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(Letter) One of the things we love about living in China: our neighbours

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This is a happy China story that also happens to have some fun cultural elements in it. When we moved into this neighbourhood a year and a half ago, we'd just begun language school and could hardly communicate at all (now we're fluent in Chinglish). We picked this neighbourhood because it has a great outdoor community atmosphere and it seemed to be average (economically) for … [Read more...] about (Letter) One of the things we love about living in China: our neighbours

(Letter from skylight, Opposing Viewpoint) A letter from a Chinese to Dalai Lama (originally written by Zhu Rui)

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Note from Editor (Allen): [edited 2008-08-31 (originally I failed to attribute the source to Zhu Rui's blog, for which I apologize)] Here is a letter brought to our attention by guest blogger Skylight originally published in Zhu Rui's blog. A nation of 1.3 billion has many voices.  Here is a minority voice that I (Editor) do not necessarily agree with but that I still … [Read more...] about (Letter from skylight, Opposing Viewpoint) A letter from a Chinese to Dalai Lama (originally written by Zhu Rui)

(Letter) Lots of us want to love and respect China, but right now China isn't helping

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This will probably make some people angry, or at least get people's emotions fired up. But that's not what I'm trying to do. This is a totally honest Western perspective from a Westerner who is usually very positive toward China (we are learning Chinese in China and want our kids to grow up here). I'm writing this hoping we can have a real conversation and understand one … [Read more...] about (Letter) Lots of us want to love and respect China, but right now China isn't helping