"The prize money is too little to afford even half of a living room in Beijing."
Tu Youyou, the winner of Nobel Prize in medicine in this year, told the journalist jokingly when asked how to spend the prize money.
Taking a close look at the people in the streets is an exciting show, the best way to grasp the soul of a city.
Before returning home to the US this summer, people warned me I might experience "reverse culture shock". After living in China for a year there were things about home that surprised me.
When he first came to China, things were a lot more lax - both in this country and in the world. Obtaining official documents was nowhere near as rigorous as it is today.
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