Blogs from Jinhua, Zhejiang, China, Asia
March 3rd 2011
Greetings friends! I've officially arrived in Jinhua and have been here for three days now. Amazingly, I had very little jet-lag after a 14-hour flight and so have been on a normal schedule since I arrived. I've received several questions about exactly why it is I am traveling to China, so I shall respond to this inquiry now. For the past two years, my Masters research focused on the development of children's "face space," a theoretical model that explains the way in which we organize and process faces of different races, ages, and sex. In particular, I am interested in the way in which race is processed as a perceptual and social category and how this develops over time. In my Masters, I tested Caucasian 5- and 8-year-old children living in the Niagara region of Ontario. ... read more
October 20th 2003
Ni hao once again. The basketball tour finished on a great high. After loosing all four games to the Americans (embarrisingly getting thrashed by 30 in the last game in Changshu...and 'loosing face' according to our financier Mr Liu), we regathered and enjoyed a well earned 2 day break which included an 8 hour bus drive from Yangzhou to Jinhua, Zhejiang province, to play a 2 game series against Chinese National League champions the Guangdong Tigers. They are preparing for their upcoming season and had 3 national team reps and 2 American imports. Mr Liu's pants were getting higher and higher as he was showing the obvious signs of worrying about loosing even more face. Before our first game coach Wazza and myself did another impromptu English class at the local Jinhua English club after being ... read more
