Early every morning, Xiao Xiaoxue rides to his workshop at the foot of the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge. He puts on a conspicuous yellow jacket and at 8:30 am leads his team on a routine maintenance examination of the bridge.
All I could see was fear. Technically, the sight of the lake's surface rushing up at me from 100m below was surging through my pupils, whizzing along my optical nerves and registering in my brain as visual information. But it seemed like a remote unreality as I plummeted dozens of meters per second towards what seemed to be certain death. The instant I jumped, primordial terror overwhelmed and short-circuited all ken.
The year of the pig is coming to an end and many couples have had their babies, as planned. In China, people believe a baby born this year will be lucky, prosperous and fertile.
Trusting with caution is very important, says Christine Mar, executive director of the Hong Kong-based Children's Medical Foundation (CMF), as she looks back on her decade of charity work on the Chinese mainland.
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?"
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