Podcasts about Chinese school

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主播：Wendi（中国）+ Erin (美国）歌曲：Chinese New Year大家过年好！今年的春晚大家都看了吗？就像是咱们过年都会看春晚一样，在美国，也有人会为了春节做一些特别的事。主播Erin在美国也感受到了浓浓的过年气氛。今天我们来聊一聊，在美国，人们是怎么庆祝中国新年的。01. 在美国，中国新年也会放假？在美国，很多人都会庆祝中国新年。那么，is there a day off for Chinese New Year? 中国新年也会放假吗？答案是： kind of（有的会）!主播Erin之前在New Jersey（新泽西州）上学时，everyone in the district had Lunar New Year off（学校都会在农历新年放假）。现在在Maryland (马里兰州) 上学，尽管他们don't officiallyhave the day off（不会官方放假），但是你如果celebrate Chinese New Year（庆祝新年）and want to have off that day（想请假）， your absence is excused（你缺课也是可以的）!不仅是学校，对于大多数businesses（企业） 也是一样，即便they don't celebrate it，they will respect your traditions（尊重中国的传统）。02. 在纽约和洛杉矶的唐人街都会有新年活动在中国新年期间，像主要城市 NewYork和Los Angeles will hold events at their Chinatown（在唐人街举办活动）。主播Erin最喜欢的一项活动就是the traditional Chinese Lion Dance（中国传统舞狮）。去年，Erin的爸爸和弟弟甚至signed up （报名）for a class。今年，纽约唐人街 ishosting a parade（游行），with stunning outfits（特色的服装），dragon dancing（舞狮），以及martial art performers（武术表演）。It is all so cool that China's traditions are alive in other countries. 看到越来越多的中国传统能够走到海外，真的是很自豪。03. 华人社区的中文学校会举行晚会Chinese communities（华人社区） 比如说Chinese School（中文学校） willhost performances （举办表演）orprovide Chinese food（提供中餐）tocelebrate the new year （庆祝春节）。在这里学习的学生 willoften perform traditional Chinese dancing（表演中国传统舞蹈）， ChineseYo-yo（抖空竹），martial arts（武术），singing（唱歌），and skits（小品）! They are all done by students who are there to learn Chinese. 他们不仅是学中文，还学会了很多中国的才艺。很多表演是are doneby little kids（由小朋友完成），而这些才艺都是 taught by the older kids（由年龄大孩子教授），这种 the interactions （互动）are adorable（可爱），有点像theolder kids are passing on（传递）Chinese traditions to the newer generation （新一代），确保 the traditions never die（这些文化不断流传下去）。• adorable/əˈdɔ:rəb(ə)l/ adj. 可爱的；讨人喜爱的04. 有些学校会上中国新年相关的课除了中文学校，有些学校也会有与中国新年相关的课。主播Erin在上中学时，很多老师会have a special lesson dedicated to Chinese New Year（讲一些春节主题的课）。而这些课程一般will fall either before or after Chinese New Year（春节之前或之后进行）。比如，Erin的西班牙老师会taught them to make Chinese Paper Cuttings（中国剪纸） before the New Year，并会将剪好的剪纸挂在 all around the classroom for decoration（装饰）。除了会上中国传统文化的相关课程外，还有的课上学生们会被允许bring in dishes（自己带菜）together to celebrate Chinese New Year, and they just have a class party with all the food everyonebrought（用自带的食物举办班级聚会）!Some of the Chinesetraditions（中国的一些传统）has been respected（尊重） and celebrated （庆祝）byanother culture .05. 美国公司会设计中国新年主题的产品一些西方的公司会create Lunar New Year inspired products（设计以农历新年为主题的产品）。比如，Coachcame out with bags with the year of the dragon designs（蔻驰推出了有龙设计的包），and Burberry came out withscarves forLunar New Year（而博柏利也推出了中国年特色的围巾）。除了上述品牌外，其他一些常规的clothing brands（服装品牌） 比如： Aritzia and Lululemon 也同样推出 pieces inspired by Lunar New year（新年系列的产品）。06. 游戏公司会出跟中国新年有关的奖励或者皮肤我们的主播Erin是一个游戏大玩家，所以她对于很多游戏都很熟悉。这些游戏公司会专门为中国新年create special events（设计特别的游戏情节） or skin lines（皮肤） 。比如： League of Legends （王者荣耀）每年都会creates a Lunar New Year skin line（皮肤）。Valorant（无畏契约）每年都会有an event pass（通关活动），玩家可以collectrewards relating to Lunar New Year（收集与新年有关的奖励），while also coming out with a skin line（同时也会推出新年相关皮肤）。The skins are very pretty.玩家们在玩游戏的同时，也感受到了中国春节的节日气氛。

Ondiro Oganga reports on African workers are most times abused while working abroad and this abuse goes unannounced and unpunished. Now, many are coming out to speak out against the abuse they endure working away from home. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/africandiasporanews/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/africandiasporanews/support

Many children of immigrants grew up learning their parents' language as their first tongue. Our first language was Mandarin, but like many other immigrant children, this was quickly supplanted by English. Despite attending Chinese School every week from the ages of 5 to 18, our current level of vocabulary and reading/writing skills are sadly on par with 5th graders in Taiwan, at best. As we've gotten older, we've both developed a desire to revisit our mother language as part of better understanding our cultural heritage as a whole. Not only do we need it to better navigate our mother country, but we also need it to communicate effectively with our parents and extended family. In Angela's case, in this past year after feeling less than sufficient with her vocabulary on a recent visit to Taiwan, she's even gone as far as to start taking conversational language classes to improve her Mandarin and fill in the gaps on everyday vocabulary she needs to sound, well... more like someone her own age! And of course - this is also a matter of pride! Mandarin is our mother tongue after all, so we want to be proud of having a level of proficiency worthy of that title. Being able to show off our skills and eavesdrop on conversations doesn't hurt either ;) Listeners - what are your experiences with your mother tongue? Are you highly proficient or also picking up the pace later in life? Write-in in the Spotify Q&A section or in our comments on social media! Follow us on Instagram at @whereareyoufrompod and on TikTok at @butwhereareyoureallyfrom --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/butwhereareyoureallyfrom/support

The globe may be warming, but that doesn't stop summer from coming to an end. So, in honor of the long weekend which symbolizes the transition from summer vacation to back-to-school, we dug up a couple gems from The Gist's archives. First up, to honor the return to school, we are replaying Mike's 2017 interview with Lenora Chu, author of Little Soldiers: An American Boy, a Chinese School, and the Global Race to Achieve, which tells the story of her American family's rude awakening to Chinese education practices. When Chu moved her family to Shanghai, she eagerly enrolled her young son into an elite Chinese public school. She expected academic rigor and an emphasis on work ethic. But she was surprised to find authoritarian teachers and desperate, obsequious parents. Then, to honor the long weekend, an encouragement to watch some 80s movies this weekend in the form of Mike's 2016 interview with Hadley Freeman, author of Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned From Eighties Movies (and Why We Don't Learn Them From Movies Anymore). Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara  Email us at thegist@mikepesca.com  To advertise on the show: https://advertisecast.com/TheGist  Subscribe to our ad-free and/or PescaPlus versions of The Gist: https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/  Follow Mike's Substack: Pesca Profundities | Mike Pesca | Substack  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Eleven people are dead in northeast China. Now, officials are under fire following a tragic roof collapse at a middle school gym. “Missing” Chinese foreign minister Qin Gang was sacked in a one-sentence announcement. Speculation on why is now running wild. A U.S.-born NBA star announces his World Cup schedule, but this time, he's representing America's biggest rival: China. After three years of closed borders, North Korea is giving the green light for a major diplomatic visit. Two delegations from China and Russia are set to arrive there soon. But what sparked the shift? ⭕️ Watch in-depth videos based on Truth & Tradition at Epoch TV

