#2 – Cai Laoshi

Any experience with first-year Chinese at the University of Chicago would be incomplete without Cai Laoshi (蔡老师). There is a facebook group about him called “The Cai Laoshi Fan Club / Support Group,” and I feel that pretty much sums up a lot of students’ relationships with the Cai. The group description reads, “Do you [...]

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Wedding Photographer Captures Sichuan Earthquake

I also came across this interesting photo in a New York Times blog. 

A confused bride and groom shake off some dust after the earthquake.
When the earthquake struck, five couples were having their wedding photographs taken at this deserted French Missionary Church in Pengzhou in southwestern Sichuan.  No one was injured.
The photographer, Wang Qiang, had already [...]

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