As a native of Beijing, I have seldom ventured to the business and financial district of Guomao (国贸), an area of connected shopping malls and office buildings, home to some of the most influential companies’ Chinese operations in the world. It was natural to wonder what exactly happens on those upper floors aside from a […]
Oct 11, 2019 Weaving through Beijing traffic on my Mobike, marveling at the efficiency of the metro system, scanning Alipay as I purchase fresh yogurt and mangosteens – my summer in China has been a whirlwind of new experiences. Interning with the Beijing office of Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) was my first time working
Oct 11, 2019 Children. Innovation. Limitless. These three words encapsulate my experience at Junior Achievement (JA). As an intern, I didn’t expect much beyond sitting at a desk and staring at my screen. I was wrong. This past week, I was offered the opportunity to help plan, develop, and execute an Innovation Summer Camp. Rarely
Oct 11, 2019 With more than two million of Hong Kong’s seven million residents protesting in the streets, the summer of 2019 was one of the most interesting times to debate issues of freedom, autonomy, security, and order in the context of Hong Kong’s complicated history and its current status as a Special Administrative Region
Sep 13, 2019 Finally was my single dominating thought when I arrived in Shanghai back in June. I was a bundle of nerves, excited to finally get to know a country I’d last visited as a tiny toddler, and the fact that I’d be doing it alongside thirty or so other Harvard interns made the idea
Aug 23, 2019 In order to better understand the incredible cultural subtleties of Hong Kong, it is helpful to imagine a Venn diagram with the biggest circle representing China, and some smaller circles representing the U.K., the Philippines, Nepal, and the United States -all intersecting each other. The distribution of the cultural influence of each
