The China Summer Study Abroad Program is going through many changes which will give the program a more technological future-driven direction. These new changes encompass a movement to shorten the program from five weeks to 16 days and focus on China’s urbanization, U.S.-China relations, and the new technological innovations implementedRead More

We’ve all heard of the “Choate bubble”, a term loosely meaning the sense of comfort we all share at Choate; but we usually just brush the idea off our shoulders and ignore the thought. While there is nothing wrong with enjoying this nicely-constructed, utopic bubble, being in China for theRead More

As my term abroad comes to a close, I feel as though I’ve seen a large majority of the trends in Beijing. Many of them do resemble the ones we have in the West, yet it’s the little and amazingly original ones that caught my eye. The permanently full subwayRead More

Picture the crowded metropolis of Beijing. Skyscrapers shoot into the sky, the Great Wall winds through the city, and the imposing Tiananmen Gate welcomes all to China’s capital. It’s a big change from the red-brick buildings of Choate, yet Beijing is also a part of Choate’s campus. Four students —Read More