Youth Dream of Being Journalists, Not Judges
I remember when I worked for the U.S. State Department to receive visitors from China, there was always confusion on the Chinese side. They don't understand why the U.S. government includes legislative and judicial branches. For them, the word government (or Zhengfu in Chinese) is equal to the word "administration." And in their view, naturally a mayor holds the higher position and supervises a judge. The Chinese were shocked to see that in some American cities, the city hall is modest and small, with few steps and columns. Americans, for their part, were often equally shocked to see a twenty-something Chinese woman with no college degree being a municipal judge.
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