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If, like me, you went to university once in the 1990s and again in the 2020s, you might be quite surprised by the changes in Chinese higher education. Because today's Chinese universities are becoming more and more like high schools: some so-called university students today…

The school had to register student status and create student files; in the section for important family members, information on parents and other close relatives had to be entered. When I filled in my mother's information, in the "details" column I wrote the words "deceased."…

Listening to lectures at school, it is basically impossible to fully understand and master everything. I am in a vocational (associate-degree) program rather than a bachelor's program, so overall the teaching quality is not high. With so many professional medical-theory courses to compress into two…

Hong Ziyun (1916-1986), given name Yuankai, was from Honggang Village, Xinmiao Township, Ezhou City, Hubei Province. During his lifetime he served as director of the Shanghan (Cold-Damage) teaching and research office at Hubei College of Traditional Chinese Medicine (now Hubei University of Chinese Medicine), as…

Professor Li Shimao (deceased) was a professor and doctoral supervisor at Hebei University of Chinese Medicine. With more than 50 years in medicine, he was rich in both teaching and clinical experience. Case records of some of the cirrhosis-with-ascites patients he treated are included in…

Two months into the semester, our study group submitted our first set of knowledge-point summaries, each written by its own member. To my surprise, while I had submitted a 10,000-character article, the most prolific male member of the group submitted one of over 15,000 characters.

This is the part of the deep-learning notes that I organized for everyone in my school study group and completed myself. The nineteen of us divided the work, each completing the chapter assigned to us. I guided them through the writing, ultimately aiming for a…

All beings take ten things as good, and also take ten things as evil. What are the ten? Three of body, four of speech, and three of thought. The three of body are killing, stealing, and lust; the four of speech are double-tongue, harsh speech,…

After riding various vehicles for more than four hours, I finally got home. This busy week has finally come to an end. When I took a taxi from school to the high-speed-rail station, the driver told me a very funny joke on the way, which…

Guishen Pill ("Return-to-Kidney Pill") is a kidney-yin-nourishing formula from Jingyue Quanshu (Complete Works of Zhang Jingyue) by the Ming-dynasty physician Zhang Jingyue. It is composed of Shudihuang (processed Rehmannia) 8 liang (240 g), Huaishanyao (Chinese yam), Shanzhurou (cornus fruit), Fuling (Poria), Gouqizi (lycium fruit), Chao…