{"id":561,"date":"2026-07-12T08:26:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T00:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.youthtorch.org\/?p=561"},"modified":"2026-09-29T14:20:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T06:20:06","slug":"%e8%8b%8f%e5%b7%9e-%e5%a4%aa%e6%b9%96%e7%be%8e%e6%99%af%e4%b8%9c%e5%b1%b1%e9%95%87%e9%a3%8e%e5%85%89-beautiful-scenery-of-taihu-lake-and-dongshan-townsuzhou-city-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.youthtorch.org\/?p=561","title":{"rendered":"Searching for Loneliness: Interview Project | Building a Sense of Belonging in Futuristic Cities\ud83e\udd18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Searching for Loneliness: Interview Project 3 | Building a Sense of Belonging in Futuristic Cities\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xCCVJojdIeU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this interview, Yamen, a Palestinian student, shared his experiences studying in China with a British student. Both stated that China offers almost all the necessary learning and living resources, making it &#8220;the best choice&#8221; for them at present. When asked about their initial impressions of China, they described the campus and city environment as &#8220;modern&#8221; and &#8220;futuristic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Both arrived at the campus last year but said they haven&#8217;t felt significantly lonely and have already made many friends. Regarding language, Yamen pointed out that without understanding the language, it&#8217;s difficult to truly understand the culture, making language learning particularly important. He usually connects with other international students through English-speaking classmates.<\/p>\n<p>As for ways to reduce loneliness, they mentioned that in the UK, they build connections through community activities such as playing football or attending prayers at the mosque; similarly in Palestine, they maintain relationships through community and religious sites. For them, a sense of belonging comes from genuine face-to-face interaction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this interview, Yamen, a Palestinian student, shared his experiences studying in China with a British student. Both stated that China offers almost all the necessary learning and living resources, making it &#8220;the best choice&#8221; for them at present. When asked about their initial impressions of China, they described the campus and city environment as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15,34],"tags":[336,337,320,338,335,339,340],"class_list":["post-561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-society","category-travel-china","tag-british","tag-china-study-experience","tag-high-school-interview","tag-international-students-at-suzhou","tag-pakistan","tag-study-in-suzhou","tag-xjtlu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youthtorch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youthtorch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youthtorch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youthtorch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youthtorch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.youthtorch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":978,"href":"https:\/\/www.youthtorch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions\/978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youthtorch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youthtorch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youthtorch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youthtorch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}