City girl moves to the Chinese countryside.
Oh, the things she will learn.

Posts tagged "Columbia Graduate School of Journalism"

Leaping errr.. Falling down the Tiger Leaping Gorge

On July 5, 2008 – one year and old day ago – I fell down a cliff in SW China, in Yunnan’s Tiger Leaping Gorge. I fell a good five meters down a sandy, rocky mountain side and was stopped by the roots of a giant plant. Below me, hundreds of meters straight down below...

On Speaking Chinese at Home, a Pulitzer, and more..

Earlier this month, when sister-brother team Tammy and Victor Jih won The Amazing Race, I was cheerleading for them, dancing in my room, in my pajamas, in my small NYC apartment. In the 14th season of the show, in which 11 teams compete in a race around the world, the Jihs – Chinese born Americans...

Graduation

  Sorry I’ve been MIA! I’ll be graduating this week from Columbia University with a Masters of Science degree at the Graduate School of Journalism. I’ll be out of the country for about a month after that, traveling in Europe. At the end of June, I start working as a reporter for the Associated Press here...

Blogging on China and the Chinese in America

Hello, world. I’m finally starting up a new blog. It’s been awhile. I was an avid blogger years ago during my first year of university. I wrote about some news but blogged mostly about my personal comings and goings. This time around, I’m going to be blogging about two of my interests that have developed...