Feature Stories

Passing the odd Chinese restaurant here and there while backpacking your way through urban Central America should not come as any great shock. However, when you have just trekked through the deep rainforests of Guatemala and you find yourself...

Having recently returned to China after a year and a half stint in Mexico, I thought the sight of batons and riot police were a thing of my past; something I could leave in Mexico, something that had no...

Foreign celebrities in China, such as Da Shan or Mark Roswell, served as the bench mark for me to achieve fluency in Chinese. There were many ways that could happen, whether that be through the awful practice of daily...

Honks of cars and scooters insufferably compete with poodles yapping and bikes squeaking, old men sit on a corner playing cards while their ladies hustle about selling goods. This picture has set the scene outside the...

Look outside. Count the number of foreign badges you see on cars versus those of Chinese auto manufacturers. Don’t be embarrassed that you are not sure about some of them. Even discounting this “unknown” category, the foreign dominance of...

Meet Jacqueline Chen. A girl from my gym who always adds one more practice to her workout routine; taking sweaty selfies. Every time she flaunts her toned abs and robust legs on WeChat, her screen is sure to be...

With an increasing number of high school graduates deciding to attend university, it is those that spend their high school years immersed in the multicultural world of international schools that prosper greatly.  Despite some aspects of...

Did you think about life after graduation before graduating from college? Lots of students in Nanjing Normal University have. The word “graduation” is a symbol of choices to be made; the start of something new. As...