Bombed the last dictation of the semester

In third-year Chinese, we have to take a 听写 every Wednesday. The name is misleading because, unlike at Princeton in Beijing, where teachers would read out a few sentences and we’d have to write them down in characters, all we have to do here is look at sentences of pinyin and write out the correct [...]

Wang Keqin at Princeton. Part 2

Here’s my journalism professor’s explanation of what happened at Wang Keqin’s lecture:
The argument between Wang Keqin, Wang Gang (the 28-year-old reporter from China News Week) and Professor Zhu, a retired Princeton physics professor, was perhaps the best part of the lecture.
Basically Professor Zhu said something along the lines like these: I’m not going to ask [...]