English names were used a lot in our conversation with faculty and students but not all the time. It is interesting to learn how students get their english names - usually because someone started calling them that or as in one case because they thought Candice Bergen was beautiful on television. There is a form of discrimination in China. People from the north look down on people from the south as being uncultured. The regional differences in cultures run deep in China and can be traced through history.
People talk about physical differences as well as eating habits and lifestyles.
People in the south are often looked at as not traditionally Chinese. I had to go to Beijing or Xi'an. Naturally people from the south reciprocate with their own prejudices. It appears that most, if not all of, the professors at Wuyi were from the northern parts of China. In a way, this is parallel to the circumstances surrounding America around the time of the Civil War in the 1860s.