China Fellowship

During my third weekend at NYU Shanghai, my peers and I traveled to Beijing to learn more about China’s political center: Beijing. The city was hot and humid: a strange combination in Beijing’s near-desert climate. My classmates and I were quick to take water breaks and duck into the shade during our busy touring schedule. I’d … Continue reading Bryant Payne, China Fellowship, Shanghai, China

While I’ve devoted a large portion of my time here in Shanghai to practicing my Mandarin and doing homework for Intermediate Chinese II, the most interesting and fulfilling bits of knowledge I’ve gained on my trip have come from my other NYU Shanghai course: US-China Relations. My Gallatin Concentration, like any other student’s, is an ever-changing concept. … Continue reading Bryant Payne, China Fellowship, Shanghai, China

My concentration in Gallatin is entrepreneurship and cross cultural communication between China and the U.S. Born in Shanghai and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, my passions lie in building cultural bridges, promoting positive community and driving economic growth between China and the U.S. NYU Shanghai is the place to practice my passion into … Continue reading Qing Ma-Gallatin China Fellowship: China’s Transformation from Socialism to Capitalism: Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics

When people heard that I was going to study abroad in China, they joked: “Oh you are going to study at home.” I laughed with them. But I knew in my heart that my experience in China would be more than “living at home” because I have not been living in this country for more … Continue reading Qing Ma-Gallatin China Fellowship-2017: China, Its People, and Metro Stations: Order in Disorder

Angela Yu China Summer Fellow 2016 China

Angela Yu China Summer Fellow 2016 China The Chinese language class I’m taking is called Elementary Chinese for Advanced beginners, meaning that it’s a course for students with a Mandarin-speaking background who never formally learned to read or write in Chinese. Though I found the class to be a good fit for my level in … Continue reading 南腔北调: Accents

Eli Clemens Gallatin China Summer Fellow 2016 China As of today I have been in China for over a month.  Besides traveling to Xi’an for three days, I have stayed put in Shanghai. Because I will also be studying away here next semester, I have not felt much pressure to travel to other parts of China until I have a good … Continue reading One Month In China

Angie Shu China Summer Fellow 2016 Shanghai, China To succeed in China, a businessman must have guanxi (关系). To describe this concept insufficiently in English terms, guanxi is a network of influence formed by connections and relationships. In just the first two weeks of being in Shanghai, I was able to understand the importance of guanxi, … Continue reading 关系: Connections

Matthew Gibson China Summer Fellow 2016 Shanghai, China From an American perspective, conversations about race, ethnicity, and identity are increasingly common.  However, in China, these conversations happen at very small scales.  Almost the entire country shares the same ethnic heritage, and there is no adequate translation of “identity” be it personal or social.  But at NYU … Continue reading 全球化 Part 2

Matthew Gibson China Summer Fellow 2016 Shanghai, China I refer to my self-designed major in Gallatin as “Globalization”, the academic and philosophic study of a changing world culture.  I focus on questions of identity development as it relates to physical, political, and metaphorical boundaries as well as how they are changing in the face of an … Continue reading 全球化 Part 1