Anecdotes about Shanghai street names

After Shanghai opened its port in 1843, It has become a city of immigrants. Before the liberation of Shanghai in 1949, many avenues are named after foreign celebrities and places, such as “Lincoln Avenue”, “Avenue Joffre”, “Avenue Petain”, “Gordon Road” and so on. Theses names remind us our colonial pasts. Therefore, they were cancelled after the liberat…

Is the spelling of “陕西南路South Shaanxi South Road” wrong?

  If you are learning Chinese, when you pass through South Shaanxi Road, you will be surprised to find its pinyin spelling is like this:     There are two “a” instead of “Shanxi”. What is it? Is this correct?   What’s going on here?   It turns out that this is because the street sign is not convenient for marking four tones of Chinese pro…

It turned out to be such Chinese Language

In ancient times, the Central Plain people (the area on the lower reaches of the Yellow River which formed the cradle of Chinese civilization) had frequent exchanges with other ethnic groups around them. In fact, what is called the Han Chinese are the fusion of the the Yue, Yi, Qiang people who entered “China” in ancient times. Therefore, what…

Finally our client service by Whatsapp is available now!

For too many years, parents who are interested in our Chinese summer cammp program can only contact us by old methodes: (phone or email). These two traditional methods of communication are relatively indirect and inconvenient. Actually, either at the inquiry phase before students come to the Chinese summer camp, or during the Chinese summer camp period t…

Everything about Medical Care for Your Child During Chinese Summer Camp

Many of the children who come to our Chinese summer camp need to stay in China alone for two to three weeks after they leave their families for the first time. Parents will be more worried about what to do if the child is ill during this period. Some children have some food taboos and are allergic to certain things, which is also a concern of parents. First of all, if…
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