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For thousands of years, the Yangtze River has been both a blessing and a curse for the millions of Chinese people who have lived within its reach. Originating from a glacier in the Tibetan plateau, its powerful waters dip South into beautiful Yunnan Province and then run through Central China all the way to Shanghai and [...]
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My Chinese colleagues colleagues in the English department will often invite me to eat with them after [...]
It was official 20 days ago. As of July 1st, 2008, it is illegal in China to upload or download copyrighted information without permission from the original source, according to a report from Xinhua. The article states that “anyone uploading texts, and performance, sound and video recordings to the Internet for downloading, copying or other use, must [...]
The ceiling above my outstretched body was just a blur as my stretcher was rushed down a long dark corridor. “Get out of the way! Move it!.” I am guessing that is what my Chinese attendants were yelling as they rolled me towards a large operating room on the other end of the hospital. For [...]
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Robert Vance is in a Chinese hospital this week — I used to think I was a hard core traveler until I came down with appendicitis this week on a short trip into Central China. Having six Chinese doctors peering down at me in the operating room and [...]
Fireworks erupted this week in the English office at the school where I am employed as the Chinese manager of foreign teachers stormed into our work area to confront a workmate about a “bad attitude.” Teachers and students who were in the vicinity tried to look busy doing something else but it was hard to ignore [...]
Robert Vance here. With under a month remaining before Beijing basks in the glorious light of the Olympic Opening Ceremony, I am in search of something that has gone missing in China. I have been faithfully searching for it but it continues to elude me. It was here just a few short months ago. I know it was; [...]
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Have you heard of Will-Excel Tesol,Will Excel Global inc.,and the California Sunshine International language center? They [...]
After teaching English to children for years, teaching adults in China was a welcome change of pace. No more snotty nosed kids whispering to each other about me in a language that I could not understand. No more having to send kids to sit in the corner or having to waste half the class getting [...]
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Forced abortions are still taking place in China according to some of my close friends here. A lady explains to me this week that having to pay fines for a child that has already been born is one thing;having the government find out that you are pregnant with [...]
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