Lesson 15
This practice, consisting of acupuncture, herbal medicine, massage, and other therapies is still widely practiced in China today.
What is Traditional Chinese medicine (中医)?
This practice was commonly used in pre-modern China to help people find a partner.
What is arranged marriage?
People in China commonly have this animal as a pet.
What is a bird/tropical fish/dog?
Unlike in America, Chinese patients typically pick up their prescriptions here.
What is a hospital?
This popular commercial holiday in China is celebrated on 11/11 as the opposite of Valentine’s Day.
What is Single’s Day?
This is the most important part of the college application process in China.
What is an entrance exam?
These treatments are seldom used in American hospitals but are common in Chinese clinics even for common ailments.
What are injections and intravenous infusions?
According to Chinese legend, the Cowherd and the Weaving Girl are allowed to meet each other only on the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, which is now celebrated as this holiday in China.
What is Valentine’s Day?
College students in China were not allowed to do this until the 1990s.
What is live off-campus?
To see a doctor, Chinese outpatients have to pay around $1 in these.
What are registration fees (挂号费)?
Chinese parents may go to these to advertise their children and find them a spouse.
What are marriage markets?
Before the 1990s, up to this many students lived in a single dorm room.
What is 6-7?
This service was offered to all Chinese state employees until it was discontinued in the 1990s due to financial burden.
What is free medical care?
This traditional Chinese art form is losing ground to other forms of entertainment like movies, TV, and karaoke.
What is Peking Opera (京剧)?
In China, you can find an apartment by looking online, in newspapers, or going to these.
What are intermediary companies (中介公司)?