Personal History

朝花夕拾

The Fight for Mental Health Support in China's Marginalized Communities

JINGCHEN YE

Zhoushi Town, Kunshan – In a small, cramped but tidy home, Tinglan Gao, a man in his late 70s, nervously clasped his hands together, his face twitching slightly as he welcomed visitors from the local community mental health program.

Mutual Healing in the Hills: Volunteer Teaching in Guizhou

ZITING JIANG & TIANYI MA

In this piece, Ziting Jiang and Tianyi Ma follow the efforts of DKU volunteer teachers in a rural, mountainous area of Guizhou, as both they and their students struggle to learn and come to understand one another.

Mono No Aware 物の哀れ: Japan’s Evanescence

DILNAZ DYUSSENGALIYEVA

... instead of dreaming my fourth dream of the night, I am in the midst of squeezing my college life into two suitcases as I am getting ready to go back home for the summer to Kazakhstan...

The One-Child Legacy: Tracing Identity Journeys of Chinese American Transnational Adoptees Returning to China

JAS SANTOS & YUQING WANG

On the tail end of the one-child policy, Knight and Veazey were among the last of the big adoptee waves.

Autobiographies of Language Learning

JAIYU SHI

Sissi (虞悦) is a sophomore studying Media and Arts at DKU. During her free time, she enjoys listening to music, traveling and visiting art galleries

Keeping Halal and Learning to Listen

JIALONG WANG

A Hui Muslim student responds to Adichie’s “The Danger of a Single Story”

Re-learning My Native Language

LI SHUHAN

My language-learning journey from English to Chinese and back again

亚洲人的脸

AUDREY ROBERTS

来到中国之后，作为美籍华裔的洪京博（Audrey Roberts）开始对自己的身份认同产生了疑问。她那看似亚洲人的面孔下实则有着 “typical American” （典型的美国人）的灵魂。而那些向她发问的人问得愈是紧迫，她愈想将此问题探究清楚。

我学习中文欣赏汉文化的旅程

ZACHARY SCHRAGE

“中文就是我人生的一部分。”来自美国的萧智瑞如是说道。那么，中文与他有着怎样一段缘分呢？在这里，他将分享他认知，学习，和使用汉语的故事。

Intersections: A Journal of Language, Culture, and Ideas is an online magazine featuring writing in Chinese and English by members of the Duke Kunshan community.

《交集：语言文化论刊》是一栏由昆杜人撰写的中英双语线上杂志。