UNIT-E January/February 2013

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UNIT-EJan/February Edition (Issue No. 20)Amelia ZhangErnest LiHanna KimHeather BudimuliaKathleen MaUNIT-E: Heather Budimulia & Kathleen MaHappenings: Gloria ZhangAcademics: Kun LiThe Arts: Lauren YouStudent’s Opinion: Vivian ZhangChillax: Isabella DuffyPictorial: Dennis ShengChinese: Melinda ChanKorean: JooYoung LeeChrystal LiBridget YeRosalind ChangKathy ZhouJinghan ZhaoRandy ZhangPhoebe WooHelen PoonKristy CheungAudrey LinLaura YuNicole NgJinghan ZhaoJunting YeungShannon HanAudrey LinNancy YangAnny ParkDion DongAngel GaoNathalie ChunYuki QiuRay ZhangVivian ChangJelly GuoAmanda SongSophia RheeYeJin SonDerek TuSarah QuanKathleen MaRussell NgAmanda SongGuido ArecesEmily TengSophia RheeVivian ZhangHeather BudimuliaGloria ZhangShiya Tong

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Contents January/February 2013 Issue 20

UNIT-EP.5 Letter from Editors-In-ChiefP.6 UNIT-E UpdatesP.7 Christmas at the UNIT-E Service Library

HAPPENINGSP.10 Beijing EventsP.11 Quirky Holidays

ACADEMICSP.14 Yale-NUS CollegeP.16 The Virtues of TwilightP.18 Expand Your Vocabulary

THE ARTSP.22 Must Read Short Story Collections (Pt. 1)P.24 Animal ArtP.25 Spotlight on Beijing’s Artistic MovementP.26 Art Feature

STUDENT’S OPINIONP.31 Money Doesn’t Create Spoiled ChildrenP.32 2013 년을 찾아 떠나는 길 人口에서P.34 City vs. Suburban LifeP.36 New Year’s Resolutions

CHILLAXP.38 Recipe of the Month: Nutella CookiesP.39 5 Great Card GamesP.41 元宵 P.42 Skateboarding

PICTORIALP.46 International Day (WAB)P.48 UNIT-E Library

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A LETTER FROM THE EDITORS-IN-CHIEFDear Reader,

Welcome to 2013 and to the Jan/Feb issue of UNIT-E!

We hope that you’re not sick of the festive spirit, as Chinese New Year is fast approaching on the heels of Christmas and New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. Apart from celebrating the well-known holidays with established traditions and recognized rituals, check out the more unique holidays in the Happenings column and develop your own ways to celebrate them.

In UNIT-E, the new year means a new staff line-up. We’d like to take this opportunity to say thank you to Amanda Song, Katie Dark and Hanna Kim for all of their time and effort—UNIT-E would have been drastically different without them. A slew of members have taken on leadership positions in UNIT-E and this issue could not have come together without their hard work and their willingness to learn. More information on these new Column Editors and Core Team members can be found in the Updates section.

This issue’s articles are as diverse as the writers themselves, and interesting pieces can be found in every column. It’s only in a magazine like UNIT-E that a single flip of a page can transport a reader from the IB-heavy satire of Twilight’s virtues to an article about spoiled children. The articles range from the usual recipe (Nutella cookies, anyone?), to the unexpected, including an extended service letter detailing the Christmas celebration that took place at UNIT-E’s very own service library.

On behalf of the entire Core Team, we hope that UNIT-E remains a magazine that you, reader, frequently flip through in 2013.

Yours faithfully, Heather Budimulia and Kathleen Ma


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ABOUT UNIT-E UNIT-E was founded in the spring of 2010 with the aim of establishing a non-profit, student-run magazine for international students in Beijing. Staffed by current students from a range of international schools, the magazine provides an amalgam of cultural tidbits, fragments of Beijing student life, and a broad spectrum of unique perspectives from a diverse group of young adults.

UNIT-E’S VISION AND PHILOSOPHY UNIT-E is dedicated to its service as a medium for the empowerment of international school students through writing and expression. The publication strives to support students in becoming proactive world citizens and developing strong involvement in addressing social issues in Beijing. Beijing international school students’ individual efforts to address a vast array of social issues have resulted in numerous small accomplishments that are successes in their own right, but have little impact on the large-scale issues which these projects address. UNIT-E believes in the synergy embedded in a dedicated core of proactive youths, whose united effort harbours an impact far beyond the small-scale. UNIT-E believes in the harnessing of this life-changing power - the ability for youth to create substantial improvement in any community through cohesive and comprehensive efforts - and so envisions UNIT-E as a framework for any and all Beijing students to engage with local Beijing and make a positive impact on the status quo.


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Congratulations to the stellar team at Unit-E!

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