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What It Is like Taking the COVID-19 Vaccine in China

What It Is like Taking the COVID-19 Vaccine in China

Posted by | Jan 23, 2021 | , , , |

With 2020 tainted as the ‘Year of COVID,’ next year is shaping up to be the ‘Year of the Vaccine.’ Among the leading vaccines developed around the world, China has four currently in limited use domestically.  Over the summer, the Sinopharm and Beijing Institute vaccine was given emergency approval by the government to inject both of its vaccine candidates into government officials, health care workers and other select groups. New York Times reported that nearly a million people in China had received the Sinopharm vaccine by November.  In early December, we reached out to a Chinese national previously based in South...

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Beijing Changes Quarantine Policy… Again

Beijing Changes Quarantine Policy… Again

Posted by | Jan 23, 2021 | , , |

Beijing has further extended the ‘health monitoring’ period for overseas arrivals by an extra seven days.  The new policy is being referred to as ‘14+7+7’ – 14 days of quarantine in a designated location, seven days of further quarantine or health monitoring depending on certain conditions and a further seven days of more health monitoring.   The policy was announced on Friday, January 16 by the capital’s COVID-19 prevention and control leadership group, reports Xinhua.  The group also announced that the designated quarantine venues will be further “strengthened” and that “nucleic acid tests targeting related personnel and surroundings will be...

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What Is the HSK Exam and Why You Should Take It

What Is the HSK Exam and Why You Should Take It

Posted by | Jan 23, 2021 | |

If you have been studying Chinese for a while, you probably have heard about the HSK exam.  HSK stands for Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi (literally ‘Chinese Level Test’) and it is the most commonly used internationally-accepted Chinese proficiency test. The test has been gaining in popularity in recent years and, according to government estimates, over eight million people take the HSK every year.  The HSK has six different levels and each level is taken as a separate exam, with HSK 1 being the simplest and HSK 6 the most advanced. The exam tests reading, writing and listening skills, and can...

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Here’s How You Buy a House in Shanghai

Here’s How You Buy a House in Shanghai

Posted by | Jan 7, 2021 | , |

People in Shanghai love to talk about money and houses. Do you have a house? When did you buy yours? How much did you pay? Where is it? These conversations are mostly in Chinese because it’s still not super common for people without a Chinese ID card to buy property in Shanghai. (This includes residents of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.) Heck, it’s not even that common for people from outside of Shanghai to buy Shanghai properties in recent years, given the strict limitations on house ownership in our city. But it happens! Long-termers, people who...

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That Presidential Glow: Getting a Spray Tan in Shanghai

That Presidential Glow: Getting a Spray Tan in Shanghai

Posted by | Jan 6, 2021 | |

is a UV-bed/spray tanning salon that opened in late 2019. It's the only, ahem, registered tanning salon in Shanghai that offers spray tans. They say they use imported spray solutions from the US, made from a blend of organic, vegan ingredients. Getting sprayed costs 600rmb. That's not bad. Sure, lying on a sunbed will cost less per session but you have to do it a few times to see results and it's just, well, bad for the skin, right? How spray tanning works Spray tan solutions contain something called dihydroxyacetone (DHA) that interacts with...

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