February 9, 2016
Is Online Dating Right For You?
“I will never tell my parents that my boyfriend and I met via a dating…
December 6, 2015
How did Albert Cheng discover the Disney magic?
Albert Cheng grew up as the son of a science professor, always acing his math and science…
November 1, 2015
Why does Lauren admire Ida Liu of Citi?
Lauren Dai, a Harvard graduate, first profiled as "Dreamer" on China Personified, aspires to be…
August 26, 2015
La Vie en Rose
I was reading "The Moon and Sixpence" in the Commonwealth Avenue Park when a guy…
August 21, 2015
The Tiger Daughter, Intact
Since the release of Amy Chua’s parenting memoir “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother” in…
August 17, 2015
What’s Wrong with Tattoo?
Imagine this. You are biting a juicy dumpling over dim sum lunch with family one…
August 12, 2015
All the Questions I Ask Myself
Two weeks after my touchdown in JFK, the postgrad life of being a twenty-something in…
August 7, 2015
Video Series “The Great LOL of China”: Stereotype Bingo
“But wait? Are these things true?” “Ha! If people asked themselves that question, we wouldn’t…
August 5, 2015
When Will We Meet Again?
Last Sunday, I had lunch with a friend from high school, whom I had spent…
July 31, 2015
Begin Again
The popular music movie Begin Again, starring Keira Knightley and Mark Ruffalo, recently hit the…
July 26, 2015
A Perfect Vacation
Rome! Two weeks ago, our first stop in this five-day fantasy-fueled real-life attempt to reenact…
July 25, 2015
When Harvard Becomes “Ha Fu”
In this opinion piece for Harvard Magazine, author Zara Zhang explains how Harvard came into…