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Interested in the public relations and communications aspect of a global marketing career? Have a listen as Claudia Gioia, a powerhouse in the mar-comms field across Latin America, shares how advanced tech and data-driven insights and analytics have revolutionized the industry. Artificial intelligence, location-based targeting, and augmented reality — together with a thorough understanding of analytics — help practitioners better understand consumer behaviors and hit their KPIs so much faster than even a few years ago. In addition to data analytics, solid strategic thinking and impeccable communications skills are critical to international business success. Is it coincidence that these skills are also key to rising to the C-suite? Perhaps not. About Our Guest Claudia Gioia is multiple award-winning communications professional. She is the co-founder and managing partner of Perceptual Advisors, a full stack marketing and communications firm focused on founders, funders, entrepreneurs and disruptors. Throughout her career, she has held positions as president and CEO at Hill+ Knowlton LATAM and Caribbean; SVP of Americas at LLYC; and country manager of Latin America Technology Practices at Burson-Marsteller (currently BCW). Claudia has led international client work for Nestle, Ford Motors, Intel, Walgreens Boots Alliance, AT&T, Facebook, Allergan, Pfizer, Medtronic, HP, Unilever, Qualcomm, Sony, Accenture and FedEx, among others. She also advised on country branding, reporting directly to several regional and national mandataries. Among Claudia's accolades, she was recognized among the global top 100 most influential people by PR Week and won the iconic Gold Stevie Award for best executive of the year in Latin America. She holds a BA in Education and Psychology and is certified by the Yale University Management School and the Chinese School of Business (CKGSB) in global digital branding, by the University of Virginia in digital transformation, and by the Wharton School in entrepreneurship. About the Global Careers Podcast Series This podcast presents inspiring stories from seasoned professionals who have embraced a global role and reaped the benefits. We offer practical advice and insider tips across a broad swath of industries and fields around the world about what it is like to work globally. If you love adventure and thrive on taking risks and operating outside your comfort zone, join us as we explore the ins and outs of pursuing an international career! About GW-CIBER The George Washington University Center for International Business Education and Research (GW-CIBER) promotes the nation's capacity for international understanding and economic enterprise related to the theme of Institutions, Resilient Globalization and Sustainable Competitiveness.

A little about our history and how we grew up, our Chinese school experience in Macau and what can be totally different from your school experience. #school #macau #cantonese Watch us on Youtube! https://youtu.be/rFjyO0-y274 Claytreats: https://www.instagram.com/claytreats/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/outcaststhepodcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/outcaststhepodcast/support

Dwarkesh Patel is the host of The Lunar Society podcast, where he interviews scientists, historians, economists, intellectuals, & founders about their ideas. He also writes about tech, progress, talent, science, and the long-term over at his Substack. Dwarkesh has been described as “one of the best young podcasters alive”, and his Substack has been praised by the likes of Jeff Bezos, Paul Graham and Tyler Cowen. Important Links: The Lunar Society Dwarkesh' Twitter The Mystery of the Miracle Year Popularizers are intellectual market makers Scouting talent as buying options Show Notes: How to become a better podcaster The importance of curiosity Disagreement & problem solving “Computer programs are written by humans for other humans to read, and only incidentally for computers to execute” The difference between podcasting & essay writing Investing in public and private companies; human OS Premeditation & decision-making The mystery of the miracle year How much innovation is baked into the cake? How to cultivate young talent AI & education The importance of intellectual market makers Scouting talent as buying options Interviewing Sam Bankman-Fried Effective altruism & virtue signalling If you do everything, you will win Books Mentioned: The Years of Lyndon Johnson; by Robert Caro What Works on Wall Street: A Guide to the Best-Performing Investment Strategies of All Time; by Jim O'Shaughnessy Little Soldiers: An American Boy, a Chinese School, and the Global Race to Achieve; by Lenora Chu Outliers: The Story of Success; by Malcolm Gladwell One Summer: America, 1927; by Bill Bryson The Lessons of History; by Will & Ariel Durant The Story of Civilization; by Will & Ariel Durant Fallen Leaves: Last Words on Life, Love, War, and God; by Will Durant

If you've ever had to sacrifice a Saturday morning to go to language school, or spend time slaving away at language school homework, this episode goes out to you :') Today we discuss our Chinese school & Korean school experiences - everything from the style of homework and tests, the feeling of accomplishments and the feeling of annoyance, and the value of knowledge we received from our language school experience!Support the showFollow us on social media @eatyourcrustpod

Ashikaga wisteria, yuzu, white rabbit, honeydew melon, brown sugar boba, chrysanthemum tea, vietnamese coffee, dragonfruit tea, white peach, candied plum, ube pancakes...if you want to fill your home (or a loved one's home) with these unique nostalgic scents, Baisun has you covered! We catch up with founder Brandon Leung about his journey building Baisun and what meaningful collaboration with AAPI creators and organizations can look like.About Baisun Candle Co.Founded in 2020 by Brandon Leung, Baisun Candle Co. creates hand-poured soy candles that are reminiscent and nostalgic to the AAPI community. Our mission is to celebrate the aromatic Eastern flavors & aromas one would typically find in an Asian kitchen or pantry through our candles and home fragrances. We hope you enjoy our traditional scents alongside some of our modern spin-off blends! Website: https://baisuncandleco.comInstagram: baisuncandlecoTikTok: baisuncandlecoCollab with Uproot Teas: giveaway!Related episodes: Quirks of Being Hmong American ft. Dee Dee ThaoQuirks of Being a Chinese American and a Korean American (part 1)Chinese School, Korean birthdays, and our names (part 2)How to support bamboo & glass:  

What is the topography of international-relations theory in the People's Republic of China? What is the "Chinese School of International Relations?" Astrid Nordin (King's College, London), Yan Xuetong (Tsinghua University), and Qin Yaqing (Peking University) join the podcast to answer these – and other – questions about Chinese international-relations scholarship. 

Like yours truly, Jonathan has traveled to 100+ countries, and has been an expat in a few (Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Hong Kong, China, Japan, and Mexico to some degree). Suffice to say, he speaks a few different languagesHe taught ESL abroad, commonly know as English as a Second Language. Personally, I wish this type of opportunity was around when I was growing up in jolly old England.As you can imagine , he experienced some  bizarre encounters, for better or worse, while gallivanting.Listen to his story about working in Saudi Arabia as it might surprise you. Also, hear about his first day in a Chinese School. Definitely, not your average teaching experience.Check him out here:https://findingfoodfluency.com/https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-4mIJ9aFl1v-Vm_HeCSVdAhttps://noworkandalltravel.wordpress.com/https://society6.com/travelator

Since the 1970s, Taiwan's university campuses have been integral to the island's music industry.Read the article by Sinead O'Connor at Asian Pop Weekly: https://www.theworldofchinese.com/2022/04/school-of-rock-tracing-taiwans-campus-music-scene/Narrated by Kaiser Kuo.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Frances Kai-Hwa Wang is a prolific writer, passionate speaker, multicultural educator, and activist on Asian Pacific American issues. In her new collection of essays, You Cannot Resist Me When My Hair Is in Braids, she navigated the space between cultures and reflects on lessons learned from both Asian American elders and young multiracial children. It's a rich space, filled with linguistic nuance that Wang so deftly weaved throughout her writing. In the aftermath of a messy divorce, Wang writes in hope of beginning to build a new life with four children, bossy aunties, unreliable suitors, and an uncertain political landscape. Her essays are peppered with a wide range of topics, including cooking food to show love, surviving Chinese School, being an underpaid lecturer, finding love in a time of elections, crying with children separated from their parents at the border, charting the landscape of frugal/hoarder elders during the pandemic, witnessing COVID-inspired anti–Asian American violence while reflecting on the death of Vincent Chin, teaching her sixteen-year-old son to drive after the deaths of Trayvon Martin and George Floyd, and trusting the power of writing herself into existence. Within the lyric essays, Wang found the courage and hope to speak out for herself and for an entire generation of Asian American women. Frances Kai-Hwa Wang is an award-winning poet, essayist, journalist, activist focused on issues of Asian America, race, justice, and the arts. Her writing has appeared at NBCAsianAmerica, PRIGlobalNation, Center for Asian American Media, Detroit Journalism Cooperative, Cha Asian Literary Journal, Kartika Review, Drunken Boat, and the Joao Roque Literary Journal. She co-created a multimedia artwork for Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, is a Knight Arts Challenge Detroit artist, and is a Communities Correspondent for the PBS NewsHour out of Dearborn/Detroit. Buy the Book: You Cannot Resist Me When My Hair Is in Braids (Made in Michigan Writers) (Paperback) from Third Place Books Presented by Town Hall Seattle. To become a member or make a donation click here. 

