Relatos publicados por estudiantes que estudiaron en China, y notas de campo sobre cómo es la vida diaria.
30 artículos
The supervisor determines your funding, your research, your equipment access and your graduation timeline. This is the most important decision in a Chinese postgraduate application.
It remains one of the most common first jobs for international graduates — and the legal requirements are stricter than most people think.
A 19-year-old Vietnamese student applied to two scholarship schemes, was rejected by one, and ended up at Fudan University with full funding and HSK 6.
A Swedish graduate student spent his final master's semester at SJTU's Antai College, working on stock market reactions to China's carbon-neutrality pledge.
After years of studying Chinese in Sweden, a scholarship finally made a semester in Shanghai possible — and the classes were harder than expected.
She accepted the offer in two days, cried over Chinese in her first year, and now studies vehicle engineering in Mandarin alongside Chinese classmates.
A US student at the University of International Business and Economics argues that the awkward spaces are where the important work happens.
Her first choice university could not recommend her for CSC funding. A second supervisor's support changed the outcome.
A visiting US student delegation in Wuhan saw humanoid robots pour tea, write calligraphy and play chess — and revised their expectations.
Compiled from published student accounts of the arrival period — what goes smoothly, what goes wrong, and the order to do things in.
Compiled from published accounts by learners at Chinese universities — the tactics that are consistently reported to work, and the ones that are not.
Compiled accounts of dormitory life — the good, the irritating and the cultural adjustments.