Missionaries and Tourists

...is the title of a new post at tiandi.info. Here’s the description from the news feed:

Those with the missionary spirit are greatly appreciated in the Chinese field, but there is a saying that “everybody hates a tourist.”

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A Sacrifice

This recent post on the PandaGator blog offers a personal experience about an interesting concrete example of the kinds of sacrifices and adjustments some make to further their service in the Chinese field.

For those for whom English is not their native tongue, this dictionary page tells us that “nuts” does not necessarily mean “insane; crazy”, since another meaning is “extremely enthusiastic”.