Dai culture recently piqued my interest, and thus I have undertaken a small translation project. The Water-Splashing Festival is the annual must-see event for China travellers (though it may be…
Also read this post on Asia Society Northern California’s blog. The Western media wake trailing the Wenzhou train crash (7.23.11) has ranged from speculative and well-founded to insensitive and under-evidenced and…
Professor Sam Crane of Williams College has recently posted an excellent blog entry about the phenomenon of “misunderstanding China” — and as laowai’s surely are aware, that is in quotations…
Having survived death by a thousand cuts (finals week), a whirlwind week as a funemployed laowai in Andingmen, and 24 hours of travel, I finally am now tucked back into…
So being a student can often feel pretty 大起大落, and right now I’d say I’m on the upswing. I’ve realized the basis of my academic self-esteem is how much reading…
There are too many good things to say about my recent experience travelling in Western China. Chengdu itself is a hot pot – full of mist, spice, and surprises. If you…
I am a Chinese graduate school student, but Chinese is not my native language. So what would take me ten minutes to read in English will take about an hour…
I really dislike laowai blogs. Laowai is a Chinese term that means “foreigner” – a term not just used by Chinese, but by any self-respecting foreigner who lives in the PRC (People’s Republic of…
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