One Third Coke, Two Thirds Sprite Spring, 2011
For the last six years before I came to China, all of my students at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago were zhonguo zhengfu guanyuan, Chinese government officials. Many have become friends, and I stay in touch with them as much as I can. This is about a wedding I attended recently. Michael, one of my government students, picked me up at school.
Cultural Hegemony, from 1959 Summer, 2016
Not sure where this fits … I have always thought that the comments on the “Chinglish” street signs and hotel menus were tending to the mean-spirited, even if some were funny. No one laughs at my speaking Chinese.
We were at afternoon tea yesterday with one of my students from Chicago and her husband and daughter. They both work for the Hangzhou police department, in jobs that have to do with contact with foreign governments and screening government officials who want to go abroad.
