Wow, your Chinese is very good”, remarked the supermarket checkout employee. “Your pronunciation is very standard, better than ours”, chimed in her giggling colleague on the adjacent cash register.“How long have you been in China?” “Longer than you”, I...
Motivation is the hunger that each of us have to go out and get what we desire. Each of our desires point us in the direction of our own individuality and purpose. Having a purpose gives us moral meaning...
A Nanjing lady, slightly advanced in years, was recently overheard to have asked her mixed-race grand daughter what she thought of her house in New Zealand. The little girl replied, “Well, it’s quite nice, but it’s a bit small,...
A contestant on Jiangsu TV dating show “If You Are The One”, shocked China a few years back when she famously said she would rather cry in a BMW car than laugh on the back of a bike. As...
They call them “New Growth” or “Next Generation” industries which have taken over from the industrial sector and is what now what helps fuel China’s economy.
A new documentary by NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) China: The Great Dragon, takes a...
Blankets, pillows, beanbags and cups of hot chocolate with extra-large marshmallows. Don’t forget the candles, which provide an almost evanescent backlight to the room with shades of apricot and amber. The distant howl of the wind is muffled by...
Before you begin you must first get the pronunciation of this word correct, for you will go on to read it an obscene number of times throughout this article; hygge or hyoogah not hygee.
hygge/ˈhʊɡ ga//ˈh(j)uːɡ:gə/
In his hit book The Little...
16 autumns ago, sparked the beginning of what is now known as The Hanfu Movement. It was, in fact, the autumn of 2001 and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit where world leaders Vladimir Putin, George .W. Bush and...
