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Thu, 18 Apr 2013 | By cecilia | Views [162] | Scholarship Entry
It was five o’clock in the afternoon in summer of 2010. The sun unreservedly slanted into beams of glimmering reds overlooking Shanghai’s city smog. My Chinese cousin or older sister as I would call her, spontaneously signed us up for some urban tourism ... Read more >
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Thu, 18 Apr 2013 | By taohexi | Views [278] | Scholarship Entry
The curiosity imbued in youthfulness allows one to more easily acquire the taste and appreciation for a new culture’s cuisine. I was an inquisitive 21 year old the summer of 1997, I joined a tour trip to China, with 12 foreign language professors and ... Read more >
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Thu, 18 Apr 2013 | By youthlagoons | Views [176] | Scholarship Entry
A walk without a goal, an endless journey. The next step was all that mattered, getting a little bit further up the mountain. When we finally stopped and looked around, it was like we walked on another planet, it looked like Pandora! Grass and trees ... Read more >
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Thu, 18 Apr 2013 | By avalonchild1988 | Views [235] | Scholarship Entry
As soon as I entered the train I was sure I’d made a mistake. Outside, it was a freezing -15°C and during my trip to Luoyang I’d repeatedly cursed the biting winds that make Northern China’s winters almost unbearable. But in here the temperature was ... Read more >
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Thu, 18 Apr 2013 | By cmk | Views [213] | Scholarship Entry
Even though Liu Li was an ayi – the Chinese word for aunt, which is also used for domestic helpers – there was nothing auntly, let along great-auntly about her. A small, but energetic 20-year-old, she sported tight white jeans, a rhinestone T-shirt, stiletto ... Read more >
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Wed, 17 Apr 2013 | By col_n_sue | Views [424] | Comments [2]
Today was magnificent, rafting down the river near Yangshuo, though I think our photos will not present the landscape well, because it was foggy (not smoggy) for most of the day. But the place is constantly surprising, with huge mounds popping ... Read more >
Wed, 17 Apr 2013 | By zoecroom | Views [217] | Scholarship Entry
With shaking knees and clammy hands we stand on the edge, staring into the Nu River. We have spent four days trekking to the Tibetan village behind us. We have climbed a 4000 metre mountain, crossed landslides, slid on our bums down a glacier, slept on ... Read more >
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Wed, 17 Apr 2013 | By benchafe | Views [259] | Scholarship Entry
It was July when I first stepped onto the streets of Shanghai. It was hot, crowded, loud and disorganized. Having intended to take in the city at ground level, I soon found that “taking in” Shanghai meant dodging throngs of people and mopeds speeding ... Read more >
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Wed, 17 Apr 2013 | By sharbo | Views [278] | Scholarship Entry
A warm breeze greeted me as I stepped out of the car on a beachfront along the coast of Weihai, a city of little significance to the typical tourist but of great significance to me. Following my grandma’s death, my visit was an attempt to hang onto what ... Read more >
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Wed, 17 Apr 2013 | By mareylasinaga | Views [220] | Scholarship Entry
There is a China’s stamp in my passport. And that’s my first stamp that decorated my passport. At that time, I was applying at a social project in China with a biggest goal to improve myself by getting in touch with global world and people in it. Sounds ... Read more >
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Tue, 16 Apr 2013 | By col_n_sue | Views [465]
I am sitting on our king sized bed typing this up, looking out the window of the Yangshuo River Retrat to the nearby mountains (I wouldn't be able to see them through the mist if they were further away.)
We only just arrived here in Yangshou, in amongst ... Read more >
Mon, 15 Apr 2013 | By chabuduo | Views [269] | Scholarship Entry
I'm French. In my family, food is more than important, it is sacred. So it's safe to say I thought I knew all about being obsessed with food. That was until I moved to China. China, where the most common greeting is not "Hello", but "Have you eaten yet?".... Read more >
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Mon, 15 Apr 2013 | By col_n_sue | Views [474] | Comments [1]
You will no doubt have guessed from the title we have been cruising the three gorges. They are quite stunning, and we have had great weather (though still a little hazy as always).
The dam was quite controversial but now that it has been completed ... Read more >
Mon, 15 Apr 2013 | By year-of-the-snake | Views [235] | Scholarship Entry
I squeezed my eyes shut because I couldn't watch as she bit the head off a steaming, ruby red sea creature, spit it out, and carefully place it down as if it were a newborn. Big inhale, heavy sigh. I heard bones. My plate was still empty. Its beady, black ... Read more >
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Sat, 13 Apr 2013 | By eyes-on | Views [225] | Scholarship Entry
Having been in Beijing for more than 8 years as a Northeastern born Chinese ,"studying in the capital of my country " has also been a reality since I went into my college life in 2003 in Minzu University of China. As the most diversified university in ... Read more >
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