We're going back to school, but not just any school - Chinese/Korean school! We have had the pleasure of learning from each other's lived experiences, but we don't always get to talk about tangible skills that we'd like to teach one another. So  we decided to teach each other our mother tongues, for the laughs, epiphanies, and joy of being a student again.You can  look forward to phrases commonly used in K-dramas, Mandarin slang, even animal sounds (?!), and a bonus challenge at the end ;) So get your student cap back on to learn alongside us!How did  we do in learning new phrases? What else should we teach each other? Let us know by DMing us on Instagram @bambooandglass!How to support bamboo & glass:  

Did you know that the continent of Africa is one of the most diverse places on earth and there are more than 1500 languages spoken there?African Proverb “Wisdom is like a baobab (pronounced "baw - bab") tree: No one individual can embrace it. - Ghanaian proverb Word of the Episode Hela means "Money" in SwahiliWe've Got Merch! Support the PodcastThere are hoodies, t-shirts, sweatshirts, pillows, and more. Place your order at CleverlyChanging.Threadless.com.Let's Connect!Want to be a guest on an upcoming show? Just fill out this form, and we will send you an interview link when your request is approved.We're bringing back Cleverly Cultured Kids! To have your kids featured on Cleverly Cultured Kids, complete this Interview form for kids, and we will send you an interview link when your request is approved.You can call us directly now. Please leave us a voicemail and let us know how you are enjoying the show or share your questions.Cleverly Cultured KidsWe spoke with Maya a 13 year old who loves to read. Maya shared some of her favorite books, which were: Little Soldiers: An American Boy, a Chinese School, and the Global Race to Achieve by Lenora Chu The Giver by Lois Lowry Life of Pi by Yann Martel Little Women by  Louisa May Alcott Glimmer of Hope: How Tragedy Sparked a Movement by The March for Our Lives Founders Grown Folks SectionHere are my top three, check out the link in our bio to hear the full episode with all of our reading tips.1️⃣ While your child is young, even a baby, point out words all around you. Words are everywhere, if you love words like I do, share that love with your children.2️⃣ Show your excitement about new words by reading to your kids, even while they are infants. While my kids were little, I labeled common household objects that they could see.3️⃣ Read creatively. For instance, I cook with recipes and show my children the cookbooks so they can read which ingredients we need to use. I show them words on their shampoo and lotion bottles, in magazines, and on TV. (We also learn new words with on my iPad with apps and look up words in a dictionary.)Read this post "Reading Tips for Children ages 3-5" to see all of my early reading tips.Please Share This PodcastGet chatty and tell your friends about our podcast. While we love having a conversation with each other, the podcast will only exist if more people are listening. If you know someone with children or an educator, tell them where to find us. Our tips and tricks are beneficial to educators, parents who homeschool, and those interested in supplementing their children's education.Furthermore, wherever you listen to this podcast, please leave us a review. Reviews do a lot to encourage others to check us out and increase our visibility on those platforms.Lastly, if you want to hear more about homeschooling and how we have managed to make it work for our families, please check out our past episodes.ADDITIONAL DIRECTORIES:Luminosity | Spotify | iHeart Radio | Stitcher | TuneIn | Apple ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Just basically ranting about how complicated it is to type in Chinese, and how tough it was for us to learn a third language that both our parents don't speak. We also talked about the education methods in Macau (China) and broke down a few things about the Cantonese language. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/outcaststhepodcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/outcaststhepodcast/support

We might've grew up thousands of miles apart, but our love of Cantonese culture unites us! Thanks, Steph for coming back on to do our first, full Cantonese episode! Check out Steph's new Cantonese learning bootcamp! https://subtlecantoneselearning.com/use code: SCLxTalkshop to save $10! (Code expires September 13, 2021)

Charley, Karlie, Amy and Viv chat everything Chinese school! Follow besean and slide into our DMs and keep the conversation going! https://www.instagram.com/besea.n/ https://twitter.com/besea_n Support the podcast by buying besean a coffee, 100% of the donations now go towards besean! http://bit.ly/Kofibesean Sign petitions: STAND WITH MYANMAR AND TAKE ACTION https://linktr.ee/meemalee ESEA HERITAGE MONTH: Sign the petition to support the launch of East & South East Asian Heritage Month in the UK https://www.change.org/ESEAHeritageMonth We've reached 30,000 signatures! Sign the petition for media outlets to stop depicting ESEA people in Coronavirus related media: https://www.change.org/p/bbc-stop-depicting-east-asians-in-coronavirus-related-media Credits: Jingle by John Clapper: https://www.instagram.com/john_clapper/

When should you tell someone that their baby is ugly? What hazing should you expect if you marry a Hmong person? What does it mean if you have a dream about your teeth falling out? What should you NOT do when visiting Korea, Laos, or China? Two of our favorite episodes from season 1 are "24. Quirks of Being a Chinese American and a Korean American (part 1)" and "25. Chinese School, Korean birthdays, and our names (part 2)," and we wanted to expand this series and share Hmong culture as well. We have tons of fun chatting about superstitions, pregnancy dreams, weddings, birthdays, dating, new year celebrations, common household items, and words that sounds the same in Hmong, Korean, and Mandarin. We also end by sharing some Hmong and Konglish jokes!More about Dee DeeDee Dee is a Hmong American woman from Fresno, CA. She is currently based in New York City, where she can be found exploring her role in the world, crying over Korean dramas, or searching for good eats.Follow us on:⟡ instagram: @bambooandglass⟡ links to various platforms: beacons.ai/bambooandglass⟡ website: www.bambooandglass.buzzsprout.com⟡ Da Eun: @daeunkm⟡ Sophia: @sophiasysunSupport the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bambooandglass)

