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China Express
by Ng Sauw Tjhoi
Radio reporter Ng Sauw Tjhoi, Belgian and member of the Hakka ethnic group in China, returns to his roots and reports on the many and fast metamorphoses of China. With the speed of a Chinese bullet train, Tjhoi writes down his experiences and impressions of Chinese labour - his favourite theme -, of the rescue operations after the devastating earthquake of May 2008, of the new role of Chinese media, of the unexpected large presence of Muslims in China, and so on.
The author looks for open minds who tell freely what they are up to and what they dream of. CCTV journalist Li Bing, for example, or Wang Kang, who informs immigrants on the Chinese labour laws; Kuang Ai Yung who got poisoned in a chemical factory and who is now a women’s rights activist; Lu Zhaowen, chairman of the Bureau for Environmental Protection; Zhang Jing Yi, who works for a syndicate in Urumgi, and many more.
Ng Sauw Tjhoi travels along the ancient Silk Roads and freeway G312 to the western, poorer Xinjiang, where Uigurs live together with Chinese and where few journalists wander. He visits many parts: Suzhou, Xi’an, Lanzhou, Dunhuang, Jaohe, Turpan and Urumgi. Then he goes on to the East Coast: Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Xiamen, Wenzhou and Yiwu.