Horn honking in China
November 15, 2014
By Nathan Cheuk, UNNC summer school student There has been little doubt that recent years in China have been associated with an astounding rate of economic growth. Naturally, there has been, and will continue to be, an increase in the number of motorists on the roads as China continues to grow. Perhaps one of the …
China’s emerging hipsters
September 25, 2014
By Aimee Strang, UNNC summer school student “Wenyi qingnian” – aka the Chinese expression used to describe a hipster. The term hipster has become increasingly popular over the past decade to describe those who belong to a certain subculture and are predominantly from Generation Y. The idea of hipster has primarily been associated with Western …
My homestay in Tianjin, China
April 20, 2014
By Jóhanna Magnusardóttir from the Faroe Islands, studying BA International Studies and Chinese. Moving abroad to study is always a big step. Moving to China to take your whole degree is a full-on man-on-the-moon giant leap – or so I thought before actually putting on my figurative space suit and starting my three-year- educational journey. …
Korea->USA->CHINA: How my life started in China
July 17, 2012
My name’s MinYoung You. I am a third year student at The University of Nottingham Ningbo China, majoring in International Business with Chinese. As you can see from the picture, I am Asian. To be exact, I am from South Korea. I grew up in Seoul and when I was 16 I travelled to America …
Serendipity and a cup of tea…
July 13, 2012
Hello people! A few days ago I was wondering what might possibly surprise us, people from the 21st century? We have already seen everything possible, and even beyond that. Well,at the weekend I decided to find out something special, in order to try something different from the usual Lao WaiTan haunts. My first stop was …
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