Beijing School Uniforms: Rote Design for Rote Learners
Buoyed with a literacy rate of 96 percent and having created some eight million university graduates…
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Record Numbers Apply for Performing Arts Colleges
It could be said that one sign of a prosperous society is the number of…
Gender Equity: Perspectives on China’s Gender Equity from Feudal to the Contemporary
We probably don’t need to tell you that traditionally in the Chinese household men are…
Lantern Festival in Beijing: Traditions and Lantern Fairs
The Lantern Festival, also known as Yuanxiao Festival or Shangyuan Festival, is a traditional holiday…
Mandarin Monday: The Most Common Chinese Measure Words You Need to Remember
Many times when I try constructing sentences, I find myself stuck when quantifying nouns, so…
Leta Hong Fincher: Author of Acclaimed ‘Leftover Women’ Discusses the Uprising of Feminism China
2017 will largely be remembered in the west as the year the #metoo campaign came to…
Mandarin Monday: The Many Auspicious Symbols of Spring Festival
The saying “if you can’t beat your enemy, join them” rings particularly true during Spring Festival,…
Chopsticks Taboos: 12 Unholy Ways to Pick Up Your Food
The use of chopsticks to pick food up from the plate will earn you several…
Why Dogs Hate Cats: A New Year Folk Tale
Today ushers in the Year of the Dog. It will come as no surprise that…
Happy (Clean) New Year!
Being uber-careful of various Chinese superstitions about cleaning before/during/after the New Year, I still had…