When new to a culture, it’s easy to miss certain holidays. Not this one. It’s everywhere. If mooncakes were bullets, we’d all be dead.
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Want to live happily ever after (and keep your job) dining with bosses, clients, coworkers, family and friends? Learn how to wrestle for the check! If you’ve been in China...
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No, not that F-word. The claim of being ‘fluent’ in Chinese. Here are 3 Key Milestones to know when you’re nearly there.
Karl Marx? Marco Polo? Kublai Khan? Bill Gates? The list is endless. But if you think about it, one man’s legacy has by far had the biggest and longest lasting…
No matter your Mandarin speaking level – beginner, expert or somewhere in between – be prepared to be over-praised.
Planning to go with “the bomb” and “the hand grenade”? You might want to consider a more appropriate item to put a smile on the face of your modern host.
Do you know the difference between Western and Chinese Valentine’s Day? Feeling pressure to drop cash on another romantic holiday so soon after the last one?
Some of our linguistically inclined Cantonese friends wouldn't let us publish China Simplified: Language Empowerment without including this beloved Cantonese tongue twister. The Cantonese recording (courtesy of George Lau) and...
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In our new ASK China Simplified series, we set out to answer some of the many cultural questions that pop up in our daily conversations.
This week we spoke with the multitalented Brantley Turner, Dwight Schools Director of Programs China and Foreign Vice-Principal at Shanghai Qibao Dwight High School, a collaboration between a Chinese Public...
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