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Why The Chinese Do Better In Standardized Exams
Are Chinese robots? Ok, that’s a mean way of saying it. But anyway, let’s proceed. My Latvian classmate in Fudan is a volunteer, like me, at the World Expo. She at the Latvian Pavilion. And I at the...
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Interview: Host Steven Weathers Of ICS EXPO 360°
Steven Weathers As someone interested in the Shanghai Expo, I started streaming videos from ICS or International Channel Shanghai online for their EXPO 360° shows. [Our dorm has television, but we have...
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What Is “Laowai” To A Chinese?
I was having dinner with my language partner one day, and I did not know how our conversation steered; but we went to talking about the term 老外 (laowai). As a student in Shanghai, I got used to hearing...
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Tips On Learning Chinese In China
NOTE: I will be using the terms “Chinese” and “Mandarin” interchangeably. However, what I just mean is the Standard Spoken Mandarin used by the People’s Republic of China. I just came back from...
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Old Man Or Little Girl: Who Is More Shameless?
I saw this debate in a Chinese forum– On the 3rd of August in Hebei Province, at the Shijiazhuang Ring Road Bus No. 1, a 70-year old grandfather with a cane stepped inside to take the public transport....
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On China Housing Crisis: People Buying Houses Getting Younger
We’ve translated an article from China Economy (original article in Chinese), highlighting why the average home buying age in China is going down, despite the increasing prices. China Economy’s...
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Top 10 “Not To Be Missed” Food At The World Expo
There are a few more days left until the World Expo in Shanghai ends. For those who are still aiming to catch the final weeks of the Expo, instead of lining up for hours to enter the pavilions, why not...
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Future Shock: China As Seen By Alvin Toffler
I just read the 40 predictions for the next 40 years as released by Toffler Associates. This was to mark the 40th anniversary of the book Future Shock authored by sociologist Alvin Toffler. So what...
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China’s So-Called “Middle Class”
We translated a post before that enumerates and describes Shanghai’s 7 Social Classes. Here is a thread we found that talks about China’s so-called “middle class”. The term “middle class” is relative...
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The Most Stressful Cities For China’s White Collars
China’s growing group of fatigued, white-collar workers (Plasticine men or 橡皮人, a term popularized by novelist Wang Shuo) have money to spend but most of them have really no time for relaxation,...
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