Yangyang Cheng

Jan 22, 2025 | dissentmagazine.org | Joanna Wuest |Briana S. Last |Victoria Baena |Yangyang Cheng

Jacqueline Rose’s Wild Analysis Our ugliest psychological impulses can be a starting point for social criticism. Two Homes at War For those whose hyphenated identities straddle a divided world, life is a series of compromises. Therapy With a Human Face The feminization of therapy is crucial to understanding how it became both devalued and out of reach. Please consider donating to Dissent.

Nov 18, 2024 | chinafile.com | Yangyang Cheng

“Are you going to stay in the United States or go back to China after graduation?”When my classmates, my professors, and my colleagues in the newsroom during my summer internship learned that I was originally from China, they always asked me this same question. I told them I didn’t know.

Oct 16, 2024 | chinafile.com | Yangyang Cheng

Like many children in 1990s China, every day when the bell rang for recess, my friends and I would rush out of the classroom and onto the playground. Our favorite activity was tiao pijin, a form of jump rope using elastic. It was a team sport. Two of us secured the elastic on either end so it formed a long loop, and the rest hopped in and out of it. To keep up the pace and count our steps, we recited a song: “The malan blooms.

Sep 5, 2024 | boisestatepublicradio.org | Yangyang Cheng

Yangyang Cheng is a particle physicist and a research scholar in law and fellow at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center, where her work focuses on the development of science and technology in China and U.S.-China relations. In 1974, Tsung-Dao (T.D.) Lee visited a dance academy in Shanghai and came up with an idea: shao nian ban, the Special Class for the Gifted Young. Thirty years later, I studied physics in China at the program Lee had conceived.

Aug 22, 2024 | chinabooksreview.com | Taili Ni |Yangyang Cheng

In ancient Chinese mythology, there was once a war between a king and a water spirit. The king won. In its fury, the defeated water spirit smashed one of the eight pillars at the edge of the land that connected heaven and earth. The celestial pole tilted. The sky inclined toward the northwest, and the earth sank to the southeast, which is why rivers in China flow in that direction.