Well for those of you who haven’t already heard Christine, my wife, is due at the end of January. This is obviously a really exciting time for us. But I’m sure you’ve heard that all before. I thought I would discuss one of the stranger feelings that has reoccured over the past 8 months. “Are …
There has been a lot of talk lately about censorship in China. I thought I would touch on this issue from the perspective of a Westerner living in China. To provide you with a background of my initial views on China I recommend you read www.bigtroubleinlittlechina.org/2009/10/national-day-in-china-part-i . Google has recently pulled out of China, or …
As I have mentioned before I am currently studying Chinese at Beijing Normal University, 北京师范大学. Foreign students studying Chinese as a second language at BNU are placed in the College of Chinese Language and Culture, which is a university department much the same as the history or physics department. The Chinese program is a four …
Yes it is！ Last month I went on a school trip to the Great Wall of China. The trip began at 7:30 a.m. Saturday morning and involved a convoy of 10 buses travelling to the Great Wall. Now I should mention that the vast majority of students at BNU live on campus. I, on the …