Ep. 033: Tracking Tianhou Temples in Nanshan, Shenzhen
The Goddess of the Sea in my Chinese "Hometown"
For over a decade, I made my home in the Chinese boomtown of Shenzhen, just across the border from Hong Kong. And for virtually all of that time (except for the year I lived in a Buddhist temple in Jiangsu Province) I taught at a college in the very northern portion of Nanshan, at that time the largest (by more than double) of the four districts within Shenzhen's "Special Economic Zone." (The SEZ was an experiment in capitalism that has since been expanded to cover the whole city. In my day there were six districts, four "inside" and two "outside"; the latter have now been further divided so that there are a total of nine districts, all "inside.")
