AN ARDUOUS BUT WARM JOURNEY--Care and compassion makes an overseas returnee's journey to China less stressful

It was late March and the number of novel coronavirus disease(COVID-19)cases in the U.S.was surging.My classes had moved online,and it was crunch time for me.Should I stay or should I go?I thought long and hard before deciding to cut short my studies as a visiting scholar in the School of Journalism,University of Missouri,and head back home to Beijing.     

Innovation Through Collaboration

正I am not an expat,but I come to China so of ten I feel like one.My mission is to build UK Chinese links in innovation.It is recognized that innovation flowers at the intersection of cultures either in time or space.For me the differences in culture be tween Europe and China are amazing and cover     

Basic Facts About Human Rights In Tibet

How are human rights in Tibet? This is an issue made a mess of on the international scene. A fair evaluation of the human rights situation in Tibet depends on an answer to these two questions: First, whether human rights conditions in Tibet have improved under the leadership of the Communist Party of China or remained unchanged or even worsened; and second, whether or not the unique interests and rights of Tibetans as an ethnic minority group have been effectively protected. I would like to provide some basic facts as an answer to these questions.     

A Voyage of Discovery

正I have spent the golden years of my life and career in China,having come to Beijing from Cairo as a 22-year-old.That was in 2008 and this is 2016,so you could call it a life-time experience.But if I had got one mark more in my French exam in school I would not have been in Beijing.I would also not have married the love of my life and had my little daughter.I would probably be working as a taxi driver or     

AN ARDUOUS BUT WARM JOURNEY

正Care and compassion makes an overseas returnee’s journey to China less stressful It was late March and the number of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in the U.S. was surging. My classes had moved online, and it was crunch time for me. Should I stay or should I go? I thought long and hard before deciding to cut short my studies as a visiting scholar in the School of Journalism, University of Missouri, and head back home to Beijing.     

LETTERS

I came across an album of photos put online by a charity group last year and was appalled by the inhumane condition of some of the poorest in this country. It is hard to believe that in a time when I and people around me complain about bad traffic or plan summer vaca- tions in Europe for our kids, some people deep in the mountains of Guizhou Province are still struggling to fill their stomachs and their children     

Never Too Late to Start Over

LAST year I decided to pack up my things and move into a retirement community. Many people asked me why I would want to do that, rather than staying in my own home or living with my kids as most people in their late years do. One of the main reasons was that I had already had some friends living in these types of places, and they always spoke highly of the experience.     

Spring Festival at the Home of Family Fu

Having lived for 23 years in San Francisco and having a birthday in February, I often encountered celebrations of Chinese New Year, or Spring Festival as it isknown in China, in the course of my own birthday celebrations. The date of the holiday is determined by the lunar calendar so its date in the Gregorian calendar moves between January and February. For most of those 23 years, the highlight of my birthday was a visit by my parents, who would host a dinner for me and many of my friends.     

Post-COVID Reflections

<正>I was teaching English at Liaoning University in Shenyang, capital of the northeastern Chinese province of Liaoning, in 1998, my first year in the country. It was a formative experience for me and my career has been connected to China in one way or another ever since. I’d already worked as a public health officer for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and spent time around the world at that point,     

Democratic Consultation Not Cheap Talk

I am chief of a residents’ committee in Xinhe Town of Zhe-jiang Province’s Wenling City. I was elected as a deputy to the local People’s Congress in 1995.In the past, at the annual gatherings of the township legislature deputies usually just sat and listened to cadres reading the government work report. They never had the chance toraise opinions or suggestions. Since 2000 democratic     

"The Other Final": Reminding us that football is fun

On 30 June 2002 I sat in heaven - that is, the third tier of Yokohama stadium, watching the World Cup Final be- tween Brazil and Germany. At that moment footballwas life, in the same way it is when I step out on the field,wearing my team's uniform, waiting for the whistle. It's all thatmatters... run and score... win or lose... life or death.Melodramatic, I know, but true. What I didn't know then wasthat at the same time another final was being played high in theHimalayas, this one a comp…     

