One of China’s biggest sporting stars, Peng Shuai, has disappeared after making sexual assault allegations against the country’s former vice premier
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One of China’s biggest sporting stars, Peng Shuai, has disappeared after making sexual assault allegations against the country’s former vice premier
Rates of Covid infection in China have been low for a number of months, with an average of 40 new infections per day, well below most countries in Europe and the Americas. As the coronavirus comes under control in its country of origin, it is widely anticipated that China’s leaders will reopen the country to foreign travellers in the coming months. When Beijing gives the […]
In recent months Beijing has been taking a strong stance against popular culture, cracking down on talent shows, regulating fan groups, limiting access to computer games and detaining some of the country’s most popular celebrities. The reasoning behind these measures are not entirely clear, but Beijing’s actions suggest China’s leaders are worried about the growing influence of pop culture. Television Shows Controlling television and radio […]
Across Europe and North America there is a commonly held belief that people from China are inherently good at Mathematics. This stereotype has been reinforced in popular culture, with the geeky Chinese student a regular fixture in memes, cartoons and high school movies. These stereotypes are supported by some factual data, such as the international recognised ‘Programme for International Student Assessment’, PISA Mathematics rankings. Over […]
The year 2021 was never meant to be on the olympic calendar, but the Covid-19 pandemic created a one year postponement to the olympics for the first time in the modern era. As such, the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and the 2020 Paralympics were truly unique olympic events. With these sporting spectacles successfully completed, attention now turns to Japan’s neighbour. China had great success at this […]
Last week, China’s central government introduced strict new regulations to reduce the pressures on school children and limit the operations of Chinese tutoring businesses. The new regulations forbid the scheduling of tutoring classes at weekends and public holidays, limit online classes to 30 minutes per session and ban public advertising of academic tutoring services. China’s crack down on tutoring businesses is also impacting the structure […]
Learning Chinese is an incredibly enjoyable and empowering process, but at times it can be very challenging. Often, the best solution for difficulties and frustration is humour, and what better to laugh at than memes about learning Chinese? So to support your emotional wellbeing during the challenges of learning Chinese, we’ve scoured the internet for the very best learning Chinese memes – enjoy! Chinese in […]
The Euro 2020 football championship reaches its zenith this weekend with the final between England and Italy. After a one year delay to this competition, fans around the world have jubilantly celebrated the return of international football played in front of thousands of spectators. China’s football fans have been particularly excited to celebrate the Euro Football Championship and analyst expect over 50 million Chinese fans […]
Technical skills, in general, would apply across the world, but if you study abroad, their relevance may be at a scale that’s still unprecedented back home. Irrespective of your field of study, these technical skills are generally accepted as some of the most valuable skills to have, given the current global situation. For this list, we’re going to focus on skills that may not necessarily […]
The idea of learning something in your sleep, sounds like the type of sarcastic remark a frustrated secondary school teacher would make to a dozing student. However, there is a growing body of evidence supporting the theory that it is possible to learn and snooze. For students who facing learning hundreds of Chinese characters to reach a confident level of language fluency, the opportunity to […]
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