Berlin Fang is a US-based instructional designer, literary translator and columnist writing on cross-cultural issues.
China faces too many domestic challenges to pose a threat in the near term.
Filial piety needs to be replaced with mutual respect, understanding and love. Parents and children have duties toward each other. It's a two-way street.
On Oct 18, 2012, Time magazine published an article by Amanda Ripley on the impact of massive open online courses on higher education. It was one of many recent reports on this innovative method of teaching.
Recently I signed up with Wanfang, China's public "pay-to-read" portal for academic papers.
Many parents may consider sending children off to summer schools or programs. However, unless such instruction is designed to facilitate individual learning, it may have the opposite effect to the one intended.
July is an exciting yet challenging month for high school graduates who will apply to universities after they find out how well they have done in the annual College Entrance Examination.
US journalist Roseann Lake has investigated the phenomenon of "leftover" women in China. This refers to a woman who is supposedly "too old to marry".
Stress seems to be birthmark of this century, and sustained stress can easily develop into depression.
Ignorant of this context, labor organizations and international media are all too quick to rigidly apply the standards of developed countries when evaluating working conditions in a Chinese factory.
One of my colleagues once came back from his classroom asking: "Did you hear a loud explosion in the classroom?" Seeing the shock on my face, he chuckled: "It's the students' minds being blown away!"
Ally's story should inspire someone to think about this issue in China so that it can be discussed by people's deputies in various cities.
'If I were given only one word to capture Chinese society, guan would be it," wrote translator Eric Abrahamsen in an article in the New York Times.
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