bin Xu is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Emory University. His research interests lie at the intersection of politics and culture, including collective memory, civil society, cultural sociology, and social theory. He is the author of The Politics of Compassion: The Sichuan Earthquake and Civic Engagement in China (Stanford, 2017), which won the 2018 Best Book Prize for Culture and Honorable Mention for Asia from the American Sociological Association, and Chairman Mao's Children: Generation and the Politics of Memory in China (Cambridge, forthcoming in 2021). His articles have appeared in leading sociological and China studies journals. He is working on his third book The Culture of Democracy: A Sociological Approach to Civil Society (under contract with Polity Press, UK) and two ongoing projects pertaining to mourning, commemorations, and symbolic politics of the COVID-19 crisis.
On this episode of The Zweig Letter podcast, we sit down with Dr. Kit Miyamoto from Miyamoto International. Dr. Kit shared his origin story with us, which included coming from Tokyo to the United States with a desire to play football for the Dallas Cowboys ultimately. This conversation would have been super interesting if he had made the team, but I believe the world is a better and safer place because he didn't. Learn more about Dr. Kit, Miyamoto International, Miyamoto Relief, and his desire to make buildings worldwide stronger, safer, and earthquake resistant. Mentioned in this Episode: Loma Prieta Earthquake 1989 Northridge Earthquake 1994 Sichuan Earthquake 2008 Haiti Earthquake 2010 Nepal Earthquake 2015 New Madrid Area Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari Get in Touch with Dr. Kit Miyamoto: Dr. Kit Miyamoto Email Dr. Kit on LinkedIn Dr. Kit on Twitter Miyamoto International Miyamoto Relief Miyamoto Relief on Facebook Get your FREE Subscription to the Zweig Letter Newsletter.
Friends. May 12th is a day to remember the Sichuan Earthquake that has killed thousands in Sichuan and grieved many families across China, my own family included. The earthquake has taken away so many lives so we wanted to make this day a day of remembrance of their lives which is precious to us. Do you also know that their blood is precious to God? Ps. 72 shows us a righteous king who defends the poor and helps the oppressed. As long as the sun rise, and moon shines, the Lord king reigns forever for his people. How did he become our king? Unless any tyrant who oppresses and threatens, he shed his own blood for his people so that they will never need to. Our king gave us righteousness and protection through his blood. I enjoy reading this Psalm. I invite you to read it with me. Be blessed. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/yaping-li/support
Production team:Host : Maria XenidouProducer: Julie-Roxane KrikorianIntroduction Voice: David Bourne Contact us:impactlearningpodcast@gmail.com Music credits:Like Lee performed by The Mini VandalsTransition sounds: Swamp Walks performed by Jingle Punks Where to find Nikki James and Practera:On LinkedInPractera Mentioned in this episode:Constructive Alignment Design Theory on WikipediaJohn Biggs, the lead thinker on this theory Listen to this episode and explore: Nikki’s childhood: studying ballet, giving to the community and staying focused on her education (3:33)Getting a bachelor’s degree in health science (8:16)Nikki’s first job as an outdoor educator (10:34)Becoming a youth manager at a charity in Australia (11:30)Building public-speaking skills and learning about social justice (12:50)Setting-up a volunteering branch in China after the Sichuan Earthquake (15:52)What Nikki learnt about herself in China (20:47)Returning to Australia to develop volunteering programs for university students (22:00)Her trip to Tanzania that changed everything (24:24)Joining Practera as an Instructional Designer (28:30)Practera: an experiential learning online platform (30:36)Using collaborative project learning to scale experiential learning and help students develop 21st-century skills (32:34)What goes into designing an experiential learning experience that creates the desired outcomes (36:14)How Nikki leverages experts when designing an experiential learning experience (38:52)The business model of Practera: who covers the cost of the programs (41:23)How experiential programs work for the students (42:15)How Practera matches the students with the industry professionals and their projects (43:29)Creating an ecosystem where students, educators and industry professionals collaborate (45:03)What the program managers’ role is at Practera (47:51)How to get involved with Practera as an educator (48:58)Who the mentors are and how they support students (51:26)How Practera triggers reflective learning for the students (53:28)Practera programs: a combination of online and in-person activities (55:43)Nikki’s reflection on scaling the impact of her work while dreaming of making the Practera technology available in low-resource economies (57:29)Nikki’s PhD in Education: aggregating learning data analytics and learning theories in the experiential learning field (59:34)How Nikki sees the future of experiential learning (1:01:40)
