by Nancy Pine | Aug 21, 2023 | Blog
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...
by Nancy Pine | Jun 20, 2023 | Blog
Fraught Relations, Friendship or Both? 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...
by Nancy Pine | Feb 16, 2023 | Blog
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...
by Nancy Pine | Dec 2, 2022 | Blog
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...
by Nancy Pine | Jul 5, 2022 | Blog
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 experiences in China beginning with a Peace Corps assignment in the middle of...
by Nancy Pine | Jun 14, 2022 | Blog
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...
by Nancy Pine | Feb 16, 2022 | Blog
I am not an opera lover, but weeks saturated in it in the poor Chinese village of An Shang captured my emotions and helped me to appreciate it a bit more. One night, villagers gathered in a courtyard to welcome visitors. At the urging of those around her, one woman...
by Nancy Pine | Oct 21, 2021 | Blog
Recent article about One in a Billion in the Press-Telegram Smashing Sparrows in the War of Ideas by Larry Wilson Early childhood education expert Nancy Pine was giving a talk last week about her remarkable new book, “One in a Billion: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey...
by Nancy Pine | Jul 30, 2021 | Blog
Xiaowei Wang—artist, writer and coder—has written an engrossing set of stories about the creative and ever growing use of technology in the villages and towns of China. Rural people come to life in Blockchain Chicken Farm And Other Stories of Tech in China’s...
by Nancy Pine | Mar 30, 2021 | Blog
Peter Hessler’s article, “Manufacturing Diplomacy,” delves into the little known world of China’s myriad owners of small manufacturing enterprises who strengthen ties with the United States. It has reminded me once again, that while headlines shout hostile words...
