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The first day teaching new Chinese students English is always interesting.
An apple, a yogurt, a chocolate bar and a sandwich- that has been my lunch every day since I switched from mother's milk to solid food.
The other day my friends Keiko and Oliver were having a barbecue in the handkerchief-sized courtyard of their siheyuan home, in a hutong off Beijing's Dongzhimennei Dajie.
I think it was Jack Kerouac who wrote that everybody should have the experience of total solitude at least once in life. The same could be said about living in a very foreign culture.
If you want to learn a new skill, you should go to the top exponents in the field.
I am a self-made woman in several fields, including learning languages. As I preach to others: Don't wait to be perfect in a language before you start to use it.
My appearance stood out like a sore thumb - but not because I was the only foreign guest attending the banquet.
Getting a taxi in Beijing nowadays is increasingly a game of luck. One needs that perfect combination of right time, right place and the right people.
From the time we found out we were having twin girls, my wife and I have been daydreaming about what their futures might hold.
One of my neighbors believed that "foreigners" have wiggly intestines while Chinese intestines are straight.
It's no secret that traffic in China is often horrendous.
In December 2011, Xie Jianping's peers offered him a seat among the elite of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
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