Published accounts from students who studied in China, and compiled field notes on what daily life is actually like.
4 articles · city life
Subway lines that run past midnight, a phone that replaces your wallet, and a campus where everything from the canteen to the laundry room is one QR code away — what daily life in Beijing actually feels like.
The most international city in mainland China: a 30-minute coffee-to-class commute, same-day delivery for almost anything, and a skyline that makes the walk home part of the curriculum.
Morning tea, the largest African and Southeast Asian student communities in China, trade-fair internships and a cost of living that leaves room to actually travel — what life in Guangzhou offers.
Forty years ago it was a fishing town; today it builds the world’s drones, phones and EVs. For engineering and business students, Shenzhen is the rare Chinese city where the industry is the campus.