View from our balcony

On the other side of the canopy of trees is a track. At 630 AM each morning, we are awakened by loudspeakers blaring some sort of patriotic music for 30 minutes - the "class monitors" from the Communist Party gather at the track and make speeches until 730, when they march off to class. The monitors take attendance and report any untoward activity by classmates or professors to the Party Secretary in each Department or School.

Jimei University, Xiamen, Fujian Province, China

September 9th 2007
We've finished our first week of teaching here. I'm teaching Human Resources Management to undergraduate Seniors and my husband is teaching Business Negotiation to undergraduate Sophmores. The Chinese students are all very polite and hard-working. Their English is quite good, as it should be, since they've been taking English classes since they were in Kindergarten. We are living in the on-c ... read more

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more

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