Tag Archives: Chengdu

2014 Ran Yunfei: “Zhuangzi As I See Him” 冉雲飛著《莊子我説》Preface

Posted on 12/10/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

I got to know Sichuan writer Ran Yunfei when I worked at U.S. Consulate General Chengdu 2007 – 2012. Ran Yunfei is a fine writer, scholar, and bon vivant.  Lately, studying the Zhuangzi in Chinese with some retired friends we have … Continue reading →

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2013 Ran Yunfei: Making Classical Chinese Texts Come Alive

Posted on 03/14/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

My five years at US Consulate General Chengdu (2007 – 2012) were enriched by getting to know Ran Yunfei. I knew Ran Yunfei as a man prolific in his writings, with a great appreciation for good food and drink, a … Continue reading →

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Rightist Memoir XLIV : Frustrated Engineer in 1990’s at Low Tech Chongqing Motorcycle-Car Enterprises

Posted on 07/04/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Find table of contents chapter links at Kong Lingping’s Rightist Memoir I: “Blood Chronicle” By Long-time Prisoner of Mao Zedong The full Chinese text can be downloaded from bannedbook.org  Chapter Ten: Working After Retirement Ma Gang originally was an ordinary cadre (ganbu) at … Continue reading →

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Rightist Memoir XXXIV: Love and Marriage

Posted on 06/26/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Find other chapters listed at Kong Lingping’s Rightist Memoir I: “Blood Chronicle” By Long-time Prisoner of Mao Zedong The full Chinese text can be downloaded from bannedbook.org  6. My First Love and Marriage  After settling the issue of my employment by starting work … Continue reading →

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2021: Reception of US SciFi in China; A Chinese SF Grandmaster — Ye Yonglie 叶永烈

Posted on 02/18/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Ye Yonglie (1940-2020) Chinese author and occasional film director, sometimes under the pen-names Ye Yang, Ye Ting, Xiao Yong or Jiu Yuan, whose output stretches to fifty volumes of material, of which twenty-four are listed as “works popularizing science”. A … Continue reading →

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2023 NPC Lectures: #2 NPC Standing Committee Organization and Procedures

Posted on 12/09/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

This is the second in a series of seven 2023 lectures given by Chinese officials or academics to the 170 members of the Standing Committee of the PRC National People’s Congress. The full 3000-strong NPC meets every March. The NPC, … Continue reading →

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2013: Canadian Missionaries in West China: Enriching Sources for Local History Research

Posted on 06/30/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Ran Yunfei 冉雲飛 in his 2019 review article on Wang Di and sources for the study of 19 and 20th century local history of Sichuan and Chengdu 【如何将二等题目做成一流学问】 examined how greater use of missionary publications such as “Huaxi Church News,” … Continue reading →

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2023: Harassment of Religious People — Chengdu — Autumn Rain Covenant Church Intercession Message

Posted on 02/19/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Ian Johnson’s 2017 book The Souls of China: The Return of Religion in China After Mao that discusses this Christian church in Chengdu and its persecution in considerable detail. For more on the Autumn Rain Covenant Church and its imprisoned … Continue reading →

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2022: Chengdu House Church Prays for Covid-Hit China and for Persecuted Church Members

Posted on 12/18/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Here is a translation of the weekly prayer for the week of December 18, 2022 of the Chengdu Autumn Rain Covenant Church. I knew the now-imprisoned leader of the Autumn Rain Covenant Church Reverend Wang Yi 王怡 when I served … Continue reading →

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2007: Ran Yunfei: Food During the 1959-61 Famine

Posted on 06/01/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Ran Yunfei is scholarly Chengdu writer who writes about education, society, history and literary topics. He has tried to avoid politics, but trying to write the truth about history and society easily gets writers into trouble with the Chinese Communist … Continue reading →

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