Blog: An introduction to Chinese New Year!

Well, its almost that time of the year again; Chinese New Year, or known locally as Spring Festival 春节（Chunjie). As you know already, this is the biggest event of the year for China and the surrounding countries. The west has Christmas as its most dominant festival, China has Chinese New Year. If yo...

Jan 23,2019

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Blog: Using DiDi, China's leading Taxi App

In an earlier post, we introduced you to getting Alipay, a crucial app that lets you pay for cashless provisions and services whilst living in China. Once youve got the hang of that, its time to look at some of the fantastic opportunities that it opens up. One of these is the app known as Didi 滴滴, t...

Jan 17,2019

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Blog: Tips on Improving your Chinese skills!

Chinese is one of the worlds most iconic languages. In it is embedded a culture, a beauty and a existential history. Its symbolism and calligraphy has made it not just a matter of everyday speech, but an iconography in its own right and a representation of Asian culture. As a result, learning Chines...

Jan 10,2019

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Studying in Shandong: A visit to Qufu, the Home Town of Confucius

Earlier we wrote about the life of Confuciusand his legacy in Shandong province, tied with the opportunity we are offering to study in Jinan University. If youre planning to stay in Jinan, about an hour south of the city by High Speed Rail sits a small city, largely obscure to the outside world. Its...

Jan 10,2019

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Blog: What is Alipay? And why do you need it?

Most people with a vague awareness of China have largely heard of the famous online retailer Alibaba and of course, its founding entrepreneur Jack Ma. Part of the Alibaba groups growing number of services is now a application known as Alipay, which as the name suggests, allows you to make payments i...

Jan 10,2019

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