Igor Smerdov

Artem Goncharuk

Since ordinary Chinese are busy with persistent struggle for survival in the «New China», so to discover the intellectual life at the grassroots level is a difficult task. The authors rely on their personnel experience which they have had during 10 years of working and studying in provincial universities of China in the 2000s.

Foreign teachers and students mostly discuss “inefficiency of Chinese way of life” and reminiscence about their homeland. With Chinese they speak about cuisine, sports and leasure/ political subjects aren’t recommended.