This is part two of a conversation with Michael Chen of AAPI.Liturgy. Recorded on April 30th, 2021Find Michael Chen on instagram @aapi.liturgy Michael Chen lives in Philadelphia with his wife Rachael and their two boys.  He is a graduate of Princeton Seminary where he earned his Master of Divinity, and is currently working on a PhD in Marriage and Family Therapy at Eastern University.  As a long time campus minister, he has a heart for helping people live more fully into their unique identity and vocation.  In his free time he likes exploring cities and eating dumplings.  Also, he is a karaoke champion. Maggie offered a recap of last week: We talked about collective trauma, what it is and how that impacts the way we view healing. We explored what it means to be Asian, a name that encompasses a vastly diverse group of people from 50+ countries. Michael reflected on his own experience of growing up and working in predominately white spaces and how race has been somewhat of a binary construct of black and white. Through his work and research getting his PhD he started AAPI.Liturgy where he seeks to create a space to expand, explore and examine what it means to be both Asian American and Christian.Currently Michael is researching for his PhD and the overarching questions for him has been: What does it mean to Asian American and Christian? What is Asian American theology? Michael says “The term ‘Asian American' comes out of the 60's. It's a protest identification really trying to capture the essence, fervor of the Civil Rights Movement.” His big question is, “What happened?”Michael grew up in a Chinese Church that was somewhat divided. There was a Chinese congregation that was Mandarin speaking. With the influx of Chinese immigrants they grew a Cantonese congregation. And then the children of those immigrants needed their own congregation, and so they formed an English congregation. There were three congregations within one church and they just “did” church and the topic of what it means to be Asian or Asian-American in Church was not a topic of discussion. Michael was around Asians weekly and yet there was no exploring the deeper meaning of their sense of isolation, of being marginalized, of experiencing micro-aggressions or being stuck or feeling stuck in predominately white spaces and structures. “So we talked about Jesus… and we were just with one another which on a level was wonderful and great but in the back in my mind I had that question of ‘what does it means to be Asian American' that never made it into the church space.”It was this inquiry got filtered through literature and sociology classes, and through Seminary (at Princeton) where he studied white theologians—Calvin, Kuyper, Augustine, Luther…. The question, “Is there an Asian American theology?” was never given much room. Michael began to wonder, has anyone written on Asian American Theology? In his research he came across a math professor who was doing research and writing articles on Asian American Liberation Theology. He found the early course readers of the 70s, at the beginning of Asian identity as a political identity as a movement, as well as the conversation that was happening around Black Liberation Theology,  the work of James Cone, [Gustavo] Gutierrez. At last it seemed he had found them—"Here are folks that are thinking about and talking about the experience of marginalization! People who are looking at the biblical narrative and finding themselves in it."Michael gives the example from the Japanese-American Rev Dr. Jitsuo Morikawa who converted to Christianity from a Buddhist background. He was interned in Arizona during WWII and began preaching the gospel at the internment camp. After this experience he went to seminary and eventually pastored a predominately white church in Chicago. At that time the sentiment was, “A Jap will always be a Jap. The Japanese will always be suspect.” Michael notes that for Morikawa to be in that position of widespread prejudice and to subsequently see the church grow, it is a powerful move of the spirit. When Michael read some of Morikawa's writing around the Asian American experience in the Exodus story, it was the first time he had seen or heard anyone thinking about Asian liberation in light of the Biblical narrative.  It brought so much deep emotion for him and inspiration in thinking about the Asian American story in light of the movement from slavery into freedom — He asks, “Where are we now in our Exodus journey? And what does mean to become a priesthood of believers with our particularity, with our story, with our art, with our culture, with our poetry, with our faces?”Danielle is struck by how in the United States we have collected vast ethnicities of people groups into continents. She's says it is almost as if we (in the US) can not bare the particularity in their ethnicities. And yet she feels that as we come into the spaces of story there can be solidarity. She names for her, being Mexican is her particularity, she finds so much solidarity and inspiration in the stories coming out of Cuba Colombia, Argentina and other countries in South America. It moves her and makes her feel like she too can express her self and her story.  Danielle remarks that it is in this continent grouping that happens in the United States, that for Michael as a [Chinese] man, he ends up looking towards other ethnicities within the continent grouping that the US has labeled “Asia” to find pieces to put together to form a theology.Michael says yes, and it is in part redemptive for his particular family story. His maternal grandfather was imprisoned by the Japanese in Taiwan, which was under imperial Japanese control. His grandfather spoke English as a translator, which during WWII made him suspected of having allegiances and ties to the United States. He spent two years in a Japanese in POW camp, after his mistreatment there he subsequently died a few years after his release of kidney failure. So for Michael to look to the Japanese experience in America is healing and redemptive to him, expressing a movement of the spirit and movement forward for all of us to find language, models and resources for our collective liberation. "When we can get into the particularities, the closer they are to our own stories they will move us and shape us and form us, then it will move us towards freedom and life. " We are hungry to know the end of the story. The wordlessness of the trauma we are in, the confusion and fragmentation that we are hearing, feeling, sensing… Michael says we need stories.Danielle remarks that last week we were talking about collective trauma and this week we are talking about collective redemption. She says there is an offer of hope for collective liberation for what we are going through as a country right now—She said in the churches she grew up in and in the places she's at, there isn't a theology for collection liberation. “If we gloss over everybody as a white theology then we actually miss out on a framework that God has provided for collective liberation.”Michael thinks one direction that Asian Americans needs to go in the coming years is addressing the large financial gap among the diverse and vast Asian American community. And knowing that it will take a tremendous about amount of work and intentionality to see a collective healing and liberation.Maggie recalls a quote “If even one person is not free, then no one is free.”She mentions the 2019 Korean film Parasite which was an up close looking at classism—naming the tremendous wealth gap and how the classes viewed each other. It made her think about what the wealth gap is like here in America, and even from a hyperlocal perspective in the area where she lives in the PNW with big companies like Microsoft and Amazon.  There are a lot of wealthy people from SE Asia and India living in this area and it changes the way the wealth gap looks here specifically and she knows that it is not reflective of the larger experience in America. Parasite had helped her to become more aware of the wealth gap and classism among AAPI.Michael said Parasite was brilliant story-telling. He remember the idea of the smell, the particular smell associated with different parts of our world and our culture. He believes a lot of the issues we faced can not be solved through our logic, it has to be embodied. Parasite was able to show class structures and identity issues through sensory and embodied engagement.Michael wanted to say the name of John Huynh, who was stabbed in Bothell, WA this week because he knows that it will not get a lot of media coverage—first because we have be so inundated with seemingly ceaseless stories of death and violence, but second because most of the news stories around anti-Asian violence have been towards elders or women, and this was a young Asian man in his 20s. It caught his attention because of the nature of his death—he was stabbed in the heart. What came to mind for Michael was a word in Chinese,忍 (rěn) - He says most Chinese words are pictographs, which means the image conjures up also the meaning of the word. The picture is a knife on top of a heart, and the Chinese word means “to tolerate" or "forebear.” One of the complexities that he wrestles with is the idea of forbearance that requires him to cut off his heart, to cut off desire, to cut off parts of himself just to survive. He says as Asians “we've known that collectively for so long that we don't know any other way.” He says to keep cutting your heart has become a survival mechanism just to make it through. It's complicated, we've got to tolerate and bear a lot in life, as we all do in our various spheres of life… But the reminder of this man's death has brought him to ask, "What is my heart? Are there places that I am cutting off, that I feel like I need to cut off [just to survive]?Danielle says the loveliness that we're describing in the movie parasite comes in contrast with the rage-hate that is happening in our current world. In a discussion with some some colleagues, she asked “what's the word for resilience in your language?” Sam Lee also brought ren from Chinese and she said, “damn if I want to be resilient like that.” When Sam asked Danielle what the word is in Spanish and Danielle admits she doesn't know one. The closest word is aguantar, “just make it” or “bear up.” Danielle says the question she hears loudest is, “how can we bear up when people are stabbing us in the heart?”Michael says, it's too costly to keep doing the bearing up. “I need to find a better way…[we] can't keep taking the cuts and the stabs.”Danielle names that he is on the screen with two women, Danielle is half German and Maggie is mostly Swiss. There is complexity even in our conversation. The temptation to talk too much and not allow silence but then to allow also silence. This is a healing process for him, to talk about these issues that he's not had space for. “It's amazing, but it feels like a foreign country.”Maggie adds, “And a foreign language, if they're really aren't words for resilience that don't involve cutting off parts of yourself.”Danielle says it feels good that there are so many  complexities and characters in the Chinese language and that that feels like there can be space for finding a third way.Part of Michael's migration trauma was not wanting to learn the Chinese language because it would move him into the area of what he was trying to avoid: It wasn't a good American endeavor to take time on a Saturday to go to Chinese School. Now he's sad but catching up. One article he read said there are 13 different words in Chinese for shame. “To be that well aquatinted with shame that you need that many different words to describe the nuances of the experience is very indicative.” Michael finds himself moving towards relief to think about having a community of folks to find a different way of being.Maggie says that is what has been so inspiring about Michael's presence on AAPI.liturgy—he has created a space that explores and expands and holds the complexities of his face and his faith, creating a sense of belonging for those that have been on the margin and can understand that liberation theology. “You literally creating what has not yet be done. It is beautiful.”Michael says, “I love that word, belonging." It is a sense of salvation—that feeling of connectedness and communion, a feeling of acceptance and belonging in a deep visceral experience.Danielle thinks that is what people are deeply longing for in the US and yet it is manifesting as violent rage in some. The prophets and pastors that are in those spaces need to say “enough is enough.” Almost like a parent to a teen; “Actually no you can't do that. And maybe your thinking hasn't changed but you have to stop that.”Michael names, there's a lot a stake.Maggie says it feels good to allow space, to offer a sense of wordlessness. As she reflects back on the conversation last week about how our bodies are not meant to hold or process what we are experiencing without a ritual without meaning making…  To sit with you two to have space and to allow it.Danielle's essay comes out this week and she will have to update it to include the new names as much as she can. She has an expectation of violence but also a hope that there won't be. It is a deep ache. “Dear Lord Jesus, have mercy on us!”Michael is reading: Jitsuo Morikawa, Roy SanoMichael is listening to: “You will be found” Dear Evan HansonMichel is inspired by: the show Warrior, the way it handles Asian American identity, history and language is brilliant.If you are thinking: What can I do to stop racial violence? Danielle encourages you to sit down with whoever is in your circle (family, spouses, children, neighbors etc) and have a conversation about what it means to love people well and to see people's faces well. And if you hear something or see something when you are out, you have the freedom to say “Let's not do that, we're trying to stop this violence.”Keep the conversation moving, be actively involved with the people in your proximity.