This week on Sinica, Kaiser and Jeremy speak with Christian Sorace, assistant professor of political science at Colorado College. The three discuss his book, Shaken Authority: China’s Communist Party and the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake, which analyzes the ways the Communist Party uses rhetoric to serve its interests, the consequences of this endeavor for the region and survivors of the quake, and the urbanization of China’s rural areas. Christian spent a year and a half in the region starting in 2012, conducting fieldwork in affected areas via open-ended interviews, ethnographic observations, meetings with leaders of non-governmental organizations and scholars, and analysis of hundreds of pages of internal Party reports. What to listen for this week on the Sinica Podcast: 13:10: Sorace explains why, for a short time in the aftermath of the quake, some perceived the seeds of civil society to be growing: “This activity was limited to a short window of the rescue period in which lives were at stake and time was of the essence. And after this short window of rescue, the reconstruction phase begins, and then the picture changes entirely and top-down control was reasserted.” 18:03: Sorace elaborates on the role of gratitude education (感恩教育活动 gǎn ēn jiàoyù huódong) in shaping perceptions of post-earthquake reconstruction: “Officials would talk about gratitude education as a way of ‘removing psychological obstacles, and returning overly emotional people to a reasonable and rational state,’ so there’s also a kind of control element here.” He then elaborates on the haunting similarities between what happened in the aftermath of the earthquake and the horrors that are occurring now in Xinjiang. 26:32: “Over 7.7 million square meters of urban space was built in the reconstruction. Fifty percent of their entire rural population were moved into cities, so this is a massive expansion of urban space.” Christian reflects on the concept of “utopian urbanization” and his time living in these newly built apartments that housed disaster victims. 39:11: Superfluous slogans, turgid language... Can anything of value truly be gleaned from official language coming from the Chinese state? Sorace explains the significance of rhetoric in understanding the Communist Party: “…to dismiss everything that the Communist Party says, as this empty propaganda actually makes everything that’s going on in China actually much harder to understand. And if we pay close attention and train [our] sensitivity to listening to this ‘Party-speak,’ it actually can tell us quite a bit about what’s going on.” Recommendations: Jeremy: The Epic of Gilgamesh, by father and son duo Kevin and Kent Dixon, a graphic novel version of the original epic. Kaiser: The Vietnam War, by Ken Burns. Christian: Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness, by Peter Godfrey Smith, a look at the nature and evolution of consciousness.
Amidst various commentaries on the 10th anniversary of the Sichuan earthquake, this past summer, a prominent theme has been the sense of possibility for civil society in China that was initially generated by the outpouring of social volunteerism, unprecedented in Chinese history, which followed the disaster. That earlier optimism about civil society appears less robust in China today, within an overall context of further tightening of the space for independent social organizations and advocacy in recent years. In this episode, Emory University sociologist Bin Xu discusses with Neysun Mahboubi the general landscape of civil society and civic engagement in China, through the particular lens of his widely celebrated new book on the Sichuan earthquake. The episode was recorded on February 22, 2018. Bin Xu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Emory University. His book, “The Politics of Compassion: the Sichuan Earthquake and Civic Engagement in China,” published by Stanford University Press, combines cultural sociology with extensive interviews to examine how engaged citizens acted on the ground in the aftermath of the earthquake, how they understood the meaning of their actions, and how the wider political context shaped both. Reviewed as “riveting, provocative, and ultimately heart breaking,” and as “required reading for all students of contemporary Chinese society and politics,” the book has been awarded the Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book in the Sociology of Culture from the American Sociological Association (2018). In addition to this book, Prof. Xu’s work has appeared in many of the leading journals in sociology and China studies. He also was selected as one of 21 Public Intellectuals in the likewise named fellowship program of the National Committee on US-China Relations for 2016-18. Music credit: "Salt" by Poppy Ackroyd, follow her at http://poppyackroyd.com Special thanks to Nick Marziani and Justin Melnick
A decade on, we return to the scene of one of China's worst natural disasters.
