Chinese Cultural Learning Blog

Chinese Minorities 中国少数民族
There are officially fifty-six ethnic groups in China, including the Miao, Dai, Tibetan, Korean, Mongolian, Tu, Tong, Zhuang, and so forth. The majority group in China are the Han people. Many minority groups reside in the remote areas of Sichuang, Guizhou, and Yunnan provinces. Each ethnic group has its own unique traditions, customs [...]

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Limitations of Birth: The Abduction of Boys in China
Many American parents adopt children from China, mostly girls. The traditional idea of having male heirs combined with the Communist Party one child policy, on many occasions led to female infanticide. Over the last twenty years, however, educated parents (particularly in the cities), welcome girls and believe [...]

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Freedom in China 在中国的自由
As we discussed earlier, the culture and history of China has shaped the differences from the west in terms of human rights and the concept of freedom of speech and democracy. Through the history of China, we see that any anti-government movement only brings tragedy to the dissidents and their families.
Since the [...]

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Chinese Democracy 中国的民主
In the eyes of the Chinese, the US represents the western democracy, a fact which is learned by the Chinese in the classroom and from the media. The word of democracy only appeared in recent Chinese history, but it is written into the Chinese constitution and often mentioned by Chinese party leaders and [...]

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Secretary of State Hilary Clinton in China and Taiwan Issue
国务卿克林顿在中国以及台湾问题
On Friday evening, Feb. 20, 2009, Secretary of State Hilary Clinton arrived in the icy Beijing winter. Because of the connections built with China while she was first lady, and her continuous active role on political stage, people in China are paying great attention to Hilary’s [...]

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Sino-US Relationship Review: Secretary of State Clinton Visits China
中美关系回顾：国务卿克林顿访问中国
During the last two decades, despite the disagreement among the two countries such as Taiwan and Tibet, and occasional abrasions caused by incidents such as the U.S.-led NATO attack of the Chinese Embassy in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1997 and 2001 war plane collision, overall [...]

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春节快乐    牛年大吉
Happy Spring Festival, Great Prosperity in the Year of Ox
Welcome to 2009 the Spring Semester!
The time US college students return to campus for the spring semester, Chinese college students return home and celebrate the most important holiday in China for family reunions: Spring Festival. The date of Chinese Spring Festival varies every year according [...]

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News Stories of China (中国新闻故事)
For the last blog entry of this semester, I would like you to choose one area that you are interested in from the news stories listed below and further explore the topic and share your findings with everybody.
News Story One:
Following the two offices in Beijing and Guangzhou, the Shanghai Office of [...]

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Economic Crisis (经济危机)
The global economy has brought mutual benefit to all its participants, however any crisis in that economy results in a chain reaction. For instance, even people in China are gradually feeling the crisis that brought on by the Wall Street (华尔街) financial crisis. Chinese industries such as finance, IT, and real estate were [...]

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With an increasingly open policy to the world, the number of Chinese people traveling in the country and overseas increases every year, and the number of international tourists to China also increased. According to the Chinese Tourism Administration of the People’s Republic of China, the number of domestic travels within the country was 1.6 billion, [...]

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