Murmuring Tigers

Summary by author Maggie: It's common to view that people will somehow show their over-sympathy or under-sympathy towards people with disabilities. Sometimes,  people with disabilities will be ignored and disregarded by people around them as they are invisible. While, sometimes, people will pay too much attention to them like this disabled people is unnatural landscape or sculpture. What do d...

Summary by author Hazel: Mental health is like a balance beam that could be easily changed by external power and our  weight  as  well.  In  other  words,  the  surrounding  environment  and  how  we  think  of ourselves are decisive factors. One can not live in isolation. Therefore, his inner and outward relationships would sha...

Summary by author Kevin: This podcast mainly compares the cognition of psychiatric disability in Chinese and American culture. In order to discuss this topic, the host conducted a survey on a Chinese and an American respectively. In China, only those who have been ill for more than a year and have not been cured are medically called psychiatric disabilities. However, there is no such time limit in...

Summary by author Rico: In both China and the United States, the ideas about causes and symptoms of depression are similar. China and the United States have similar ways of diagnosis: self-evaluation, and doctor’s evaluation, and some measuring scales are the same. And they both treat depression based on three levels: mild, moderate, and severe, and three kinds of treatments: psychotherapy, medica...

Summary by author Lesley In western culture, men are the embodiment of reason, while women are the synonym of irrationality. In various texts, madness is both defect and essence of women. In a "male-dominated" society, all female diseases are understood as diseases of “resistance” and "perceived by men." Gilman's short story The Yellow Wallpaper  represents the hysterical cry of women at that...

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Summary by author Emma In recent years, more and more cases of depression have appeared, but it has always been a topic that is easily ignored and not understood. And in the traditional sense, the United States pays more attention to and treats psychological problems than China. Their treatment methods are also more advanced. This podcast discusses the general attitude towards depression in China...

Summary by author Meghan: By studying attitudes toward infertility between Chinese and American cultures, I realized that infertility is not a difficult topic to broach and infertility deserves the care of society. People with infertility should not be pressured by alternative visions because of their gender. Americans are more open to the problem of infertility than Chinese. Chinese women are far...

Summary by author Twincy: I  want  to  know  the  difference  between  the  treatment  of  depression  in  China  and  the United States. In modern society, depression is a disease that many young people will get.  Due  to  the  global  spread  of  the  epidemic,  people's  menta...

Sining Lyu's take on identity and culture shock, which many international (Chinese) students have experienced studying in the US.

What is a "Lolita" community and how can we try to understand them? Find out what Ke Ning says.

Tune in on Junyue Li's discussion of Chinese culture and the push and pull of Chinese students studying abroad.

Yujiao Bi informs us how double consciousness can be Asian American as well.

Wanhe Gu focuses her research on international students (especially Chinese) in the US.  

Come find out how the Chinese culture (food, language, etc.) has fared in the US--an interesting perspective provided by Shuyang Yan.

Yongfeng Zhang offers some useful tips on how to cross the language barrier while studying abroad.

Follow Ziyue Zhang on a journey of self- and community-exploration. 

Check out Larry Wang and Martin Wu's discussions about their experience in the Anhui Normal U-Brenau U 2+2 English Program.

Tune in to a brief overview of being an English educator by Aurora Hu.

Eve offers a thorough overview of the field of Chinese-English translation and interpretation. Do not miss this episode if you're interested in becoming a translator/interpreter in the future!

Teaching Chinese or English with a TESOL degree? Sherry Jiang offers new perspectives on the question.

Education service jobs or high ed? What are the challenges or opportunities that either field offers? Join Hazel Wang and Julia Wang for an all-rounded investigation of possible career paths for the English major.

Come check out the informative conversations between Tanya Fang, Zoey Gao, and Evelyn Chen. How should we better prepare for a future career as a middle school, high school, and college English teacher? Should we choose a metropolis over a rural town? What are some of the pros and cons of each option? If you want to teach English in China, it's not an episode that you would want to miss!

Elle Cheng takes us on a refreshing journal of the different graduate programs that an English major might apply. Would a graduate degree in Literature, TESOL, or Translation be more useful for the near future? Let's find out!

Lucy Kang helps us understand what it takes to be an English teacher in China. Want to find out what that industry looks like now and in the near future? Check out this episode!