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... a Canadian-American couple with M.A.s in Intercultural Studies trying to live into and love - and some days just survive - China.

The mini-victories, potholes, questions, misperceptions, complaints, amateur documentaries, and people from our daily stumblings through the intercultural terrain all make regular appearances here, along with the occasional cultural analysis geekfest piece betraying the fact that we probably spent way too long in grad school.
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46 years after his death, John Leighton Stuart’s request to be buried in China is finally granted.
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English speakers go to China to teach English. Chinese speakers go to…? Africa. In their blog, some imported Chinese teachers describe the beginnings of a Ugandan Chinatown and describe their first experiences of ever feeling like true foreigners.
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The Tarim mummies unearthed in Western China, an ethnically contentious and politically disputed region, are one of the world’s most fascinating recent archeological finds. But they’re also controversial. The oldest is 3,800 years old, and not East Asian.
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Time made a deal with Google to put thousands of images online, many never before published. See here for some great examples.
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A five-year ‘bridge-blogger’ on how the Chinese internet changes the millennia-old, near hopeless system of peasants petitioning the central authorities against their local overlords, who usually have the power to suppress all news of their misconduct.
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An unqualified nightmare.
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We saw two Chinese movies recently that might be worth watching for the cross-cultural issues they bring up.
Pushing Hands / 推手 / tuī shǒu
Pushing Hands is a family drama in which a successful Chinese immigrant, along with his American wife and their young ABC son, bring the grandfather from Beijing to live with them in [...]
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Dozens of thousands of factories have already closed, with thousands more expected to follow. Al-Jazeera reports in a short video.
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Shannon teaches English on a university campus in Tianjin. One of her fellow teachers assigned students homework where they have to talk to a foreigner, and Shannon is under attack.
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A self-described Chinese “Memory Keeper” talks about his teachers — hunger, China’s residency laws, homelessness, and prison — in an award acceptance speech he never delivered.
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