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On two September Saturdays our students walked the Longji rice terraces as the rice ripened, then cycled the Yangshuo countryside and drifted…

Find the best VPNs for China in 2026, including Surfshark, Astrill, and NordVPN, plus setup tips, blocked websites, legal cautions, and useful…

At CLI we’ve always known that Guilin is beautiful and we’ve been on a mission to share the beauty since our founding…

Ben Hedges (郝毅博), the British presenter behind Learn Chinese Now, sat down with CLI to talk about studying at SOAS, going viral…

Happy Halloween from CLI! 万圣节快乐！ The CLI TeamThe Chinese Language Institute (CLI) is a center for Chinese language and cultural studies based…

If you're looking to improve your Mandarin skills while increasing your knowledge of U.S.-China relations, we highly recommend exploring the resources offered…

Video game fans across the world are anxiously anticipating the release of Shenmue 3 (release date TBA), an open-world RPG that will…

Simply put, Peter Stewart's photography is astonishing. His images, taken throughout China's Guangxi Province, are vivid yet surreal. As a fine art…

Michael Steverson is an American documentary and travel photographer living in Liuzhou, China. His work portrays the people and cultures of the…

We're already halfway through our first month of 2015, and Chinese New Year is just around the corner in February. Above is…

Last week, CLI said goodbye to a very special group: our fall semester Study Abroad students from SUNY New Paltz. CLI hosted…

On Friday, CLI hosted its annual Homestay Potluck Dinner to celebrate our homestay families. Each person brought one dish, and with 50…

包饺子！ CLI recently hosted a dumpling making party in the CLI kitchen! Dumpling making is often a social activity in China, with…

Michelle Obama and her daughters Sasha and Malia recently made a weeklong trip to China, spending time in Beijing, Xi'an, and Chengdu.…

Students, teachers, and other festive members of the CLI community celebrated the holiday season this week with a hotpot feast fit for…

CLI continues to strive to be a beacon, or in our case a glowing Chinese lantern, for Chinese language and culture. This…

There may not be snow in Guilin, but winter is still winter and with the changing seasons come new opportunities to experience…

Trees inside living rooms, lights draped on houses, jolly old men in red suits ringing bells outside department stores, and cars pouring…

CLI students spent this past Sunday on a cultural tour of the Guilin countryside. We may have started a little early for…

This week CLI is bustling with the start of a new school year. Everywhere one looks there are new faces, new smiles, and a…

Last week, CLI adventured into Guilin’s countryside for an evening of swimming and dining.  The beauty of studying Chinese in China is…

CLI celebrated the red, white, and blue with its second full house of the summer season, welcoming students from a variety of…

Last week, CLI was delighted to roll out the red carpet for two college-level study tour groups hailing from four different universities.…

An adventurous group of CLI students and teachers found themselves in paradise this weekend – a fool’s paradise.  愚自乐园, or Yuzi Paradise,…

With Chinese Immersion Program student Mikko having just shared the beauty of Guilin with his visiting parents, CLI was delighted to welcome…

In fall 2010, CLI took students on a two-day trip to Yangshuo (阳朔), a countryside town known for its otherworldly mountain landscape…

On one fall weekend, CLI took students to Guangxi's famous Longsheng rice terraces (龙脊梯田) for two days of exploring Yao and Zhuang…

During the annual Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival, friends and family gather to celebrate the fall harvest and anticipate the arrival of the autumn…

This past month CLI guided its fall semester and short-term students to a nearby Guilin plastics factory. There, we surveyed the day-to-day…

This past weekend CLI led our summer session students to Yangshuo (阳朔) for two days of bike riding through Guangxi's karst landscape,…