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  • Antidote to culture shock: Drink plenty of water

    2016-08-24

    After receiving admission letters from several graduate schools in Europe, Theo Aperkor, a young man from Ghana, thought carefully before deciding to accept a scholarship in China.

  • Journeyman's stories

    2016-08-24

    Liking it all is part of the trip, as one songwriter-turned-author tells Mike Peters.

  • Proud to return for second China stay

    2016-08-19

    The week after Merita Cuadari married young diplomat Kujtim Xhani in 1983, she left her home country Albania for the first time.

  • Expat consumes life in Chinese tea

    2016-08-19

    Obsessive viewing of martial-arts films as a teenager didn't turn Warren Peltier into a fighter-instead he became fascinated with tea, eventually moving to Fujian province to pursue his passion and write a book about the brew. Sun Li chats to the man who loves a cuppa.

  • Tracing Grandpa's dream

    2016-08-19

    The now-elderly descendants of 15 boys sent by the imperial Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) court to study in the United States some 140 years ago reminisce about what it meant. Wang Ru reports from Tangshan.

  • Mandarin for money or the joy of learning

    2016-08-19

    She comes across as shy and reserved at first - but when Victoria Zanello, 23, was on stage taking part in a Chinese proficiency competition in Montpellier, southern France, her confidence with the language and deep affection for Chinese literature was there for all to see.

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