If you’ve ever been to China during Spring Festival (Chinese New Year), you know how impossible it is to make
Tag: Vocabulary
The Pride of Gull
Like most children’s fables, this story features a simple sentence structure, but an upper-intermediate word list, perfect for picking up
The House Behind
Unlike most Chinese poetry, which requires about 7 billion years of specialized study to understand (and which I won’t even
Famous Chinese Authoress
This one-page lower-intermediate essay covers the biography of BingXin, a famous authoress from the early 1900′s. The essay writer also
Apparently, Dreaming about Temples is Usually
Gotta love dream dictionaries – this online Chinese dream interpretation site categorizes dream meanings based on symbolism. This page addresses
News: Twitter Chairman Says Users Now Exceed 200
This very short blurb from Sina.com features an announcement by Twitter chairman Jack Dorsey that Twitter has now exceeded 200
Feeling
A passage from a BLCU textbook in which a university student laments about catching a cold. This essay focuses on
The Story Behind the Idiom
As you’re probably aware, most Chinese idioms are 4-character constructs that make little sense unless you know the story behind
My First Workplace Color
As pop-psychology self-help books from Japan take aim at the Chinese market, we’re seeing more and more reads like this
Wolf Goes Fishing
EmailFacebookGoogle+PinterestTwittertumblrReddit As vaguely sordid fables go, this one’s fairly tame, resulting only in some humiliatory retribution and a lost tail
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