Hi hello! Welcome back to my podcast :) It's been a hot second since I've last uploaded, and since then, there have been some changes. (Title change...) Today, I go into what I've been up to, why I changed my podcast name, and other things. I missed you guys, and I hope you enjoy

From 2018 - Lenora Chu, author of "Little Soldiers: An American Boy, A Chinese School, and the Global Race to Achieve."

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Following on the previous BATG episode about the Chinese education system, in this installment, Jeremiah and David are pleased to continue this discussion with award-winning journalist and author Lenora Chu. Lenora is the author of Little Soldiers: An American Boy, a Chinese School and the Global Race to Achieve, a melding of memoir and journalism that brings to light the enormous cultural differences between the Chinese and American education systems. In recounting the sometimes traumatic adjustments of her young son to the academic environment of an elite Shanghai elementary school, Chu explores the complex web of social conditioning and parental cooperation that results in the high-achieving “little soldiers” in the Chinese system and weighs the advantages and disadvantages of the East and West educational models. The conversation also touches on the gaokao, the controversial college entrance exam, the supposed “creativity gap” in the Chinese model, and the similarities in the phenomenon of “helicopter parents” in the two cultures. As a commentator, Chu has appeared on NPR, CBS, BBC, and the CBC, and her articles and op-eds have been published in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Cut, and Business Insider, among others. 8.1.2

Hey guys! Welcome to another episode on the teenage canvas podcast! This week, I have my best friend, Risha on this episode to share how is it like being Indian in a Chinese school. She takes us on her school life journey and share some advices for all of you guys that are in the same situation. You're not alone. Me and Risha had a great chat sharing all her experiences with you guys and also stressing about exams. We tell a little on how it works here in Malaysia. This episode is really inspiring and interesting for every teen to listen. I'm proud of my best friend being able to face her journey strongly. So with no time to waste, go listen to this week's episode! Follow @teenagecanvaspodcast on instagram for more updates! Music by Vodovoz

Manyee and I continued to chat about life in Chinese school. She said nobody would say they love going to Chinese school, and she didn't think quitting was even an option. I am sure she is glad she did, because she is not able to converse fluently and able to communicate with her relatives in Hong Kong with no problem.

This week, we're taking it back to one our favourite interviews. On this episode, we are joined by the founders of Subtle Asian Traits, Angela and Kerry Kang. In late 2018, the Kang siblings and their friends started a Facebook group during a weekend Chinese class. What was meant to be fun turned into a cultural phenomenon. Hundreds of thousands of Asian millennials joined the Facebook group in a matter of days. The group is now the biggest Asian community on Facebook but with more than 1.5 million members, SAT is also one of the biggest Facebook groups in the world. From juicy unposted memes to being invited to speak at Facebook, we talk about everything with co-founders of Subtle Asian Traits, Kerry and Angela. We discuss the humble beginnings of Subtle Asian Traits which was only founded a year ago by a group of friends that met at Chinese School. Was this the only useful that has come out of Chinese School? What started out as memes about collecting toothpicks and serviettes at restaurants became the biggest community on Facebook. This immense response was because this was the first time there really was something relatable for Asian-Australians and Asian-Americans.Subtle Asian Traits didn’t just become a safe place for bubble tea addicts to find one another, but it became a comfortable place to share life experiences. Who else could relate to the strict career expectations that migrant parents place on their children? These posts harvest great love and support by other members of the group, where strangers often comment encouragement and advice as they feel a sense of bond and connectedness with other members in the community.Despite the highs, Angela and Kerry share the difficulties the group has had. This includes thriving for more diverse representation of all Asian ethnicities within the groups, and, the struggles of monitoring and approving every single post to ensure quality memes.Subtle Asian Traits: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1343933772408499/Join our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/lemonpodcastFollow on Instagram: http://instagram.com/lemonpodcastHosted by:Phillip Kuoch: https://www.instagram.com/sirkuoch/Tom Tan: https://www.instagram.com/tommayo/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE: Messages from the COVIDSafe app…we all downloaded it, yeah? Susie has a bad memory, NRL COVID-19 breaches, the Auslan interpreter’s big game, The Last Dance: The Vegas Trip, Aussie Cycling legend Anna Meares talks releasing her first autobiography, the (creative?) hats that Chinese School students are making to stay socially distant, our unsuccessful Zoom meeting, subjective memories, Ash plays a prank, Smarter Than Suse, Susie’s Hen’s night photo, Cecil Healy: unrecognised Aussie hero, Birds Of Tokyo talk recording an album in isolation, Susie inducts SWA #22, Luttsy’s Recommendation Station, Craigie Mac recommends…, Luttsy’s meat pack and See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Part 2 of us sharing our experiences as Asian Americans, but more importantly, as a Chinese American and Korean American. Asian America is so diverse and we oftentimes use it as a blanket term to group all of us together. But do we REALLY share all the same experiences? Here's this episode, where we get to engage in a fun yet informative discussion about experiences with Chinese school, Korean birthdays, what our names mean, etc., and we discover whether we actually share the same experiences or if they may be insular to the particular cultural backgrounds we come from. We learned a lot from each other in this episode, and we hope you can too!Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bambooandglass)

I'm in Philly auditioning for shizzle so here is another solocast! I talk about my recent great weekends at Governor's Comedy Club and Catch a Rising Star, going to Chinese school for 10 years as kid, what not to do on a date as a comedian, and the 1st argument between my current lady and I. FOLLOW @imjustakidpodcast & @camachbro! WRITE A REVIEW. 5 star RATING! SUBSCRIBE!

On air November 4th, 2019. Recorded November 2nd, 2019. US Democratic Presidential Primary candidate Andrew Yang is best known for his advocacy of universal basic income and his plan to give every American $1,000 a month. But before entering politics, Andrew Yang was just another Taiwanese-American kid forced to go to Chinese School on the weekends. In a recent campaign video, Andrew recalled his experiences feeling stuck in “permanent third grade” while at Chinese School, and the lack of accountability when it came to tests and homework. In this episode of BCTP, Patricia breaks down Andrew's thoughts line by line, and discusses what makes Chinese School unappealing to Chinese-American kids, the challenges of running a Chinese School classroom, and why Chinese School as an institution might not deserve such a bad rap. Show notes for this episode and all other episodes of the Bad Chinese Teacher Podcast can be found at badchineseteacher.com. If you enjoyed this episode, make sure to subscribe, leave a comment, and rate us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, and YouTube. Connect with us on Instagram (@badchineseteacher), Twitter (@badchinesepod), and Facebook. Follow Patricia's personal account on Instagram (@patricialiu), and check out her writing at blog.patricialiu.net. New episodes of The Bad Chinese Teacher Podcast are posted every Monday at 8am Eastern.

