In 2012, I left Singapore for Guangzhou, the thousand-year-old commercial capital of Lingnan, to pursue my dream of studying traditional Chinese medicine (TCM).
“Home is the smallest country, and country is the family for tens of thousands.”
My Chinese name is He Ruizhi, which literally means how wise and smart I am. How great it is! I like my Chinese name.
Apparently, the Chinese people seem to be not different from the people in our country. But when it comes to interpersonal relationship and love, that’s when I start to really experience some cultural differences.
Since the minute I was on board on my first flight to the East, I had been imagining how Chongqing, the new world which I would soon meet a dozen hours later, looked like.
The year 2021 marks the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the Communist Party of China.
When my grandpa was a child, he and his family left China, crossed the South China Sea and came to live in a foreign land in order to get rid of poverty.
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