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Fri, 19 Apr 2013 | By jing | Views [353] | Scholarship Entry
‘Where can I find the Shanghai-style onion pancake made just like it was before?’ That has been a question I asked my relatives every time I visited Shanghai, my place of birth. As a teenager in Shanghai, I used to get my breakfast from a shop in my neighbourhood ... Read more >
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Fri, 19 Apr 2013 | By nomilkinmytea | Views [239] | Scholarship Entry
China 1) You will love it here. You will hate being here for the first 3 months, but you will grow to love it. You will start to pick up every single mannerism that once annoyed you. Clap for yourself. The transformation is almost complete. 2) After ... Read more >
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Fri, 19 Apr 2013 | By sarichayyi | Views [165] | Scholarship Entry
I cannot imagine how I could finally end up having a very good relationship with some Chinese friends. It began when I decided to ask them to go travel to the beach along with some Indonesian friends. We were classmates in an “English for Business” class, ... Read more >
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Fri, 19 Apr 2013 | By zzhiming | Views [368] | Scholarship Entry
“Every woman is fragile, but every mother is strong.” When I first saw this sentence in a Chinese magazine called Readers, I could not understand it. As time goes on, I realized that it is a more philosophical saying. A mother has to be strong both physically ... Read more >
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Fri, 19 Apr 2013 | By mejlina | Views [205] | Scholarship Entry
Hohhot is the provincial capital of Inner Mongolia, a region in northern China about a 12-hour train ride from Beijing. The town lies on the Mongolian steppes, but you couldn’t tell if you lived in it. Lush grassland had been replaced by grey two-story ... Read more >
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Fri, 19 Apr 2013 | By hellyp | Views [248] | Scholarship Entry
It is the eight large cabbages lined up against the wall outside, which grab my attention first. ‘To last us the winter,’ Yuan Yuan said, smiling proudly. But there is so much more to take in. Here, in the tiniest of courtyards, three faded red front ... Read more >
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Fri, 19 Apr 2013 | By traveladdictshelby | Views [150] | Scholarship Entry
We were ushered to sit down in our host family’s tiny living room. “Would you like to play a game?” The daughter asked us. “We love playing UNO.” She grinned and sent her 11-year-old cousin to fetch the cards. She turned on the 20-inch TV right next ... Read more >
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Fri, 19 Apr 2013 | By vasanti | Views [220] | Scholarship Entry
As I find myself waking up on the other side of the planet in Beijing, China, I ask myself...."what have I done?". This is around 6 am, May 2008, when I have just entered this totally unknown world and what would become the GREATEST adventure of my ... Read more >
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Fri, 19 Apr 2013 | By leaheades | Views [473] | Scholarship Entry
You can smell Furong Jie before you see it. Ok, you can hear it too. And the sight of people cluttering the pavements clutching their steaming hot jianbings is also a bit of a giveaway. But it’s the smell that really draws you in: at once sharp and bitter, ... Read more >
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Fri, 19 Apr 2013 | By tomi | Views [149] | Scholarship Entry
It was a hot day at the time I visited the shop. A bit exhausted from the tour we had at the Great Wall, still, out of curiousness and excitement I pushed myself into the shop while thinking that it would be just another souvenir shop in a tourist destination ... Read more >
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Fri, 19 Apr 2013 | By chinesencounters | Views [181] | Scholarship Entry
The story takes place in the wonderful, exciting and fast changing setting of the Yangtze river in the heart of mainland China. Me and my “just met travel mate” decided to go on a river cruise for a three days trip which would bring us from the biggest ... Read more >
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Fri, 19 Apr 2013 | By clintontedja | Views [305] | Scholarship Entry
Most people pass right by - unaware of their presence. Tonight is no different. The sidewalk is crackling with the cat-calls and whines of students, most of them waving their green, and quickly disappearing “Tsingtao” beer bottles around. It seems ... Read more >
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Fri, 19 Apr 2013 | By carrie105 | Views [172] | Scholarship Entry
Chengdu is best known for being the home of the pandas. It’s also known as being home to some of the spiciest food in China. Wanting to sample the local cuisine I arrived at a hot-pot restaurant. As soon as I walked through the door everyone looked at ... Read more >
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Fri, 19 Apr 2013 | By pasakojimai | Views [162] | Scholarship Entry
Private Banking The Bank looked as an important financial landmark of the city should: big and imposing columns and western style facade made the building stood out of others in the dusty Chinese town. Out of the sleepy darkness of the bank ... Read more >
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Fri, 19 Apr 2013 | By nomadworld | Views [152] | Scholarship Entry
Half of the town seems to have gathered to see us off. There are so many, they completely fill the frame provided by the rear window, even spilling into adjacent but less photogenic ones. As the bus takes off they grow smaller. A silent fade-out, the ... Read more >
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