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“To enrich your family, there is no need to buy good land: books hold a thousand measures of grain,” advises a Confucian maxim. The sage’s teachings would later become the core of imperial China’s civil service examinations. These evolved ...
America was once the top choice for Chinese parents wanting to send their children to study overseas. Now, a combination of visa refusals, unexpected repatriations and tighter scrutiny of Chinese students, have mainland families reconsidering ...
Outside the Sterling Memorial Library at Yale University there is a statue of Yung Wing, the first Chinese scholar to have graduated from an American university. After receiving his degree in 1854, Yung returned to China to pioneer the Chinese ...
A survey published in 2013 by Yale researchers found that 45% of Chinese students in the US reported symptoms of depression on campus, and 29% were suffering from anxiety. The rates were startling, compared with the roughly 13% reporting ...
It is not uncommon for Chinese companies to feature theatrical performances in their annual gatherings (see WiC438 for more background on the nianhui culture). Last year Tencent’s Pony Ma dressed in hip-hop attire to sing a popular Sandy Lam ...
With a strong black coffee in one hand and an oversized teddy bear in the other, I’m standing in front of 30 Chinese toddlers gazing up at me in wonder. Less than eight weeks ago, I was clutching my first-class degree in French, Chinese and ...
The allure of an Ivy League education is compelling for some Chinese tycoons, although their tendency is to make donations to the schools in question rather than necessarily study at them. Five years ago Harvard received an undisclosed amount ...