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Author Archives: Ralph Jennings
Can of Cold Blue Crush with extra ice
An introverted personality can be a Chinese undergrad’s worst classmate. It follows only-child students to college from homes where parents discourage conversation and from middle schools where teachers forbid the same. In college they suddenly want dates but don’t know where to start. Some guys dump ice on the hots for a girl:
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Fear of being an informed fool
Chinese college students who show for lectures, sit in the front rows and finish their homework naturally know the answers to questions raised in class. But they are so afraid of the humiliation that would follow from a wrong answer, or from unpolished delivery of the right one, that they freeze up when given chances to shine.
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Dorm storm: Share and beware
Ralph Jennings posts a letter he received when he was working as an agony uncle for a Chinese newspaper: “Last term, a student was killed by one of his roommates because of disputes when playing cards.”
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“I don’t want to be compared! We are different!”
Letters to an agony uncle: A mother can be trouble enough. She insists on study over play. She’s always hounding the kid to pass some test. She censors dates and mates. But add to that a failure, minor as it may be, that sparks Mom’s sense of do-die-or-be-killed competition.
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Death, seldom spoken, visits in writing
“I wonder if I committed suicide whether I would be able to see my great father once more.”
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A head above the pack is still behind?
What’s more, sometimes a boy who is shorter than me may suddenly murmur behind my back, “it’s too unfair.”
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Tagged eclipse, Letters to a foreign agony uncle, social issues, society, university
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“I want a face-to-face dispute, but I know it’s useless”
“But he only said it was rubbish and didn’t even look at it carefully. I retorted that it’s not rubbish.”
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Top gunner: Drop the weapon?
Letters from Chinese students to a foreign agony uncle in a a state-owned English newspaper （Part VI).
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Leaking family secrets
Letters from Chinese students to a foreign agony uncle in a a state-owned English newspaper (Part V)
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Tagged Family, Letters to a foreign agony uncle, marriage, school
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Just an ice water, please
Letters from Chinese students to a foreign agony uncle in a a state-owned English newspaper (Part IV).
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Tagged Letters to a foreign agony uncle, migrants, school, the countryside, wealth gap
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