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2025: People’s Daily Commentary Beware Slanders Against Returned Student Talent

Posted on 07/06/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Chinese students get it from both sides. Sometimes suspected of being Chinese spies abroad, they can also be suspected of being American spies or being failures who had no choice but to retreat back to China. The steady decline in … Continue reading →

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Studying Abroad and Returned Students: It’s Complicated

Posted on 06/15/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Love-hate relationships sometimes.  In 1973 when I was studying in France, a Jordanian student told me  “People from my country who study in the Soviet Union become pro-American, while those who study in the USA become pro-Soviet!” Perhaps not true … Continue reading →

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2025: “PRC Returned Overseas Students are American Spies, I Wouldn’t Hire Any” Controversy

Posted on 06/08/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

There is an equal and opposite Chinese counterpart to the views some of the MAGA people in the USA who suspect there are lots and lots of Chinese spies among Chinese studying in the USA.  There are also Chinese people … Continue reading →

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Rightist Memoir XXXIII: I Get a Job Teaching Math

Posted on 06/26/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Find other chapters listed at Kong Lingping’s Rightist Memoir I: “Blood Chronicle” By Long-time Prisoner of Mao Zedong The full Chinese text can be downloaded from bannedbook.org  Book Three Chapter III   I Teach for a While According to Chinese folk customs, the … Continue reading →

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2024：VOA on PRC Students in US Seeking Work Permission

Posted on 04/25/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

It’s H1B Lottery Season Again: Low Winning Rate, Fewer Job Opportunities Chinese Students Lament It’s Getting Harder to Stay in the U.S. 又是H1B抽签季：中签率低、工作机会少 中国学生感叹留美愈发不易 March 26, 2024 AUSTIN – “It’s better to go through the line, don’t have to spend … Continue reading →

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2023: Beijing Middle Schoolers Protest Stuffed Duck Education

Posted on 12/03/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Some Beijing middle school students at middle school affiliated with Renmin University (人大附中朝阳分校) wrote a letter of complaint about their dawn-to-dusk high pressure schooling. The PRC Ministry of Education has ordered reductions in classwork and in homework [double reduction policy … Continue reading →

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2023: PRC College Grads Seek Jobs in Africa

Posted on 07/21/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

With unemployment among recent college graduates rising in China, some of the more adventurous graduates are looking for jobs with Chinese companies or merchants in Africa. The Chinese Communist Youth League‘s newspaper China Youth Daily reports. Looking at unconventional job … Continue reading →

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2023 Sweden and Germany — Concerns About ‘Side Agreements’ Forced on Chinese Graduate Students

Posted on 04/05/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

SWEDEN Dagens Nyheter in Swedish Kinesiska studenterna används att spara pengar: ”Diktaturens blodspengar” Chinese students used to save money: “The dictatorship’s blood money” UPDATED 20:36 PUBLISHED 20:25 The Chinese students have signed hidden agreements and are identified as security risks at … Continue reading →

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PRC June 4, 1989 Meritorious Service Awards: the Guardians of the Republic

Posted on 03/25/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Chinese language Wikipedia articles often has articles and more detailed articles about China than Wikipedia in other languages. Here is a translation of the Wikipedia article on meritorious service award presented to military personnel who participated in the repression around … Continue reading →

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2023 Hong Kong Survey: Many Want to Leave

Posted on 03/20/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Half of Hong Kongers Want to Leave Even Those with Poor English 半數港人想走 英語差都外流 Oriental Daily Hong Kong Chinese The pressure is unbearable, I don’t want to say here long The Hong Kong government’s poor governance, the implementation of nearly … Continue reading →

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