On today’s episode we are joined by the founders of Subtle Asian Traits, Angela and Kerry Kang. In late 2018, the Kang siblings and their friends started a Facebook group during a weekend Chinese class. What was meant to be fun turned into a cultural phenomenon. Hundreds of thousands of Asian millennials joined the Facebook group in a matter of days. The group is now the biggest Asian community on Facebook but with more than 1.5 million members, SAT is also one of the biggest Facebook groups in the world. From juicy unposted memes to being invited to speak at Facebook, we talk about everything with co-founders of Subtle Asian Traits, Kerry and Angela. We discuss the humble beginnings of Subtle Asian Traits which was only founded a year ago by a group of friends that met at Chinese School. Was this the only useful that has come out of Chinese School? What started out as memes about collecting toothpicks and serviettes at restaurants became the biggest community on Facebook. This immense response was because this was the first time there really was something relatable for Asian-Australians and Asian-Americans.Subtle Asian Traits didn’t just become a safe place for bubble tea addicts to find one another, but it became a comfortable place to share life experiences. Who else could relate to the strict career expectations that migrant parents place on their children? These posts harvest great love and support by other members of the group, where strangers often comment encouragement and advice as they feel a sense of bond and connectedness with other members in the community.Despite the highs, Angela and Kerry share the difficulties the group has had. This includes thriving for more diverse representation of all Asian ethnicities within the groups, and, the struggles of monitoring and approving every single post to ensure quality memes.Subtle Asian Traits: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1343933772408499/Join our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/lemonpodcastFollow on Instagram: http://instagram.com/lemonpodcastHosted by:Phillip Kuoch: https://www.instagram.com/sirkuoch/Tom Tan: https://www.instagram.com/tommayo/TRANSCRIBED AUDIO****PLEASE NOTE that this was automatically transcribed and it may not be accurate. Please refer to the actual audio file for any quotation or referencing*****[00:00:00] So how we go about our roles is literally. Oh, Angela, you're the leader because you're the oldest and you must be the most adult. Okay, I'll carry your dirty designs because you did this cause and it's like, oh, Kathleen, you're doing the counting and money hype aside because you did v.c accounting. Like this is the extent of our roles you can imagine is like 18, 19, 20 year olds. We're like, what the hell are we doing?[00:00:32] Hello and welcome to Lem's weakling conversation on today's episode, we are joined by the founders of sutil Asian Traits, Angela and Kari came in late 2008 team the cang Samplings in different started a Facebook group during a weekend Chinese class. What was meant to be fun turned into a cultural phenomenon. Hundreds of thousands of Asian millennials joined the Facebook group in a matter of days. The group... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

At what point is the price of preparing children for academic excellence simply too high? To answer this question, Lenora Chu spent years investigating the Chinese educational system, spurred in no small part by her son’s experiences in a public school in Shanghai. Based on her findings, Lenora subsequently wrote the best-selling and hard-hitting exploration of China’s educational system in a global perspective, Little Soldiers: An American Boy, a Chinese School, and the Global Race to Achieve. On this episode, Lenora discusses the challenges of writing a book with such personal subject matter as well as the main takeaways from her up-close comparisons of the U.S. and Chinese educational systems. Enjoyed this episode? Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts and follow @taforta on Twitter.

At what point is the price of preparing children for academic excellence simply too high? To answer this question, Lenora Chu spent years investigating the Chinese educational system, spurred in no small part by her son’s experiences in a public school in Shanghai. Based on her findings, Lenora subsequently wrote the best-selling and hard-hitting exploration of China’s educational system in a global perspective, Little Soldiers: An American Boy, a Chinese School, and the Global Race to Achieve. On this episode, Lenora discusses the challenges of writing a book with such personal subject matter as well as the main takeaways from her up-close comparisons of the U.S. and Chinese educational systems. Enjoyed this episode? Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts and follow @taforta on Twitter.

Chinese School was a school I attended with my siblings every Saturday morning. We were taught to speak Chinese at home but reading and writing was a different animal. This week, I take a look back at that love-hate relationship. Featured recipe: Dim Sum Siu Mai

Congratulations Toronto and Canada, we are the champions!! We did it!! History was made so I may have taken more liberties than I normally do in my conservative, boring life.  I like boring, I like being at home and going to bed early, and I’m glad life can finally get back to normal with less late nights and stress replaced by more family time, more sleep, more martials arts and Crossfit.  Life isn’t always boring though, I’m getting a new car soon next week my challenge to my mastermind group was to CN Tower Edgewalk, that’s walking around the outside of CN Tower at 1,168 feet high or 116 storeys. Nothing beats a low risk thrill for team building followed by a mastermind lunch in the 360 Restaurant for blue sky dreaming ideas of wealth hacking. Speaking of Wealth Hacking, while I scroll through the pictures on my phone from the last week its been busy: Our AirBnb is rocking, a single family home we would normally rent for $2,000 has booked $4,600 on AirBnb for June only, we are 77% booked so we can definitely break $5,000. I’m preparing a presentation right now actually for iWIN members tomorrow night to share how we arrived at this point with all the automation, apps, technology, hardware etc… as I didn’t lift a finger. Cherry and I attend an Entrepreneur Bootcamp for two whole days and I have many takeaways around apps, scheduling, and scaling businesses Sadly I missed a few hours of the 2nd day as we were out late the night before celebrating history as our Toronto Raptors won the championship.  We sent a video of apology to our hosts as we were cheersing tequila shots. They understand. This is history and life is all about experiences. We didn’t get in till the sun was coming up and I won’t be doing that again for a while. Saturday was another loaded day as the kids had the day off from Chinese School and I was teaching my oldest to ride a bigger bike.  It’s really interesting to practice influence skills on a five year old, she resisted and wanted her old bike but she’s a champ and now only wants her new bike. From there is was my clients’ open house of their new build, two semi detached houses, each with basement apartments. I’ll have the Steve Ford, one of the investors on this project on this podcast shortly to explain the ins and outs of new construction.  He’s a project manager for a major builder and an expert in construction. As always, we will bring you experts on this show. There is nothing wrong with just starting out but those starting out should not be offering coaching services. Just saying. For some background on these new builds, my clients bought two houses: one a single family, the other a duplex, severed the backyards and built two more houses, each with a basement suite.  Each new build is rented for $3,400 plus utilities and over $10,000 in rent for these now seven units. This is next level investing so stay tuned for Steve Ford! This episode is brought to you by iWIN’s Wealth Hacker Conference: On November 9th, 2019 at the Toronto Congress Center, we will be sharing the best secrets of the rich including: 10X mindset Six figure income, 15 mins per day, options trading from your phone Earning income like the bank passively, better returns and more stable than the stock market by private lending Investing in real estate: apartment buildings, raising capital, AirBnb, student rentals, accessory apartments, land development And so much more as we confirm more Wealth Hacker experts who do, no theory BS Tickets are on sale now at: www.wealthhacker.ca and don’t delay, prices are going up and if you want VIP, we only have 100 of them and they will sell out first. www.wealthhacker.ca if you’re interested in the best side hustle and income replacement opportunities. November 9th we have the rich and successful sharing their secrets on how they became rich and successful. You don’t want to miss this event. Police Officer Dave Knight Says You Have The Right, No, A Duty To Build Your Wealth On to this week’s show! Officer Dave Knight is a friend, an investor, client of ours, fellow podcaster of the First Responder Wealth Network spreading the word how even for those with a pension, people need more, especially for those who risk their personal safety everyday to protect all of us. Dave is also a bigger fan and student of Grant Cardone having taken some of his masterminds and apartment building investing mastery classes delivered by Grant himself. Dave also has insights into Grant’s strategy and lessons as to what goes into his over $1 billion dollar assets under management portfolio.  This was totally not what I expected. Have a listen, buy a timmies for a first responder when you see them in line and I proudly give you officer Dave Knight.  

Welcome to episode 122 of the EdTech Situation Room from January 23, 2019, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) discussed highlights from the recent Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, and a series of articles further highlighting our ongoing "Technology Correction." These included a new fine for Google because of GDPR, and an excellent podcast interview with Shoshana Zuboff (@shoshanazuboff) about her new book, "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power." Controversy at the University of Oklahoma over a student-created racist video, the precipitous stock value crash of Apple over the past quarter, and Chinese School use of AI-powered facial recognition to take attendance in classes. Google's recent purchase of Fossil's smartwatch division, the possibility that Facebook's recent '10 Year Challenge' is a clever way to build an even greater catalog of surveillance data about people worldwide, and several other articles touching on privacy issues and concerns rounded out the show. Geeks of the week included the 140 character math function visualization platform Dwitter, and the upcoming NCCE Digital Leadership Summit in Seattle. Please follow us on Twitter @edtechSR for updates, and join us LIVE on Wednesday nights if you can (normally) at 10 pm Eastern / 9 pm Central / 8 pm Mountain / 7 pm Pacific or 3 am UTC. All shownotes are available on http://edtechSR.com/links.

