Life in Chinese | Weekly Stories in Slow Mandarin

What does it feel like to wake up to a war? In this episode I have special guest -- a Chinese citizen at Kyiv the night when Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022. Our conversation (in Mandarin) provides a rare peak into the real experience of a foreign individual amid the war in Ukraine. 被战争叫醒是一种怎样的体验？本集博客我们请到了一位特殊的嘉

Although some sectors such as hospitality have seen significant job losses, there has been a forceful rebound in the job market as the pandemic normalizes and more and more positions are open for remote work. On the one hand, certain aspects such as training have proven to be problematic to do remotely. On the other hand, remote work has presented unprecedented opportunities for us

Visit life in Chinese.com for Pinyin-annotated transcript and English translation! My birthday is February 10 and it is today here in California. For me this is a time of self reflection and so I looked back at my birthdays from 2018 to 2021 and thought about what I was doing then and what kind of mental state I was in at the time. I remember all the frustration but also the satisf

My experience with women entrepreneurship in China is one of the reasons I work with small business owners and women entrepreneurs in California today. To me, Shanghai seems like such a confident and modern city because of the confident and modern women living there.

This land is your land and this land is my land, From California to the New York islands, From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters, This land was made for you and me.

For many born in the 90s in Beijing, getting a good college education is almost the single most important goal in life. But how did this generation of Chinese kids born to an “elite life” come to terms with the rest of the Chinese society where hundreds of millions of people work in agriculture and physical labor? Full transcription in Chinese and translation in English availab

In the episode I’m sharing my experience living through 2020 in the US during the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic is just a background to everything we lived through in the unprecedented year of 2020 and you will listen to me talking about the Presidential Election and the Black Lives Matters movement among others in Mandarin. The transcript of this episode and the English transl

What is it like to be married to a second-generation immigrant in America with Russian parents as a first-generation Chinese immigrant yourself? How to talk about the book Master and Margarita and Russian culture in general in Chinese? A Chinese girl sharing her experience of culture mixing. The transcript of this episode and the English translation of the story is available at Lif