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
Sep 7, 2017 A telltale sign of a local is the ease with which he or she navigates the public transportation system. I went into this summer thinking that I could pretty much pass as a local, with my fluent Chinese and abundance of experience traveling in China with family. When I first arrived in
Sep 12, 2017 As the summer ends and I board the plane to head home, I am filled with numerous fond memories of living in Shanghai. I applied to the Harvard China Student Internship Program (HCSIP) because I had never been to China before and wanted to improve my Chinese while learning more about the
Feb 27, 2018 As the fortunate recipient of the Harvard China Fund’s Winter Funding grant, I embarked on two weeks of intensive, one-on-one Mandarin study and a homestay organised through the Mandarin Chinese Learning Center. I can only speak effusively of the positive impacts both my lessons and homelife had on my confidence and ability
Aug 15, 2017 When I first arrived in Shanghai, I was unsure of what to expect. I had taken mandarin Chinese classes since seventh grade, but despite a longstanding academic interest in China and a planned joint concentration including East Asian Studies, I had never been before. I was nervous to experience first-hand a culture
