China’s Ministry of State Security has issued a warning to students seeking to study abroad: don’t cast yourself as a regime opponent in your college application essay. An article shared by the WeChat account of the Ministry of...
In Peter Hessler’s latest piece for The New Yorker, “How Chinese Students Experience America,” he notes that “COVID, guns, anti-Asian violence, and diplomatic relations have complicated the ambitions of the some three hundred...
Today’s quote is a rumination on the fatal stabbing of a delivery man in Qingdao. In early December, a neighborhood security guard stabbed a food delivery man during a conflict about whether the latter could park his moped...
At the Los Angeles Review of Books’ China Channel, Lu Xiaoyu, a doctorate candidate at the...
In 2012, China became the world’s largest source of overseas students, and the number of...
As many Chinese parents seek alternatives to mainstream education for their children, U.S....
Following a recent Peking University announcement of a vote on Professor Xia Yeliang’s...
Bo Guagua, the younger son of ousted Chongqing Party chief Bo Xilai, has enrolled in the Law School at Columbia University, according to the school’s online records and other sources. From Joanna Chiu and Patrick Boehler...
On Friday, a San Mateo, California coroner said that the injuries of Ye Mengyuan confirm that she was killed by a fire rescue vehicle after surviving the crash landing of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 in San Francisco on July 6. Ye...
People in China continue to mourn high school students Wang Linjia and Ye Mengyuan who were killed in the Asiana Airlines crash at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday. More details have emerged about the girls, who...
For the New York Times, Didi Kirsten Tatlow reports on a dilemma facing many globalized Chinese parents: For many cosmopolitan Chinese parents, the agonized deliberations look like this: How Chinese should our child’s education...
The New York Times reports on the growing trend of well-to-do young Chinese students attending preparatory schools in New York City in effort to gain the upper-hand when later applying to U.S. universities. By introducing a few...
Late last month, The Guardian reported on Li Yang, a 26-year-old graduate student at the UK’s University of Bath, who was jailed for trying to bribe his professor after failing his master’s dissertation: A failing...
Kurt Campbell, assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, states in his article on Politico that China and the U.S. should encourage study abroad programs to strengthen ties between young people:...
As many Chinese high officials send their kids overseas, some stability-obsessed Party members warn that those children might undermine the “red regime”. From John Garnaut at Foreign Policy: The Arab Spring that...
As more and more Chinese students are seeking alternatives to the stressful gaokao (college entrance exam), some are making their way to foreign universities where they find their original values subverted by culture shock....
While many U.S. colleges see a boom in applications from China, many applicants rely heavily on education agents who are sometimes not above using shady tactics to help their clients through the unfamiliar admission process....
An exchange program between Yale and Peking University (Beida) is to be cancelled because of “lower than expected enrollment”, to which dissent among Yale faculty may have contributed. From Gavan Gideon at Yale News: In a...
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