by Alison | May 27, 2026 | Blog, Chinese Language and Culture, Just Life
In the Chinese literature class that I’ve been auditing, we spent several weeks looking at Tang and Song Dynasty poetry. I never imagined that I would enjoy poetry from these periods. I can barely understand English poetry unless someone explains it to me, but the...
by Alison | Mar 18, 2026 | Blog, Chinese Language and Culture, Just Life
This semester, I decided to join one of my roommate’s Chinese classes. When she told me that one of her classes is Chinese Literature, I was pretty excited as that is a topic that interests me. Really, literature from any culture is interesting to me, but since I’m...
by Alison | Dec 9, 2025 | Blog, Chinese Language and Culture, Just Life
The university where I teach has a really cool program for the students and the foreign teachers. We have dozens of foreign teachers from all over the world since our university is a foreign language university, and our school also has students whose major is teaching...
by Alison | Oct 31, 2025 | Blog, Chinese Language and Culture
As an avid reader, I really enjoy all kinds of books, and one of my favorite ways to learn Chinese is to read Chinese books. I prefer to read books written by Chinese writers, but if my friends recommend other books, then I also enjoy reading books that have been...
by Alison | Aug 22, 2025 | Blog, Chinese Language and Culture, Travels
Clara had some ideas for things we wanted to do today, but thankfully we got to sleep in first. I also wanted to wash some clothes, so while I waited for my friends, I washed some of my clothes in the bathroom sink. I didn’t expect to like washing clothes so...
