China Focus: Communicating across languages and cultures

An informative piece for anyone interested in living and working in China.

Roots

Roots identify where you came from But not where you are going Your starting point Was given to you Your ending point Is determined by you

Because of the pandemic, I am…

There is no single answer to the question of how the coronavirus pandemic has changed each of us. But it has changed all of us, albeit some more than others. As I listen to my family, friends and students, I hear four answers more than any others when this topic is discussed. I take some …

L.A. Times: Biden mulling Beijing Olympics boycott

It's a strategy that has never worked; but, hey, if the Biden administration wants the U.S. to boycott the 2022 Winter Olympics...well, it's American athletes and not the Chinese government that will suffer.

CGTN: Brexit is “harming me and my future”

A reminder that all choices in life have consequences. Buyer's remorse seems evident in many places inn the U.K.

A pocket watch

I'm not a sentimental person, but something about now having my grandfather's pocket watch has really gotten to me. I never knew three of my four grandparents. My father's parents never came to the U.S., and so I never met them. My mother's mother died when I was 14 months old. My mother's father died …