Throwback Saturday: QiXi Activities – Celebrating Chinese Valentine’s Day with Your Kids
Qixi, or Chinese Valentine’s Day, falls on the seventh day of the seventh lunar…
Browsing: Culture
Chinese Made Easy with Chineasy
One of the big stumbling blocks preventing expats, tourists, and visitors to China from communicating…
HRG 2015: Culture Shocked – Ten things to expect when moving to China
Whether this is your first or tenth overseas posting, it’s only natural that you and…
LAYman’s Chronicles: Chinese Tutor to the Rescue
It happened rather unexpectedly. Our daughter missed a week of school due to illness and…
3 Online Learning Platforms for Improving Your Mandarin
Whether you want to maintain your Chinese during the summer months while away from Beijing’s…
White Makes Right: Clashing with Chinese beauty ideals
It’s often said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. This may…
Flash the Cash: Living in a plastic-free society
You know those rectangular, pink bills with Chairman Mao’s portrait on them? You’ll be seeing…
A Comedy of Manners: Making sense of China’s subtle social cues
Chinese is a tough language to learn, but its four-tone complexity pales in comparison to…
Archive: Ten Things You Didn’t Know About Dragon Boat Festival
Eating zhongzi and racing dragon boats might seem like the basic ritual to Dragon Boat…
May Top 10
P.S. I Love You, Mom Once a year, moms around the world get the royal…