This coping mechanism that’s masquerading as a digital scrapbook gives you a window into our experiences as a Canadian-American couplefamily trying to live into and love – and some days just survive – China. It shows us discovering and slowing learning to understand Chinese people, culture and society on personal level.
The mini-victories, potholes, questions, misperceptions, complaints, amateur documentaries, and people from our daily stumblings through the intercultural terrain all make regular appearances here, along with the occasional cultural analysis geekfest piece betraying the fact that we probably spent way too long in grad school.
We hope you’ll join us online; we’re having fun, and there’re lots and lots of photos!
About Us
We hope one day to live, work, and raise our family in China. In March 2007, after finishing up M.A.’s in Intercultural Studies while teaching English in Taiwan, we began full-time language study in Tianjin. After draining our bank account studying Chinese, we hope to get jobs somewhere on the Mainland and make some babies.
You can reach us on the blog or through e-mail:
jessica [at] chinahopelive.net
joel [at] chinahopelive.net
A question of our times
“…what else will distinguish us
from all the other peoples
on the face of the earth?”
(Coming soon eventually.)
