My news reader. NYTimes, WaPo, The Economist and CSM. All good China news sources. None have a decent China-specific RSS feed. They have feeds to be sure, NYTimes even has a China feed, but they are underpowered. Bookmarking their China page is a thing of the past. If it’s not in my news reader it’s [...]
I hate when I find myself in the crosshairs of two cultures. Naturally, I have many expat friends and colleagues. I also have a Chinese family and certain obligations towards them and my/our Chinese friends.
There are times when I find myself being asked to ask a favor of someone that I simply don’t feel comfortable [...]
“I” had the following text message conversation with ye’ olde anonymous (most likely a student) person this morning. I put “I” in quotation marks because it was actually Jinjin doing the responding. Jinjin’s commentary follows below the conversation. The original in Chinese follows below too.
Anon: What’s up?
Jinjin: Who are you?
Anon: You are kaven?
Jinjin: Yes, and [...]
We were at the bottom of the stairs and I had just tossed a bag of milk onto the basket when my wife said to me, “Careful, there are eggs in that basket.”
“I don’t think a bag of milk will hurt them,” I replied.
“Hey, I’m just trying to be helpful, you don’t need to be [...]
How do my students read English? Does the sound form in their head as they read a word, or does that word first get translated into Chinese and then the Chinese sound is produced in their head, or do both sounds get produced, but only the Chinese sound provides the meaning?
My students have great trouble [...]
This feed not (totally) blocked in China, (yet), (I hope).
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