Blogs

By Lisa Setyon
My friends pushed me down on the blue seat in front of the little Chinese student with needles in his hands. “Don’t worry, it doesn’t hurt,” Tahseen Rabbi, my roommate, said. Continue reading →

By Lisa Setyon & Tahseen Rabbi
Welcome to Airstrip One of Oceania, I thought to myself. I was sitting in classroom 105 of the Communication University of China (CUC), listening to graduate students present their term papers on how to present domestic news to the rest of the world. Continue reading →

By Janelle Clausen
Less than two minutes after I and two accompanying professors entered a hospital in Yangzhou, China, a gap-toothed hospital staffer greeted us. Not two hours. Two minutes. How was this possible? Continue reading →

By Maggie Cai
“I saw you over there and you were the same color as us so I thought you were Chinese,” said one of the students to me. I thought, “What does she mean? No one has ever said such a thing to me in my 19 years. Continue reading →

By Tahseen Rabbi
I’ve made the mistake of visiting an American fortune-teller once, so the opportunity to see a Chinese one should have made me skeptical. Continue reading →

By Maggie Cai
As I stepped into the tiled bathroom stall, I was soon overwhelmed by the dirty footprints on the wet floor, the nostril-stinging stench of urine and the buzzing flies. Continue reading →

By Francesca Campione
While in Beijing in June I was determined to venture into a subway system that was alien to everything I knew. Continue reading →