Thomas Talhelm is a PhD candidate at the University of Virginia and co-founder of Smart Air, a company that specializes in DIY air filters. He talked with us about his commitment to clean air and the difference […]

Tom Carter is a Shanghai-based photographer and editor. He’s been in China since 2004 and has published two books. He was kind enough to sit down and talk to about his latest project, a collection of stories […]

From the way Chinese citizens reacted to the untimely death of Steve Jobs, you’d think he was a Chinese citizen. Perhaps it’s to be expected from a country that is crazy about Apple. In some ways, Apple is a […]

The salmon sashimi platter at Golden Jaguar is never full. Every time the employee behind the counter slides some on, customers swarm around and snatch them all up. Since they don’t know when they might get […]

Before this year, I didn’t get philanthropy. I knew it was important, and gave a moderate amount when disasters like the Sichuan earthquake struck, but still, it rarely felt better to give than to receive. […]

A story out of southeastern Maine proves that charity is so easy a 12-year-old can do it, literally. Molly McCormick, a seventh-grader from Turner, Maine, has raised $8,500 in the last two years for various […]

It’s a brand new year so you know what that means… last year’s statistics are out! There are two in particular that I’d like to focus on here.

Total Chinese Internet Users Passes Half a Billion

According […]

Last Thursday, just in time for Chinese new year, President Obama unveiled new directives that would make it easier for tourists from countries like China and Brazil to visit the United States.

In a <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/01/19/remarks-president-unveiling-strategy-help-boost-travel-and-tourism&quot; […]

At “Pioneer Journeys,” Project Pengyou’s Beijing launch, we set up some fun “Quests” for our guests to complete. One of our featured Quests was the China Reality Project.

In this activity, people were asked […]

Lei Chen Wong is the executive director of the Jane Goodall Institute China and a graduate of the Hopkins-Nanjing Center. We sat down with her to talk about her China journey and what JGI-China is doing to […]

Erika Helms is the former executive director of the Jane Goodall Institute China, which she helped found, and currently serves on its board of directors. She was kind enough to sit down with us and share some […]

Michael Crain is the director of Bingham McCutchen‘s Beijing office and the founder of Chi Fan for Charity. He moved to Beijing five years ago as Chief of Staff at the U.S. Embassy. We sat down with him and […]