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In China, names have deep significance. They can influence consumer behavior and imagination. When a foreign brand wants to enter the Chinese market, the first and the most important thing to do is to have an excellent and well-thought Chinese name that caters to the Chinese people. I consider these

Located in Tanzania, Serengeti is Africa’s largest plain. In Swahili, Serengeti means endless. We saw and loved this typical African scene: animals rest and eat peacefully; powerful lions and meek impalas happily live together on the same land; sausage tree stands alone on a vast land under the sun;

In my life, I had the pleasure to occasionally notice the differences when Chinese culture crashed with American culture. Once I went to YMCA to exercise. I was there a few minutes early so I started to chat with the instructor. She was a happy grandmother with seven children and three grandchildren

Often times we heard people say learning Mandarin Chinese is difficult. Indeed it is one of the most difficult languages in the world. Being a China native, I can’t appreciate enough of the beauty of the Chinese language until I have a need to translate it into English. For example, 杭州八景 the eight f

After three-month using the Chinese social media almost daily, I can say I am somewhat an expert. 新浪Sina.com（means new wave in English）has a twitter equivalent called 新浪微博weibo (means small chat in English); 人人renren.com （means everybody in English）and 腾讯QQ also have twitter equivalent 微博weibo. Face

As I studied the four legendary Chinese stories (牛郎织女Niulang and Zhinv, 孟姜女哭长城Lady Meng Jiang cried the Great Wall, 梁山伯与祝英台Butterfly Lovers, 白蛇传White Snake), I ran into Butterfly Lovers’ beautiful violin concerto http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVwaPb4xyg0. It was so amazingly moving! The music led m

Our Yahoo class group is exploded these days with views from our classmates who went back home to China for a visit and those who came to California for a US-visit. Cost of living is really cheap in USA One of my Chinese classmates took her family to California to visit Stanford with the hope [...]

Chinese people love luxury, wealthy Chinese even more so. The word luxury came from Latin word “Lux” meaning light. What is luxury in China? It is Louis Vuitton, Lamborghini, Chateau Lafite, Lexus and La prairie. I like how the Chinese define the characters of luxury goods: they must have long histo

• Beijing the Great Wall of China长城 Built in 210 BC by the first emperor Qin Shi Huang, the Great Wall stretches for more than 5500 miles. • Beijing Forbidden City故宫 and Tiananmen Square天安门 Forbidden City (also known as the Imperial Palace Museum) was commissioned by the third Emperor of the Ming Dy

“Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China’s Past and Present” was written by an American journalist Peter Hessler. China from 1999 to 2004 was a period that sounded so familiar and yet so distant to me. I can very much relate to many things in the book. Thought 1: When I first came to the US, [...]