Recently a message was sent to a mailing list of Chinese faculty on a college campus inviting the first few who replied to the email to a FREE dinner in honor of a visiting scholar from China. Yes, the dinner was Free, that is, it would be paid by the hosting party. Two days passed [...]

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April 12, 2009, I was wakened up by the vibration of my cell phone on the bed table. It was only 5:15 am! When I saw the text message that caused the vibration, my vexation immediately turned into delight. It was a colleague of mine asking me to add him as a friend in Facebook, [...]

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While surfing the Internet, I stumbled into an article from the China Youth Daily that gives some survival tips for personal interactions in China. It is titled “Nine Don’ts to Help You Survive in China” (在中国生存的九个“绝不要”). I’d like to summarize the “nine don’ts” (with my own experience and comments) here in English to share with [...]

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