When you give someone a hug, you usually get one in return. This is exactly what hundreds of Chinese teachers and volunteers have experienced after working for Confucius Institutes overseas.
Editor's note: Confucius Institutes were first established nine years ago as centres where foreigners can learn the Chinese language. However, China's economic boom has increased worldwide interest in all things Chinese, and Confucius Institutes have responded by broadening their curricula. Now, you can find Confucius Institutes that specialize in Chinese opera, in dance and performance, music, business and even Chinese tourism.
Chen Hailei joined the navy to see the world, but so far the 25-year-old has only seen piles of garbage and a trash incinerator. His job on the Chinese hospital ship Peace Ark is to take care of garbage disposal.
The lives of the 12 female sailors on Peace Ark are similar to those of college students, except they have a large ship to maintain.
Once the Peace Ark had passed the Strait of Malacca and sailed into the Indian Ocean, the ship began to pitch and roll. Hard.
Jessie Zhang is a receptionist at a multinational company in Beijing. Every day she takes delivery of around 100 packages, mainly the results of online shopping by colleagues.
A person's disposition toward happiness or misery is genetic, scientists have proved during the past two decades.
Wearing light blue clothes with small black flowers, her white and gray hair wrapped up in a bun, Zhu Ezai sits on a bamboo chair and stares at a small pile of Dahongpao tea on the table in front of her.
Nowadays, Xiamei village is just a dot on the map of China, but if you open a history of Chinese tea, you'll discover that the village once played a crucial role in the globalization of the beverage.
As we ate noodles at a snack bar in Xiamei village one late-July morning, we could hear the voices of children reading aloud coming from a nearby room.
'A man in his 90s sobbed at the door of an old adobe house. He grumbled that he had so much farm work to do every day, but his mother still assigned him new tasks, such as helping his grandmother chop firewood and cook supper. When asked where his mother was, the old man pointed to the mountains and said: 'She's cutting pigweed somewhere in the valley'."
The surface of the Gulf of Aden was flat except for the water stirred up by the Chinese hospital ship Peace Ark.
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