People Mountain, People Sea

By Dr David O’Brien, Assistant Professor, School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, The University of Nottingham Ningbo China. In the past seven days somewhere in the region of 480 million trips were made in China as the nation basked in the ‘golden week’ National Holiday. Since 1999 the majority of Chinese workers are given three days …

My China Experience

By Shivali Mistry, Second year MSci Hons Student in Accounting and Finance for Contemporary China, The University of Nottingham Ningbo China. As I embarked upon my journey to Asia last August, I felt highly unprepared. The idea of a year away from home still felt so surreal. Naively, I had dealt with the entire situation …

Xi’an and the Terracotta Army

By Felicity Woolf, Studying an MA in Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China. We recently travelled to Xi’an, the old imperial capital, about 1000 kilometres northwest of Shanghai. It is the home of the Terracotta Army – or Bing Ma Yong (soldiers horse clay) in Chinese.  Our first impressions of the …

Ni hao Miao People!

By Klara Habartova, Second Year Student, BA Contemporary Chinese Studies, The University of Nottingham UK. 你们好 Miao people! As a little prize for successfully (hopefully) passing my exams, I decided to go for another short trip. There was a plac