If you aren’t using Sina Weibo with your Chinese students, you’re missing out.
While many teachers have embraced social media to engage students outside of class, the vast majority of teachers have had little to no exposure to the social website with the most users in the world: Sina Weibo. Given the growing number of Chinese students in western universities and high schools, knowledge of Weibo (pronounced “way-bwuh”) is an […]
Busted: The top 5 ways that Chinese students cheat on their undergraduate applications to American schools (and what schools can do about it)
I recently came across an excellent report on the systemic problems that exist in the process of Chinese applicants applying to American universities. I was glad that the authors included the topic of elite Chinese high schools preferring their students attend highly ranked Chinese universities rather than any foreign university.
Photos of Beijing’s polution
Beijing’s horrible pollution – of such toxicity that by some estimates that on that historically terrible day breathing in Beijing was equivalent to smoking 20+ cigarettes – made international news over the past weeks. This isn’t a bad thing…but consider that apart from the aforementioned terrible day, Beijing usually doesn’t have the worst air quality […]
From the “Avoiding Trademark Infringement” Dpt.
A Nokia N9 for Â¥1180? An iPhone 4S for just Â¥2080? Sign me up! Oh, wait. It’s a Nokla N9 and a Phone 4S. Maybe I’ll pass. To be fair, though, we saw these ads on Fengxing (风行网)…a program used pretty much exclusively to download pirated movies. Intellectual property rights probably aren’t super important to […]