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The Chinese education system has had its criticisms, but many argue that it delivers, at least in the larger cities such as Shanghai and Hong Kong. Students are pushed to study, with many students attending after-school tutoring, and qualities such as respect and dedication are held to a higher standard than that of western education systems. GUEST: Lenora Chu (American journalist, author of Little Soldiers: An American Boy, a Chinese School, and the Global Race to Achieve’) Theme music: Asian Wonders by Butterfly Tea

The Chinese education system has had its criticisms, but many argue that it delivers, at least in the larger cities such as Shanghai and Hong Kong. Students are pushed to study, with many students attending after-school tutoring, and qualities such as respect and dedication are held to a higher standard than that of western education systems. GUEST: Lenora Chu (American journalist, author of Little Soldiers: An American Boy, a Chinese School, and the Global Race to Achieve’) Theme music: Asian Wonders by Butterfly Tea

This week our question comes from Alex, who asks us “Will I get bullied at school in China?” If you want to ask us a question just go to our voicemail page and leave us your question! In This Episode, We Talk About… Nora’s fact: Incredible Red Beach in Panjin, China Journey to the West:... Read More The post TWCC104 – Chinese School Bullies, Episode 104 appeared first on Written Chinese.

In this episode we talk to Lenora Chu, author of Little Soldiers: An American Boy, a Chinese School, and the Global Race to Achieve, which tells the story of China’s education system through the perspective of an American mother and journalist. Joined by co-host Ruoping Chen of AmCham Shanghai, we discuss Chu’s experience’s raising her son in the Chinese education system, how this system differs from the U.S., and what she’s learned from her firsthand encounter with Chinese schools.

On The Gist, we can have sympathy for all kinds of people—just not the guy who loses all his money on bitcoin. In the interview, Lenora Chu tells the story of her American family’s rude awakening to Chinese education practices. When Chu moved her family to Shanghai, she eagerly enrolled her young son into an elite Chinese public school. She expected academic rigor and an emphasis on work ethic. But she was surprised to find authoritarian teachers and desperate, obsequious parents. What, if anything, should the U.S. borrow from the Chinese education model? Chu’s book is Little Soldiers: An American Boy, a Chinese School, and the Global Race to Achieve.   In the Spiel, what the abortion issue did to sort the parties. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On The Gist, we can have sympathy for all kinds of people—just not the guy who loses all his money on bitcoin. In the interview, Lenora Chu tells the story of her American family’s rude awakening to Chinese education practices. When Chu moved her family to Shanghai, she eagerly enrolled her young son into an elite Chinese public school. She expected academic rigor and an emphasis on work ethic. But she was surprised to find authoritarian teachers and desperate, obsequious parents. What, if anything, should the U.S. borrow from the Chinese education model? Chu’s book is Little Soldiers: An American Boy, a Chinese School, and the Global Race to Achieve.   In the Spiel, what the abortion issue did to sort the parties. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lenora Chu, an American journalist, decided to send her son to a local public school when she and her family relocated to Shanghai. In this episode of the podcast, she talks with Marty West about what she learned about the Chinese education system, which is also the topic of her new book, Little Soldiers: An American Boy, A Chinese School, and the Global Race to Achieve. You can read a print interview of Lenora Chu conducted by Michelle Rhee for Education Next here: http://educationnext.org/american-perspective-on-chinese-schooling-lenora-chu-little-soldiers-michelle-rhee

When American journalist Lenora Chu moved to Shanghai, she faced tough choices about where and how to educate her kindergarten-age son. She chose an elite state-run school down the street, but soon found that its authoritarian teaching style offended many of her sensibilities of how to nurture a child. At the same time, she found herself appreciating the discipline and mathematical ability that the system was instilling in Rainey. She embarked on an investigative mission to answer the question: What price do the Chinese pay to produce their “smart” kids, and what lessons might Western parents and educators learn from this system? Her book, Little Soldiers: An American Boy, a Chinese School, and the Global Race to Achieve, tells not just the story of Lenora and Rainey, but also the story of China’s educational system as a whole, backed up by research and interviews with a variety of students, teachers, and experts. Jeremy and Kaiser sat down with Lenora to discuss the Chinese educational system and the range of pros and cons it presents, and to compare that with the dramatically different American system. Recommendations: Jeremy: A Washington Post article titled “To deter North Korea, Japan and South Korea should go nuclear,” written by Bilahari Kausikan, formerly the permanent secretary of Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It’s an interesting and compelling argument, whether or not you agree with it. Lenora: Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change, the new book by Ellen Pao, a woman trying to pull back the curtain on gender discrimination in Silicon Valley. Kaiser: He recommends that residents in his town of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, vote for Hongbin Gu, a woman running for the Chapel Hill Town Council who is a quantitative psychiatric researcher originally from Shanghai.

In April 1992, China implemented a law that, for the first time, allowed families from other countries to adopt Chinese children. Since then, around 120,000 Chinese have been adopted abroad, with 80,000 finding a home in the United States. But when adoptions started in that first year, only 206 came to America. Rae Winborn is one of that first wave of adoptees, brought over at just nine months old to the U.S. to grow up with a white, middle-class American family in Durango, Colorado. Charlotte Cotter was adopted a few years later at the age of five months in 1995, and grew up with two moms in Newton, Massachusetts. She is now the president of China’s Children International, a support and networking organization run by and for Chinese adoptees around the world, which she co-founded in 2011. Kaiser and Jeremy had a conversation with Rae and Charlotte about their experiences growing up in America, why they both chose to learn Chinese and spend time working in China — which Rae described as the “Chinese-American experience on steroids” — and what it was like when Charlotte made contact with her birth family. Recommendations: Jeremy: Little Soldiers: An American Boy, a Chinese School, and the Global Race to Achieve, an excellent book on education by Lenora Chu. Also, The China Questions: Critical Insights Into a Rising Power, by Jennifer Rudolph and Michael Szonyi. Rae: italki, a private tutoring service for language learning where you can get Skype lessons to improve your Chinese. Charlotte: Somewhere Between, a documentary of Chinese adoptees in America by Linda Goldstein Knowlton, and Twinsters, a movie about two Korean twins separated at birth and raised separately in America and France. Kaiser: The Book of Swindles: Selections from a Late Ming Collection, a book written by Yingyu Zhang and translated by Christopher G. Rea and Bruce Rusk, which describes the incredibly clever ways in which people cheated one another in 17th-century China.

In a globalized world where millions of people travel between east and west each year and formerly separate cultural zones now overlap, it has never been more important to understand the values and perspectives that inform cross-cultural relations. Two new works of cultural observation and commentary put the differences in education, identity, and politics in the United States and China in perspective: Lenora Chu’s Little Soldiers: An American Boy, a Chinese School, and the Global Race to Achieve, examines the benefits and drawbacks of China’s famously rigorous education system through the lens of her son’s experience attending an elite public school in Shanghai. The book then expands to consider what Americans can learn from Chinese pedagogy, and, more broadly, what the purpose of education is. Gish Jen’s The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap, is a wide-ranging investigation of how differing conceptions of the self in Asia and the western world can explain the incongruous expectations and assumptions that can produce awkward or confusing cross-cultural encounters. Gish Jen explores how emphasis on the individual or on context in western and eastern cultures respectively anchor very different understandings of the same events and behavior, which is ultimately reflected in distinctive educational, business, and governing institutions.   On September 18, 2017, both authors joined the National Committee for a conversation about their books, contemporary east-west exchange, and how people on both sides of the cultural divide can better understand and learn from one another, in a conversation moderated by NCUSCR Senior Director for Educational Programs Margot Landman. A former TV correspondent with Thomson Reuters and a contributing writer with CNNMoney.com, Lenora Chu is an award-winning journalist. Her freelance work has appeared in The New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, APM’s Marketplace and PRI’s The World. She has lived in Shanghai since 2010. Ms. Chu holds degrees from Stanford University and Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism, and she speaks Mandarin. The author of six previous books, both fiction and non-fiction, renowned writer Gish Jen has published short pieces in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, and dozens of other periodicals and anthologies. Her work has appeared in The Best American Short Stories four times, including The Best American Short Stories of the Century, edited by John Updike.  Ms. Jen is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has been awarded the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction, a Guggenheim fellowship, a Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study fellowship, and numerous other awards. An American Academy of Arts and Letters jury granted her a five-year Mildred and Harold Strauss Living award. Ms. Jen delivered the William E. Massey, Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization at Harvard University in 2012.  She is a graduate of Harvard University and the Iowa Writers Workshop.  

