Written by yifan.j on November 5, 2026
One Exam After Another
InterviewIn China, candidates sometimes call their first attempt at the graduate entrance exam their ‘first battle’. A retake is their ‘second battle’. For Carl, it was one battle after another. The physics graduate from Hunan, a province in southern China, left a management programme in Shanghai after about two months to try again for a
Written by yifan.j on October 21, 2026
Hi Munich!
AuthorsHi! I’m Yifan Jiang. I’m 24 and from China. I grew up in Guizhou, a mountainous province in southwestern China, and have lived in Beijing since starting university. I studied philosophy as an undergraduate and am now pursuing a master’s degree in documentary filmmaking. I’m also an intern journalist and have written several in-depth stories.