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I have more than 800 students. It’s hard to keep up with so many. Everyday I wonder to myself what they are doing and try to imagine their lives through their eyes. A student studies his English in some far off corner of the university library, cramming for another upcoming English exam. A young girl [...]
The following took place when I was still living in and teaching English in Yichun, a small city in Jiangxi Province. Jiangxi is located in the South of China. The province is most famous for being the capital of porcelain, and for being the starting point of the “Long March,” a political escapade led by [...]
Construction and destruction. A barrage of jackhammers greets me as I walk through Beijing with no particular destination in mind. I pass the loud pounding cacophony of a construction site. I stop to watch for a while. Men with hardhats are standing on what I guess used to be the foundations of some old building. [...]
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