"People like Zhang were supposed to be different: he's what Chinese call a hai gui—"sea turtle"—referring to someone who has lived overseas. (The phrase is a pun on haiwai guilai, meaning "returned from overseas.")" —Melinda Liu and Duncan Hewitt, "Rise of the Sea Turtles," Newsweek, August 18/August 25, 2008.
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"People like Zhang were supposed to be different: he's what Chinese call a hai gui—"sea turtle"—referring to someone who has lived overseas. (The phrase is a pun on haiwai guilai, meaning "returned from overseas.")"
—Melinda Liu and Duncan Hewitt, "Rise of the Sea Turtles," Newsweek, August 18/August 25, 2008.
August 20, 2008