Episode 73 - Lisa R. LaDue, MSW, LCSW Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund are honored to have as our guest, Lisa R. LaDue, MSW, LCSW. A mix of clinical social worker, firefighter, teacher, and mass fatalities subject matter expert, Lisa LaDue brings a unique perspective to social work and disaster response. She is currently employed by a global humanitarian NGO addressing the healthcare needs of communities affected by emergencies and poverty. Lisa LaDue received her B.A. and M.S.W. degrees from the University of Iowa and is a licensed clinical social worker in Colorado and Texas. She has developed numerous training curricula related to disaster mental health, trauma, and mass fatalities, delivering them around the world to diverse audiences. Lisa is the owner and director of the National Mass Fatalities Institute, which she co-founded in 2000. She has created the comprehensive curricula for the Institute, provides and delivers it with other trainers throughout the United States. She is an active member of the Victim Information Center Team, a disaster response component of the National Disaster Medical System, deployed to interview and support families directly affected by catastrophic mass casualty and mass fatality incidents. In her home community, Lisa is a member of the volunteer fire department, responding to structure and wildland fires, medical calls, and motor vehicle accidents in a rural, mountain community. Lisa is a member of Team Rubicon and has functioned in several leadership roles for multiple disaster response operations since 2014. Lisa has served in many roles responding to disasters, including: * September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, as a Red Cross Disaster Mental Health Coordinator at the Pentagon and the Pentagon Family Assistance Center. * November 2001, as a Red Cross disaster mental health services on New York's Staten Island. * January 2005, in Thailand with a team of trauma specialists using Somatic Experiencing© with traumatized tsunami survivors. * June 2005, as the co-leader of a team of trauma specialists to Tamil Nadu, India, providing trauma recovery training and services for tsunami survivors . * August 2005, with Iowa-1 Disaster Medical Assistance Team (IA1-DMAT) to Bay St. Louis, Mississippi where the team maintained a field hospital for hurricane survivors. * February 2006, with a Trauma Outreach Team to New Orleans providing training to New Orleans Fire Department peer counselors and others involved in Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts. * July 2008, providing training for providers working directly with survivors of the Sichuan Earthquake. * Lisa spent 6 months during 4 trips to Nepal following the 2014 Earthquake. Best of all, Lisa is the mother of Sarah and Ross LaDue, two amazing individuals. Note: Guests create their own bio description for each episode. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is hosted and produced by Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund. Please visit our website for more information: thecuriosityhourpodcast.com Please visit this page for information where you can listen to our podcast: thecuriosityhourpodcast.com/listen/ If you would like to share your story or have a suggested guest, please complete the "Contact us" form: thecuriosityhourpodcast.com/contact-us/ Disclaimers: The Curiosity Hour Podcast may contain content not suitable for all audiences. Listener discretion advised. The views and opinions expressed by the guests on this podcast are solely those of the guest(s). These views and opinions do not necessarily represent those of The Curiosity Hour Podcast. This podcast may contain explicit language.
On this week s show, we re having a full on East Asian culinary exploration. We begin by commemorating the 10 year anniversary of the Sichuan Earthquake with former AP reporter Audra Ang, author of To The People, Food is Heaven. Audra shares what it was like to be there in the aftermath of such a catastrophic event. Then, we ll learn the history of Chinese restaurants in the U.S. with U.C. Irvine professor, Yong Chen. Chen s book, Chop Suey, USA, follows the history of Chinese cuisine in America from the first four restaurants in California during the Gold Rush, to the nearly 50 thousand Chinese restaurants found across the country today. Next, we speak with Chinese cooking teacher and author, Hsiao Ching Chou. Her book, Chinese Soul Food, offers recipes for beloved Chinese restaurant dishes like pork spare ribs and chili wontons which she demystifies using ingredients you re likely to already have in your pantry. Finally, we bend the rules and blur the lines on where Southeast Asia ends and South Louisiana begins with Michael Gulotta, whose New Orleans Market District restaurant Maypop boasts a delectable weekend dim sum brunch. So start the rice cooker and get out your chopsticks for this week s edition of Louisiana Eats For more of all things Louisiana Eats, be sure to visit us at PoppyTooker.com.
