Kenya in the eyes of a Chinese reporter AMONG the increasing numbers of Chinese citizens going to africa in recent years are correspondents sent by the Chinese media. They gradually familiarize themselves, and write n...Kenya in the eyes of a Chinese reporter AMONG the increasing numbers of Chinese citizens going to africa in recent years are correspondents sent by the Chinese media. They gradually familiarize themselves, and write news reports and stories展开更多
AN Yongyu, 75, is proud of the African arts and crafts adorning his Beijing apartment. The 24 years spent by the veteran Chinese diplomat in Africa has left him with an endearing fondness for the continent and to this...AN Yongyu, 75, is proud of the African arts and crafts adorning his Beijing apartment. The 24 years spent by the veteran Chinese diplomat in Africa has left him with an endearing fondness for the continent and to this day he still works as a consultant to promote Sino-African relations at the Chinese-African People's Friendship Association and China-Africa Business Council.展开更多
Every day in China, you see things you don’t see elsewhere. For foreign-ers who uproot themselves and make China their second home, living and working in this land of opportunities and possibilities is anything but e...Every day in China, you see things you don’t see elsewhere. For foreign-ers who uproot themselves and make China their second home, living and working in this land of opportunities and possibilities is anything but easy. Culturally, my home country, Singapore and China share many similari-ties but that does not translate into展开更多
LAST September, Chai Ran, my classmate and roommate in Shanxi, and I took a train to Yuanping to visit our second home. Twenty-five years ago, we 31 students from Beijing went to live in the Xiadalin Village in Yuanpi...LAST September, Chai Ran, my classmate and roommate in Shanxi, and I took a train to Yuanping to visit our second home. Twenty-five years ago, we 31 students from Beijing went to live in the Xiadalin Village in Yuanping, Shanxi Province, where we lived and labored for seven years. In our railway car, Chai told me that Yuanping, to which the Xiadalin Village belonged in the past administration, was celebrating its emergence as a city. Chai had married a villager and had returned to Beijing only two years ago. Her son and daughter, who were both born in the village, had just visited there and had brought her the news. Although I knew that Yuanping had changed a great deal, I was still unable to imagine what it had become, since I had left eighteen years ago. In my memory, it was only a series of streets with展开更多
文摘Kenya in the eyes of a Chinese reporter AMONG the increasing numbers of Chinese citizens going to africa in recent years are correspondents sent by the Chinese media. They gradually familiarize themselves, and write news reports and stories
文摘AN Yongyu, 75, is proud of the African arts and crafts adorning his Beijing apartment. The 24 years spent by the veteran Chinese diplomat in Africa has left him with an endearing fondness for the continent and to this day he still works as a consultant to promote Sino-African relations at the Chinese-African People's Friendship Association and China-Africa Business Council.
文摘Every day in China, you see things you don’t see elsewhere. For foreign-ers who uproot themselves and make China their second home, living and working in this land of opportunities and possibilities is anything but easy. Culturally, my home country, Singapore and China share many similari-ties but that does not translate into
文摘LAST September, Chai Ran, my classmate and roommate in Shanxi, and I took a train to Yuanping to visit our second home. Twenty-five years ago, we 31 students from Beijing went to live in the Xiadalin Village in Yuanping, Shanxi Province, where we lived and labored for seven years. In our railway car, Chai told me that Yuanping, to which the Xiadalin Village belonged in the past administration, was celebrating its emergence as a city. Chai had married a villager and had returned to Beijing only two years ago. Her son and daughter, who were both born in the village, had just visited there and had brought her the news. Although I knew that Yuanping had changed a great deal, I was still unable to imagine what it had become, since I had left eighteen years ago. In my memory, it was only a series of streets with