01/04/2016
A ‘Lost’ Daughter Speaks, and All of China Listens I went to China to find the birth mother who left me on a street corner. Instead, I became the focus of a nation’s buried…
IUP is the premier U.S.-sponsored Chinese language program intended for students who aspire to truly
01/04/2016
A ‘Lost’ Daughter Speaks, and All of China Listens I went to China to find the birth mother who left me on a street corner. Instead, I became the focus of a nation’s buried…
26/03/2016
还记得前门的全聚德烤鸭吗?
14/03/2016
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Laowai Style! Foreigner in Beijing's Gangnam Style Parody! 《老外Style》江南style模仿版 Youku Link: http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNDYwMTg3ODQ0.html The life of a foreigner in Beijing is very interesting! Take a look! "This guy" is Jesse Appell, ...
13/10/2015
Never try to read English signs in China....
Most IUPers started their first lesson at IUP with “吃在中国” Eat in China. Now let's listen to part of this lesson again and tell me: How do you like Beijing food? BTW in the previous post I uploaded a wrong pic of Zhang Laoshi. Check the right one uploaded by Li Laoshi in the post. Zhang Laoshi is now a visiting scholar at Dartmouth College! And Song Laoshi is teaching at the National Taipei University of Education.
25/09/2015
Do you remember the textbook "Across the Straits"? If the answer is yes, you must be familiar with the story of Zhang Laoshi and Song Laoshi. Zhang Laoshi is currently a professor of Chinese at Beijing Normal University. And Song Laoshi is teaching at Chung Yuan Christian University in Taiwan. Can you recall any of their stories?
The IUP Alumni Club of Beijing would like to invite IUPers to join our Bowling Happy Hour! Come out and enjoy Happy Hour drinks and hors d'oeuvres at the Capital Club while mixing and mingling with IUP alumni, students, faculty, and friends. There will also be bowling for the more athletically inclined!
Venue:
Capital Club Athletic Center
Address:The West Wing of Capital Mansion, 6 XinYuan Nan Lu, Chaoyang District Tel: 8486 2225
Date: Thursday October 15, 2015, 7:30 – 9:30 pm
Cost: 80 RMB, includes one game of bowling and happy hour specials.
24/09/2015
Check out a wonderful debate at IUP this Summer
As Xi Jinping is visiting the US, how to pronounce his last name "Xi"? If you’re familiar with IPA, you’ve got an easy route into this: /ɕǐ tɕînpʰǐŋ/. Let’s have a look at how Wikipedia helps readers pronounce this name:
SHEE chin-PING
Hmm, still sounds weird for Chinese people.... But if you can read pinyin, you will definite not be worried about this.
23/09/2015
A pic of IUP's classroom :D
22/09/2015
One day in China....
22/09/2015
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