On 12 May 2008, a 7.9-magnitude earthquake hit Wenchuan in Sichuan, claiming more than 85,000 lives, many of them schoolchildren whose classrooms collapsed. It was a paradoxical moment of great tragedy and great hope, with a new sense of openness and civil society emerging in the quake's immediate aftermath. A decade on, its legacy has proved much darker including Great Leap Forward style urbanisation drives and an entrenchment of stability maintenance. In 2008, during the brief window of openness, Louisa reported on the quake for NPR. In March of this year, she convened a panel on the Sichuan Earthquake at the Association for Asian Studies in Washington D.C., featuring Colorado College's Christian Sorace, Georgia State University's Maria Repnikova, Emory University's Xu Bin and Yi Kang from Hong Kong Baptist University. A special issue of Made In China was also produced to mark the anniversary http://www.chinoiresie.info/PDF/Made-in-China-01-2018.pdf.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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On May 12, 2008, a massive earthquake rocked central Sichuan, killing 87,000 people and leaving five million homeless in the second worst natural disaster in China’s modern history (the first was the Tangshan earthquake of 1976). As news of the event spread, hundreds of thousands of volunteers poured into Sichuan from all over China to help wherever they were needed. Many cooked, cleaned, and cared for survivors, but the sudden explosion of civic engagement also led to more politically oriented activities, as the magnitude of the tragedy forced an emotional confrontation with the deeper causes of the destruction beyond the violence of the quake itself. In a new book The Politics of Compassion: The Sichuan Earthquake and Civic Engagement in China, sociologist and China expert Bin Xu examines the ways in which civic engagement unfolded in the aftermath of the earthquake, and what these developments reveal about China’s evolving civil society. Drawing on extensive interviews and documentary research, Dr. Xu challenges many of the popular narratives about the national outpouring of compassion, and illustrates the tension between volunteering and activism. Dr. Xu joined the National Committee on January 31, 2018, for a discussion of his book and China’s civil society with NCUSCR Vice President Jan Berris. Bin Xu is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at Emory University. His research interests lie at the intersection of politics and culture. He is currently writing a book on the collective memory of China’s “educated youth” (zhiqing) generation—the 17 million Chinese youth sent down to the countryside in the 1960s and 1970s. His research has appeared in leading sociology and China studies journals, including Theory & Society, Sociological Theory, Social Problems, Social Psychology Quarterly, China Quarterly, and The China Journal. Dr. Xu is a fellow in the National Committee’s Public Intellectuals Program.
On May 12, 2008, a massive earthquake rocked central Sichuan, killing 87,000 people and leaving five million homeless in the second worst natural disaster in China’s modern history (the first was the Tangshan earthquake of 1976). As news of the event spread, hundreds of thousands of volunteers poured into Sichuan from all over China to help wherever they were needed. Many cooked, cleaned, and cared for survivors, but the sudden explosion of civic engagement also led to more politically oriented activities, as the magnitude of the tragedy forced an emotional confrontation with the deeper causes of the destruction beyond the violence of the quake itself. In a new book The Politics of Compassion: The Sichuan Earthquake and Civic Engagement in China, sociologist and China expert Bin Xu examines the ways in which civic engagement unfolded in the aftermath of the earthquake, and what these developments reveal about China’s evolving civil society. Drawing on extensive interviews and documentary research, Dr. Xu challenges many of the popular narratives about the national outpouring of compassion, and illustrates the tension between volunteering and activism. Dr. Xu joined the National Committee on January 31, 2018, for a discussion of his book and China’s civil society with NCUSCR Vice President Jan Berris. Bin Xu is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at Emory University. His research interests lie at the intersection of politics and culture. He is currently writing a book on the collective memory of China’s “educated youth” (zhiqing) generation—the 17 million Chinese youth sent down to the countryside in the 1960s and 1970s. His research has appeared in leading sociology and China studies journals, including Theory & Society, Sociological Theory, Social Problems, Social Psychology Quarterly, China Quarterly, and The China Journal. Dr. Xu is a fellow in the National Committee’s Public Intellectuals Program.
Limitless has teamed up with Epermarket to bring you Allergy Awareness Week, and in this episode we're going to tackle household allergens with experts from PureLiving, Kellie Henry and Graeme McLeish. Kellie just celebrated her 6-year China-versary, arriving in Shanghai in April 2009 and has been working with PureLiving for 3 and a half years. Her partner in crime here, Graeme. has been in China for nearly nine years and has experience working in NGOs including an energy consultancy in London and for the Red Cross following the Sichuan Earthquake in 2008. He has been with PureLiving for the past 3 years and has recently become a Certified Indoor Environmental Consultant. In this show, Kellie and Graeme teach us how to prevent and treat household allergens that are common to homes in China—focusing primarily on mold, pollen, dander and–eeeek, my least fav–cockroaches! (Who knew people were allergic to cockroaches!?)
Denise Ho, assistant professor of history and historian of modern China, recently interviewed guest lecturer Eugene Wang, Abbey Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art at Harvard University, who came to UK as part of the Year of China Initiative. Professor Wang discusses contemporary Chinese artists diverging from China's national narrative in the wake of the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake. This podcast was produced by Cheyenne Hohman.
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