Living with Films

ILMS are my passion. I visit DVD shops two or three times a week and constantly surf the Inter- net for the latest produc- tions. I saw my first film, a domestic pro- duction named Heroic Sons and Daugh- ters, at the age of four, and went on to watch it a further 20 times. This was not because of an obsessive love for the film but because I grew up during a restric- tive and isolated period, when cine-re- sources fell far short of the demands of a cinephile such as me. I grew up in the la…     

Myths,legends and legacy of the Yuan:Genghis Khan and Kublai Khan

The very idea of going to Mongolia makes me shiver. It's not that it's as far north or as cold as Siberia, but the legends and myths which are as plentiful as the grasslands and the Gobi Desert sands are enough to leave me in terror. A Christmas present that I held in my hand at the end of the "choose an unopened gift or take one already seen" was a specially boxed set of knife, silver cup and tasselled tusk from Mongolia. An informed guest explained that this was a warrior's kit, the knife to pierce a horse's neck and the cup was the vessel from which to drink the blood. I didn't ask about the horn.     

Food, Adventurous Food, with Chinese Characteristics

I never really ate Chinese food before coming to China. That＇s the conclusion I reached many years ago, after my first visit to the PRC. I had long enjoyed the tasty, somewhat exotic delights of suburban Chinese restaurants in the US： limpid mo-shoo pork, the pu-pu platter, sau-téed meat in a heavy sauce with canned pineapple chunks, and of course the fortune cookie -the ubiquitous after-dinner treat which, to Chinese people, is an overseas idiosyncrasy. But this is not really Chinese food. My memories of Chinese dishes outside of China are pretty repetitive. Regardless of which item you order, it seems always to be more or less the same, plus or minus broccoli and snow peas.     

The Qualities of a CEO

FOR such a broad and complex topic,I am not sure which is the most suitable approach.Do I talk about the qualities a CEO should have or needs to cultivate? What about the dreams of CEOs,or how the role in China differs from that abroad?     

Build the Nation through New and High Technologies

I left my job in the UK five years ago to return to China and actualize my ambition of founding an international company in carnating Chinese wisdoms to rival hi-tech innovation giants like IBM and Microsoft, with creativity, or the power of the mind, as its competitive edge, rather than intense exploitation of natural resources and cheap labor. In my capacity as     

Following In the Steps of Emperors

"The world is small,"said Confucius.When he made that comment he was standing 1,545 reelers above sea level on the top of Taishan Mountian.When I stood in the same spot,I wondered if the great sage had a premonition about globalization,or he just marveled at the bird's-eye view. I lost count of the steps after 30 minutes. The part of my brain that switches off when I do anything strenuous signaled shutdown and my feet moved metronomically.I kept telling myself I was following in the foot- steps of 72 emperors,Confucius and even Chairman Mao Zedong himself.Suddenly the phrase"one step at a time"took on a     

Everyday Death Trap

One of my first surprises when I arrived in China was seeing men offering cigarettes freely and openly as a goodwill gesture to a friend, visitor or associate in the same way that we offer kola nuts or drinks to guests in Nigeria. Another surprise was the profuse smoking in buses, taxis, restaurants, offices and almost all     

Mommy, Where Do Dumplings Come from？

I feel certain that in one of my mom's past lives she was Chinese and had her own restaurant. You could not tell this by looking at her of course, but her passion for cooking is proof enough for me. This is further endorsed by the magnitude of dumplings in our house. Whenever I come home the refrigerator is loaded with mom's homemade dumplings or their Slavonic cousins, known as vareniks. When I visited Beijing for the first time in October 1999 I     

Adhering to the Values of an Intellectual

Iwas among the first law students China given the opportunity to travel to the Soviet Union for an education. But upon returning to China,I found that I was unable to put what I had learned into practice. China＇s legal system was still barely in existence, or at least, in function prior to the openingup and reform that started in 1978. After the chaos that decades of ＂class struggle＂ caused in China ended, together with a determined group of teachers,