Landing in Beijing
Student Lucia Neagu, Lu Jie When we landed at Beijing airport, I expected everything to be different, another [...]
My New Chinese Friends
My new Chinese friends (1957) We were housed at Beijing University (Beida), a strikingly beautiful western style campus [...]
Beijing Summer Palace
Beijing Summer Palace, 1955 One day we were invited to visit The Summer Palace, an architectural treasure of [...]
Learning Chinese
Bronze traditional ornaments, 1957 We started learning Chinese through Russian, familiar to all foreign students who came from [...]
Linguistic Confusions
Listening to the way we spoke Chinese, demanded a lot of focus from our Chinese friends, guessing to understand what [...]
Drinking Water
Chinese tea pot I was surprised to find that the only water available to drink was boiled water, [...]
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