The Mid-Autumn Festival is a special time for many NYU Shanghai students. For some, it signals nostalgic memories; for others, it’s an exciting new tradition merging food with community. But no matter what, Mid-Autumn Festival always means mooncakes! Six NYU Shanghai students share how they celebrate it.
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For nine weeks they checked their native languages at the door; in the program, Mandarin was the only option.
NYU Shanghai’s fourth CCL Camp illuminated young lives.
“Bringing professors, students, and practitioners into the same room to discuss digital heritage—across research, education, exhibition, and industry—at this scale, with this intensity and thematic breadth, had never been done before. ”
The Class of 2025’s journey has been full of ups and downs and countless challenges.
With an itch to see more of China's lesser-visited regions, I began planning a trip to the northwest with seven friends — five Americans, one Pakistani, one Zimbabwean, and one Colombian.
Intramural sports and recreational activities are more than just about getting into shape—they’re a great way to meet new people, make memories, and find your crew.
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Assistant Professor of Computer Science Zhao Chen arrived at NYU Shanghai in the fall of 2023.
Marcela inspires students to approach sustainability critically and creatively while cultivating a community of knowledge sharers and accessible resources.
At NYU Shanghai, heritage language learners are getting a chance to improve their Mandarin skills while being exposed to the language outside of class and immersed in Chinese culture and society.
Coached by some of the world’s top minds in the field, the Assistant Professor of Computer Science made cryptography a lifetime academic pursuit.
International Dessert Festival--the sweetest way to celebrate learning languages
The camp was founded to support the children of migrant workers who grew up in Shanghai but face an imminent life transition as they must leave the city to continue their education in the places where their parents came from.