Aug 8, 2017 With a population just slightly north of 2 million, Haikou is actually on the smaller side among cities in China. But you wouldn’t be able to tell by walking around. Although it took some time finding it on a map, I quickly got to experience a bit of what makes Haikou, also […]
Aug 10, 2017 As a rising senior, I approached this summer as my last opportunity to experience something different, to try something new, and to explore new countries before graduating. Having no study or intern abroad experience yet in college, the Harvard China Student Internship Program presented a perfect opportunity for me to fulfill my
Aug 22, 2017 Every weekend, I commute into Beijing’s city center to fulfill my proper tourist duties. Sany Heavy Industry, China’s leading engineering machinery manufacturer (and also my workplace), is located in Changping, a suburb two hours away by transit from downtown Beijing. After a week living and working inside the industrial park I can’t
Aug 29, 2017 Never in my life have I ever felt more Chinese. Growing up in a 95% white town, I was the majority of my friends’ only Asian friend, and because of this, I was their encyclopedia to all things China. I desperately tried to explain how fortune cookies aren’t actually a Chinese thing,
Sep 1, 2017 Going into this summer, I really didn’t know what to expect. Since leaving Beijing as a young child, every subsequent experience I’d had in my homeland was completely filtered through the lens of a foreigner, with full immersion always supplanted by my mother’s help with translation, comfortable hotel stays, and nice dinner
Sep 5, 2017 The freeway was awash in a golden late-evening glow as I drifted in and out of sleep on the airport shuttle into Shanghai. I remember looking out the window and seeing all the trees, the grass, the vines draped over every concrete pillar in sight, all flushed with a comfortable kind of
