I had spent more than 30,000 yuan ($3,940) on Chinese classes, 300 hours of one-on-one lessons and four months of toiling on the tones but I still couldn't order a pizza over the phone.
About 400 high school students from Western Pennsylvania and neighboring Ohio joined a heated discussion last week over "China: What Does the Future Hold?"
A US visa officer thumbed through a passport and asked the 22-year-old man in front of her: "Why are you going to the United States?"
Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) fashion was ultra cool. Deep-indigo silk robes, cobalt blue collars, horseshoe-shaped red hats with gemstones on top, rubies, pearls, jade, beads, and colorful bird insignias weaved into the coats.
While her friends paint or play mahjong, Zhou Qiangling, known as Madam Rose, enjoys on-line trysts and writing about them.
"Are you growing a mustache?" asked a Chinese friend. "Well, yes I am," I replied.
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