at home in…, w| Gerald Zhang-Schmidt

Of course, I couldn’t stay away from the “Chinese Mothers” debate – which I think makes a very different point, ultimately… Maternal battles pander to cultural stereotypes, as the Global Times (where you can also read it) headlined it. Or go on reading here:

Teaching at university is at both a rewarding and a challenging experience… which is where that commentary grew out of. The editor went over it quite heavily, I must say (I did not speak of morons – but the article does have more flow now). Beauties of learning matter more than certificates We begin learning [...]

Fewer daughters will raise women’s value http://opinion.globaltimes.cn/foreign-view/2010-01/501145.html The Chinese countryside is scattered with posters urging people to remember that “Girls are just as good as boys,” but the surplus of men keeps rising. According to a study released in April 2009 by the British Medical Journal, currently, 117 boys are born in China for every [...]

Global Times, Nov. 1, 2009 Update: Later, this article even made it into the Chinese edition (translated, of course – and not by me)… kinda funky. Chinese and foreign commentators, often at odds with each other, are of one mind when it comes to China’s younger generation.

“Cultures are often more alike than they seem, ” Global Times, Sep. 24, 2009 Recently, the opinion pages of the Global Times have seen a lot of debate over such thorny issues as the relationships between older Western men and young Chinese women, and the tricky subject of living together before marriage. Relationships, especially families, [...]