SPRING 2017: Letter from the Editors

Dear Readers, Thank you for opening the ninth edition of China Hands Magazine. We have learned a great deal putting this issue together. We hope you gain as much from reading it as our team of editors, writers, and artists did from creating it. This spring, we took a closer look at some well-worn narratives of contemporary China. Jake Lengacher offers a comprehensive history of … Continue reading SPRING 2017: Letter from the Editors

See You in the U.S. After the Age of CUUS

   Chinese Undergraduates in the United States (CUUS) is the Chinese equivalent of College Confidential. Started as a modest chat room in 2001, when computers were just entering urban households and studying in the U.S. was barely conceivable, CUUS became the go-to forum for the rare species of mainland student gunning for admission to top-tier U.S. colleges. As those fledgling applicants barely had any external … Continue reading See You in the U.S. After the Age of CUUS