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Research: How is China?

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Many friends and families have asked me the same repetitive question "How is China", it's hard to reach out to everyone so I will try my best to convey what I can in this post. Before heading out to China there was an expectation. A sense of false ideology that I had encountered that I wanted to see for myself. Sometimes I was an observer, while at other moments I was very much involved in local life, and this combination of distance and intimacy was part of what shaped my first semester in Taishan.What I saw in China was a great deal of progress in work, which could be put into turning the abstract into reality. At first, coming to China, one can be baffled by the sounds, noise and as something that I have discovered in my undergraduate studies- Chinese food. However, none of these noises bothered me. The early sounds woke me but that was fine because they were part of the routine of the university and hearing them made me feel as if I were also in step. Since...