Fili’s world

It’s interesting to meet some of the international students who just recently arrived in Tainan and hear some of the Chinese words they pick up on their first weeks here. Obviously, there’s Ni Hao. There’s the various necessities for getting food like rice, noodle and the basic words for meat. There are also the words they pick [...]

Mr. Su Yuping, of the Taiwan office in Tel-Aviv-Israel that have kindly granted me the Taiwan scholarship, supported by Ruby, opened a Mandarin blog called “The Israel Taiwan Friendship Organization” following the Taiwanese activities in Israel.
There’s a lot of interesting things inside, like photos and information about the Taiwanese activities in Israel and this wonderful video I found [...]

Haaretz, the best Israeli newspaper, has an excellent article on Taiwan. Dror Mishani, Haaretz’s reporter, has been invited to Taiwan to explore some the Taiwanese culture and look into some of the connections between Taiwan and Israel.
It’s a long fascinating article, but for the time being I’ll focus on one surprising section regarding the reporter’s [...]

Now in Israel - Chinese and Taiwanese fight over a Taiwan flag display in one small Israeli folk dance festival almost no one I know has heard of.
Here’s from Taipei Times’  "Dance turns nationalist at Israeli folkdance festival":
 

Chinese performers at an international folkdance festival in Israel touched off a diplomatic flap earlier this month by [...]

While the other Israeli blogs on China are disappearing, it’s nice to find new ones. Naama and Zohar left to southern China and have been writing about their lives in a new Hebrew blog translated "Just like home, but completely different".
Here’s a quick translation from their introduction:

When we went to study Humanities, we didn’t [...]

Discovering new Chinese blogs on Israel is always fun. Yangzi Lazar is a Chinese girl who married an Israeli guy and has followed him to live in Israel. Her Chinese blogging is a bit too difficult for me to follow, but the little reading I was able to do was very interesting.
Her latest blog [...]