{"id":3713,"date":"2016-10-21T11:15:05","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T01:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/qut-exchange-students\/?p=3713"},"modified":"2020-12-03T12:21:41","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T02:21:41","slug":"why-i-chose-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/gone-global\/2016\/10\/21\/why-i-chose-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I chose China"},"content":{"rendered":"

Roisin: Zhejiang University, China: Semester 1, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Great Wall of China<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I have returned to Australia this past week after spending 6 months living in Asia. I spent one semester studying Mandarin at one of China\u2019s most prestigious universities, Zhejiang University, and then spent a month working at the law firm Herbert Smith Freehills in Hong Kong. The opportunity to study, work and live in Asia for 6 months was a once in a lifetime experience.<\/p>\n

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By the Bund in Shanghai during Australia in China Week<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As a law student, I have watched with interest the rapid economic growth of China and the corresponding opportunities that this is creating in the legal market, both domestically and internationally, as well as the increasing expansion of international law firms into the Chinese legal market. This, combined with a longstanding ambition of mine to learn a second language, drove me to embark on an exchange to China to learn Mandarin and immerse myself in Chinese culture.<\/p>\n

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