When I was 18, I travelled to Beijing for the first time.
“Read ten thousand books and travel ten thousand miles.” — A saying by Dong Qichang, a painter of Ming Dynasty (1368—1644), has always inspired me.
I was a simple and innocent little girl when I first heard of you. In my mind, you were a poetic dreamland reminiscent of bountiful verses such as “Four hundred eighty splendid temples still remain, of Southern Dynasties in the mist and rain.”
From Dec 18 to 19, I and other international students in Nanchang, Jiangxi province, embarked on a 4-hour bus ride to a landmark of Chinese history that existed way before we were born.
I came to China in 2019 to pursue my master's degree in Accounting at Zhongnan University of Economics and Law.
Janko Šćepanović, a Montenegrin postdoctoral fellow from the School of Politics and International Relations of the East China Normal University (ECNU), shared his life in China at a special micro-documentary titled Going Forward Together for 15 Years.
Alicia Gina Victoria grew up in a Chinese-Indonesian family in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Nathania lives in Manado, Indonesia. She was admitted to the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Shenzhen in 2020.
Santosh Kumar Bose and Prianka Howlader are a couple from Bangladesh. They graduated with PhD degrees in Biochemical Engineering from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP), China Academy of Science (CAS) under the CASTWAS President's Fellowship Program.
Mohamed Jihad Mohamed Moustafa, an Egyptian student at Communication University of China, who goes by his Chinese name Liu Zhengxi, is curious about Chinese kung fu.