China’s Olympic Pride (& Propaganda) / 1st Trip to China (22 Yrs Ago This Week) [China Compass]
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4.7 • 957 Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the China Compass Podcast on the Fight Laugh Feast Network! I’m your host & China travel guide, missionary Ben. You can follow me on X (@chinaadventures), where I post daily details and reminders to pray for China (PrayforChina.us). You can also email me with any questions or comments @ bfwesten at gmail dot com, which is my pen name. If you want to learn more about our missions projects or get any one of my books, visit PrayGiveGo.us.
This week, I'm trying to get back into my “normal” podcast schedule, as I comment on current events from a Chinese perspective, highlight one particular Chinese province to pray for, and then finish by telling a bunch of stories from my experiences in that particular province.
So we start by discussing China's Olympic pride and propaganda, dating back to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and turning to the current medal competition with the United States. Here are the NPR articles that I referenced...
https://www.npr.org/2024/08/09/nx-s1-5068021/olympic-medal-count-paris-gold-silver-bronze-total
https://www.npr.org/2024/08/02/nx-s1-5061584/china-paris-olympic-gold-medal-count
Next we look in depth at the Chinese province of Jiangxi, which is paired up with Georgia in our Pray for China prayer scheme (https://prayforchina.us/index.php/georgia/). Hot, humid, hilly, located in SE China and and only slightly larger than Georgia, Jiangxi was the early hideout (aka, Jiangxi Soviet) of the the Communist guerillas (led by Mao) in the 1920s and 30s, as well as home to the important Lushan Hill Station, which was built by missionaries in the late 19th Century, but served as a de facto southern capital for the Communist Part for many years during Mao's reign.
Finally, during story time I talk about turning 19 on the streets of Jiangxi's capital, Nanchang. I share about our encounters with police (and a sheep!) in Yiyang and Lianhua, getting taken for a (yummy) ride in Ji’an, oversleeping on a wooden bed, walking circles around Ganzhou, and wading through the Dingnan floods all while "running from the light".
As I mention on the podcast, get your copy of Borden of Yale (free on Kindle!), who visited northern Jiangxi in the fall of 1904 at the age of just 16, and tells a few stories himself: BordenofYale.com
Transcript
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| 0:20.0 | Welcome to the China Compass Podcast on the Fight Laugh Feast network. I'm your host in China Travel Guide, Missionary Ben. You can follow me on X at China Adventures. |
| 0:24.1 | At China Adventures, that's two A's there in the middle, |
| 0:26.3 | no space, no underscore, at China Adventures, |
| 0:29.4 | where I post daily details and reminders |
| 0:31.9 | to pray for China. I'm going through all the different |
| 0:34.9 | provinces of China every month and focusing each month on a different level of |
| 0:40.4 | city going from the largest cities down to the smaller cities in each province each month so we've already gone through |
| 0:46.1 | hundreds of cities this year that most people have never even heard of and we're just praying that |
| 0:50.7 | God would save China and that God would bring revival and that the church would grow and be protected and continue to conquer the communists in China one by one and sold by soul, city by city, county by county, all of those things. |
| 1:04.2 | You can also email me with any questions or comments you might have at B.F. Weston, that's with an E, |
| 1:11.0 | W. E. Sd E.N at g-M-G-M-G-M-G-M-G-M-G-M-G-M-G-M-T-M-E-S-T-N at G-M-G-M-N-G-M-N-G-M-G-M-G-N-G-G-O-G-N-G-O-G-G-G-O-G-G But I use that just because I want to publish some things and work on some things, but I don't want to be a known quantity back in China where I lived for many, many years. |
| 1:27.5 | And so I'm just trying to do a little bit to keep that |
| 1:39.0 | prying researchers in China at some point when I want to apply for a visa again if they let me get a visa ever again. If you want to learn more about our missionary projects, our prayer projects that we're promoting and doing, or get any one of the books that I've either written or mostly edited, missionary biographies and such, |
| 1:50.0 | visit praygivego.US. It's got a list of different things real easy to access all the different things from |
| 1:57.6 | that site little summaries and whatnot and you can find all of these links |
| 2:01.0 | I've just mentioned in the show notes. |
| 2:03.6 | I will be at Grace Agenda in Moscow, Idaho coming up next week. |
| 2:08.8 | Registration I've heard is already full, but if you are already planning to come, you can find me there at my table in the small |
| 2:15.4 | exhibition hall area there look out for the pray for China or the China compass |
| 2:20.7 | signs they'll probably be some of both there at the table. Also don't forget to make |
| 2:24.9 | plans to attend the Prodigal America Conference in Fort Worth on Reformation weekend from October 31st to November 2nd. |
| 2:31.6 | I hope to be there as well with my own table and I'm looking |
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