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GIESELMANN: Religion in China

By Daily Free Press Admin April 30, 2014

The hour-long commute from classes to my internship in downtown Shanghai is punctuated by a stroll past the Jing’An Temple. This temple — which literally translates as “The Temple of Peace and Harmony”—...

GIESELMANN: Homesickness

By Daily Free Press Admin April 22, 2014

Regardless of where I wake up, the first thing I do when I hop out of bed in the morning is look out of my window. The first view of the world outside gives me an idea of the day’s mood. Beyond merely...

GIESELMANN: Tiananmen Square

By Daily Free Press Admin April 15, 2014

Beijing is an old city. Compared with the omnipresent bright, neon lights that adorn the mass of skyscrapers in Shanghai, Beijing did not immediately strike me as a thriving metropolis, home to 21 million...

GIESELMANN: Youth culture in China

By Daily Free Press Admin March 26, 2014

Once again, I step onto a crowded subway train. The subway door beeps twice as a man hurries on during the last second. The doors close as the man squeezes in, creating a chain reaction that jostles everyone...

Gieselmann: Taking the subway in Shanghai

By Daily Free Press Admin March 18, 2014

I stir in my bed, slowly becoming aware of the world around me. Sunlight leaks in through a slit of cloth, the window to my right barely showing the break of day. I turn over in bed and check the time...

GIESELMANN: Growing into China

By Daily Free Press Admin March 4, 2014

Our bus pulled up to the stop. It was a cold and foggy — a typical winter day in Shanghai. Though rain was not falling, the evidence of a recent storm appeared in puddles haphazardly marking the navy...

GIESELMANN: Misconceptions

By Daily Free Press Admin February 25, 2014

Before coming to China, I had almost no idea what to expect of the Chinese society. Though traces of Chinese culture exist in America, they are often fragmented into an abstraction that doesn’t fully...

GIESELMANN: Acclimation

By Daily Free Press Admin February 19, 2014

In an interesting turn of events, our weekend trip to Beijing planned by Boston University’s Shanghai office was canceled at the last minute due to hazardous air quality in the nation’s capital. In...

GIESELMANN: Arrival

By Daily Free Press Admin February 12, 2014

After months of speculation, nervousness, restless days and sleepless nights, I finally found myself on my flight to Shanghai. Although 14 hours of uninterrupted airtime is a lot for anyone to handle,...

GIESELMANN: Process

By Daily Free Press Admin February 5, 2014

In my 19 years of life I’ve realized that there isn’t much that’s more painful than waiting in line. I try to avoid situations involving lines as much as possible, but I somehow always end up back...

GIESELMANN: Winter break

By Daily Free Press Admin January 29, 2014

When I was in high school, winter break was a time of excitement and freedom. After months of full-time schooling, organized extracurricular activities and obligations, winter break was a time to finally...

Gieselmann: Incentives

By Daily Free Press Admin January 22, 2014

I love Mandarin Chinese. Even after nearly seven years of studying it, the language continues to confuse and amaze me. The origins of Mandarin Chinese date back nearly 3,000 years, and today is by far...

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