Should I consider the North or the South? I am planning to transfer to China and I can’t quite decide which city to choose.
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Should I consider the North or the South? I am planning to transfer to China and I can’t quite decide which city to choose.
Webster University in Shanghai is one of China’s most exciting cities.
Shanghai is the ideal location for Webster’s China Studies program because it is a showcase of China’s rapid growth and a testament to China’s rich cultural heritage. As China’s most progressive city, Shanghai attracts people at home and abroad with its culture, history, people and all the vigor and vitality that make it international metropolis status.
depends on what kinda place u wanna go,
but if me i’ll choose south….like shanghai, hongkong
Hubei province ,Hunan province and Hong Kong.
It depends on what you’re planning on studying. I’m guessing you want to study Chinese (Mandarin), in which case DO NOT go to the South. If you are studying Cantonese, go to Hong Kong or Guangdong Province (Cantonese in Chinese is “Guangdong hua”)
Spoken Chinese varies drastically based on geographical location. For instance, local Shanghai people speak a language that most Chinese people cannot understand at all. In each region in the South, the locals will speak a very different dialect, and if you learn from them, people in other parts of the country will not be able to understand you.
The most standard Mandarin (Putonghua) comes from the North, as the last ruling dynasty, the Qing Dynasty were Manchu people who originated in the far North. So, in the Northeast (Harbin, Changchun), the locals will speak slow, perfect Mandarin Chinese, and that is the BEST place for foreigners learning Chinese. Beijing is far enough north that the locals speak almost standard Mandarin, they will just add an “R” sound on the end of a lot of words. The far North is very very cold – like Siberia cold – so don’t go there unless you’re really serious about studying Chinese. Beijing’s climate is pretty standard continental (pretty cold winter and hot summer), so if weather is an issue, just go there.
All mainland Chinese people, regardless of region, learn standard (Northern) Mandarin in school, but the majority of Chinese people still can’t afford to go to school, so you will inevitably spend a lot of time speaking to uneducated locals in their regional dialect. In universities, however, when the students come from all over, they are forced to communicate with each other in standared Mandarin.
That other answerer’s list of universities is good, but if communicating with locals is of interest to you, just choose Beijing. Peking University and Tsinghua (both in Beijing) are considered the best two universities in mainland China. Beijing has tons of other decent universities too. Seriously, when students from any region in the South call home, other students cannot understand at all. Chinese is not just Mandarin and Cantonese, there are literally of hundreds of dialects all over the south, many of them not intelligible to other Chinese people, so stay in the North until your Chinese gets pretty good.
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Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong would be the best cities for studying in China. Those three have the best universities in China. However, if I were you I would definitely go for Shanghai. You would get more than a university education in that fascinating city. Also below is the top ten universities in China.
Rank University
1 The University of Hong Kong
2 The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
3 The Chinese University of Hong Kong
4 Peking University
5 Tsinghua University
6 Fudan University
7 University of Science and Technology of China
8 Nanjing University
9 Shanghai Jiao Tong University
10 City University of Hong Kong
Good Luck!
Should I consider the North or the South? I am planning to transfer to China and I can’t quite decide which city to choose.