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The Double Education of My Twins’ Chinese School In a recent New Yorker article, Peter Hessler probes his twins’ experience attending elementary school in China compared with their schooling in the United States, all compared with their Chinese great-grandfather’s...

Seemingly contradictory to Xi Jinping’s rhetoric that constantly builds tension between China and the West, China’s consul general in Los Angeles has published this newsletter seeking friendship and exchanges with the United States. Such statements are approved by...

Stephanie Yang of the Los Angeles Times has followed up with younger professionals in China who are beginning to leave their high status, high pressure positions, move out of the urban area and seek a less prescribed lifestyle. The cause is far more than Covid...

A remarkable event occurred this year when Adam Foster received a personal letter from the president of China, Xi Jinping. As chair of the Helen Foster Snow Foundation in Utah and great-nephew of Helen Snow, Adam had written Xi emphasizing the importance of creating...

Writer and thinker, Peter Hessler, probes the complex Chinese censorship that recently led to cancellation of his visa to teach in China. For over 20 years, he has written about his in-depth…

The slanting afternoon sun cast sharp shadows as An Wei, the host of a rural Chinese teaching project I had joined, showed us the caves where An Shang villagers lived 20 years before.  “This is where I visited my uncle’s family in their cave,” he said, leading us into...