Finally got finished with some of the clean-up, in time for Chinese New Year, so:
Decided to discover the decade by making a clean slate… removed most of the earlier posts I had on here, from the time I used this blog to chronicle my time with Campus Europae in Latvia (see my write-up of experiences [...]
One cannot escape the importance of food in China, whether it be as a foreigner seeking well-known comfort foods from home (poor bastards), a Chinese steeped in culinary traditions of one region to such a point that food from another part of the country is outright exotic (and not necessarily if that part is Xinjiang), [...]
Fewer daughters will raise women’s value
http://opinion.globaltimes.cn/foreign-view/2010-01/501145.html
The Chinese countryside is scattered with posters urging people to remember that “Girls are just as good as boys,” but the surplus of men keeps rising.
According to a study released in April 2009 by the British Medical Journal, currently, 117 boys are born in China for every 100 girls, a [...]
As the winter is at its peak, China experiences a mass migration compared to which even the great migration of peoples is but a shadow. The trek home for a family reunion at Spring Festival (Chinese New Year) is one of those things that have to be experienced, and which are pertinent reminders of cultural [...]
It’s just students waiting in line to get train tickets? Yes. And no.
One obvious thing first: it seems common for Chinese *not* to wait in line but to follow a “me first”-attitude. Obviously, it’s not always so.
Secondly, if you ever had to buy train tickets in China as spring break is getting closer, you would [...]
Bin sehr froh es hierher geschafft zu haben; schon alleine zu hören und zu diskutieren, was andere so unterrichten, für Erfahrungen haben, ist überaus interessant… mehr wenn ich etwas Zeit und falls ich Lust dazu habe
China ist uns sehr nahe gekommen – und doch immer noch wie eine andere Welt.
Zum interkulturellen Verständnis beizutragen wäre in dieser Situation zunehmend wichtig. Das chinesische Verhältnis zu Minderheiten und Ausländern würde darin eine interessante Rolle spielen. Ãœberwiegend aber sind plakative Beschreibungen zu finden. So wie im Standard vom 7.11.2009 berichtet, ist der Fall von [...]
Global Times, Nov. 1, 2009
Update: Later, this article even made it into the Chinese edition (translated, of course – and not by me)… kinda funky.
Chinese and foreign commentators, often at odds with each other, are of one mind when it comes to China’s younger generation.
Raised as single children, the sole center of attention for the [...]
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