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Monthly Archives: June 2014
Building Dreams in Beijing
By Janelle Clausen
BEIJING- Gao Yanwei works as a waitress nine and a half hours a day, six days a week, serving countless tables with a smile so she may change her destiny. Continue reading
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Chinese & American Journalism: Oh How They Differ
By Wenhao Ma
Yu Fu, an international journalism major, stood erect, eyes staring down at her presentation, in front of an audience of her peers and 11 other visiting U.S. students. Continue reading
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Traditional Chinese Medicine Faces Challenges at Home
By Wenhao Ma
Jing Lanting loves studying traditional Chinese medicine at Beijing University of Chinese Medicine. But when she needs something for a headache, she goes first to a Western doctor. Continue reading
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Still Holding Up Half the Sky?
By JD Allen
If all goes according to plan, Wang Luqian will live up to Chairman Mao’s declaration that “women hold up half the sky.” Continue reading
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Caught in between: The difficulties of being Chinese-American in China
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
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Idealism at a Chinese Medical School
By Lisa Setyon and Maggie Cai
Caught in between her passion for psychology and her parents’ desire for her to pursue Chinese medicine, Xie Baozhen (Emily), 19, let go of her dreams to make her family proud. Continue reading
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Chinese Medicine: Half science; half folklore
By Catherine Ayscue
Traditional Chinese medicine, with all its superstitions and ritualistic methods, may seem closer to magic than medicine—but it actually involves much more care and careful study than outsiders realize Continue reading
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My Chinese Fortune
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
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Squatting Toilets Live On In Modern China
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
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Recycling Booms in China
By Janelle Clausen
The United States often chastises China for its environmental nightmares – and for good reason. Chinese smog chokes the lungs and blocks the sun; more than half of China’s the water is polluted and the country produces nearly a third of the world’s waste. Continue reading
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