In a globalized world where millions of people travel between east and west each year and formerly separate cultural zones now overlap, it has never been more important to understand the values and perspectives that inform cross-cultural relations. Two new works of cultural observation and commentary put the differences in education, identity, and politics in the United States and China in perspective: Lenora Chu’s Little Soldiers: An American Boy, a Chinese School, and the Global Race to Achieve, examines the benefits and drawbacks of China’s famously rigorous education system through the lens of her son’s experience attending an elite public school in Shanghai. The book then expands to consider what Americans can learn from Chinese pedagogy, and, more broadly, what the purpose of education is. Gish Jen’s The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap, is a wide-ranging investigation of how differing conceptions of the self in Asia and the western world can explain the incongruous expectations and assumptions that can produce awkward or confusing cross-cultural encounters. Gish Jen explores how emphasis on the individual or on context in western and eastern cultures respectively anchor very different understandings of the same events and behavior, which is ultimately reflected in distinctive educational, business, and governing institutions.   On September 18, 2017, both authors joined the National Committee for a conversation about their books, contemporary east-west exchange, and how people on both sides of the cultural divide can better understand and learn from one another, in a conversation moderated by NCUSCR Senior Director for Educational Programs Margot Landman. A former TV correspondent with Thomson Reuters and a contributing writer with CNNMoney.com, Lenora Chu is an award-winning journalist. Her freelance work has appeared in The New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, APM’s Marketplace and PRI’s The World. She has lived in Shanghai since 2010. Ms. Chu holds degrees from Stanford University and Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism, and she speaks Mandarin. The author of six previous books, both fiction and non-fiction, renowned writer Gish Jen has published short pieces in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, and dozens of other periodicals and anthologies. Her work has appeared in The Best American Short Stories four times, including The Best American Short Stories of the Century, edited by John Updike.  Ms. Jen is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has been awarded the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction, a Guggenheim fellowship, a Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study fellowship, and numerous other awards. An American Academy of Arts and Letters jury granted her a five-year Mildred and Harold Strauss Living award. Ms. Jen delivered the William E. Massey, Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization at Harvard University in 2012.  She is a graduate of Harvard University and the Iowa Writers Workshop.  

Chinese-American journalist Lenora Chu arrived in Shanghai in 2010 with her family enrolling her son in a top-performing school. Chu discusses the culture clash she experienced in her book, “Little Soldiers: An American Boy, Chinese School, and the Global Race to Achieve," and what America could learn from China.

David Rank became the leading diplomat for one of America’s most important embassies during the transition when Iowa governor Terry Branstad formally succeeded former Montana senator Max Baucus as U.S. ambassador to China on May 24, 2017. He soon found himself in a moral quandary: Carry out what he believed to be a deeply misguided order from the president of the United States to withdraw from the Paris Agreement on climate change, or resign in protest. He chose the latter, becoming the highest-ranking State Department official to do so — thus far — under the Trump administration. Kaiser met with Dave in his home in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C., to better understand his reaction to Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement. Dave also discussed the current state of U.S.-China diplomacy, and looked ahead at how the two countries might work together in the future. Recommendations: Dave: The Maine Woods, by Henry David Thoreau, gives an inside look at both the author’s famed advocacy of rugged individualism and the remarkable transformation of 19th-century America due to the Protestant work ethic and the new industrial economy. Kaiser: Little Soldiers: An American Boy, a Chinese School, and the Global Race to Achieve, by Lenora Chu, is set for release in September, but you can pre-order this well-written exploration of China’s educational system now.

最近，一部BBC拍摄的纪录片引发了中国和国际社会的关注。这部纪录片叫做《我们的孩子足够坚强吗？中式学校》（Are Our Kids Tough Enough? Chinese School），一共有3集，主要讲述了5名中国教师在英国的一所公立中学，实施4周中式教学实验的故事。 50名英国学生参加了这个教学实验。在4个星期的时间里，他们要穿统一的校服，每天早上7点到校，在校时间长达12小时，中间有两次吃饭休息时间。每周还要举行一次升国旗的仪式。课堂上学生们以记笔记为主，放学前他们还要负责打扫教室。对于不听话的学生，老师会让他们出去罚站，甚至请家长来学校谈话。在中国，学生们对于以上这些都非常熟悉，但纪录片中的英国学生却感到很新奇。有不少英国学生对中国老师的教育方法产生了负面情绪，但也有学生表示认同。一个月之后，这50个英国学生和同年级其他学生一起，参加了一场考试。最终中式实验班在数学、科学、中文等科目上的成绩均优于英国学生班。分别的时候，老师和学生都很舍不得，就连平时不听话的学生也掉下了眼泪，表示这是他们一生中难忘的经历。 BBC的发言人说，中国上海的学生在PISA（国际学生评估项目）测试中获得第一名，而英国学生的排名很差。他们希望通过做这个教学实验，把中国传统教育搬到英国学校，看看是否能得到启发。 这部纪录片播出后，大部分外国网民批评英国学生缺乏纪律性，说他们不尊重老师。很多中国网民对这个教学实验产生了质疑，说纪录片中的教学方法并不能代表现在中国的教育方式。我认为，西方教育以鼓励和启发为主，中国教育需要学生有很强的自律性，直接把中国教育照搬到英国学校，对于老师和学生来说都很难适应。但是作为一个电视节目，这部纪录片能够吸引观众，引发人们的关注和讨论，就算是成功的。 亲爱的读者，你对这部纪录片有什么样的看法呢？欢迎留言与我们讨论！

全部文稿请关注我们的公众号，周六第三条~This is NEWS Plus Special English. I'm Mark Griffiths in Beijing. Here is the news.Many people in Britain say the nation's own education system needs to improve after a BBC documentary about Chinese teaching methods sparked fierce debate. The documentary, entitled "Are Our Kids Tough Enough? Chinese School", was broadcast recently in Britain and focused on Bohunt School in Hampshire, to the southwest of London. Five Chinese teachers were recruited to the school to teach 50 students for a month using teaching methods used in China. The documentary attracted an audience of 1.8 million and an 8.6 percent audience rating on the first day it was broadcast, more popular than the "No 2" show the previous week. The documentary also sparked heated debate online and became a hot topic on Twitter, with many education specialists participating in the discussion.Many British Twitter users complained not about the Chinese teachers, but about their own country's education system. One Twitter user named user@dkenstone said that British education has gone soft, the teachers are abused and students have no discipline. On the BBC website, a debate entitled "What can British schools learn from the Chinese education system?" became especially popular.Kathryn James, deputy general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers in Britain, defended the British school system and said it had advantages over China's. She said students' autonomy, questioning and the development of skills to allow them to think for themselves are key elements in the British approach, and do not appear to be part of the Chinese method; and as teachers involved in the program take lessons from the experiment, no doubt the Chinese teachers featured will also learn from the UK's approach to teaching.You are listening to NEWS Plus Special English. I'm Mark Griffiths in Beijing.International agribusiness companies have intensified their efforts to ease public fears over genetically modified products in China, taking to social media platforms to popularize GM science and interact with the public. "Croplife International", the trade association representing a number of international biotechnology companies, has launched its own Sina Weibo and Tencent WeChat public messaging accounts to engage the public about genetically modified food products amid intense debate about their safety."Croplife China", a division of the organization in China, represents 13 international agricultural businesses in China, a majority of which are involved with genetically engineered seeds and the associated insecticides and herbicides.The Chinese government adopted the policy earlier this year, vowing to increase research and safety management of genetically modified food and promote GM science.Many GM products are not being marketed in China because of public disapproval.Some international agribusiness companies have not been allowed to conduct their business in China, since the country has so far only allowed the marketing of domestic GM papaya and cotton.This is NEWS Plus Special English.