by Alison | Oct 14, 2026 | Blog, Chinese Language and Culture
This semester, I’m auditing another Chinese Literature class. Since this class is called Chinese Literature II, I, along with the other students, assumed that the class would be more focused on recent literature. Our class last semester went from ancient Chinese poems...
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...
