University of California San Diego

What Beijing has taught me so far: anything that can heal is good

By Kaminta Hou, University of California, San Diego Currently, I am in my seventh week of research and am wrapping up the fieldwork portion of my project. As a quick reminder, I am in Beijing conducting an ethnography on how traditional Chinese medicine functions in modern society. So far, I have completed a handful ofContinue reading “What Beijing has taught me so far: anything that can heal is good “

One Month Left, and Somehow Everything Feels Different

By Elyssa Nguyen, University of California, San Diego It’s crazy to think that I have only one month left in South Korea. When I first arrived, I was mostly focused on getting through the basics: finding my way around Daejeon, figuring out the lab, trying not to accidentally embarrass myself, and convincing myself that IContinue reading “One Month Left, and Somehow Everything Feels Different”