I’ve read the books and am about halfway through the Netflix version. The whole tree chopping saga was exactly as it was described in the books, unfortunately.

Omigod my (East Asian) parents do this as well. This makes so much sense now

Not open source but Sogou keyboard: https://shurufa.sogou.com/

The show also has a functioning communist society that is thriving out in the Midwest with functioning agriculture, 5 year plans, a movie theater, solidarity, and Marxist-Leninist policy

Wow, I didn’t expect that at all after having played the first two games. This actually makes me wanna go watch the show now. I wonder how the show will handle the main conflict in the second game, which was an imperialist and Islamophobic interpretation of the Palestinian occupation and honestly, pretty yuck.

I usually look it up on baike.baidu.com (Chinese version of Wikipedia) then paste the link into the textbox at fanyi.baidu.com for translation. On the right hand side of the arrow, select the second option, 英语, which means English.

To my understanding, scholarships from the China Scholarship Council have various dollar values, with the highest value scholarship being allocated by the Chinese embassy in your country. In my country, only 10 grad scholarships are available through the embassy. These students must be getting the lower value scholarships which are administered by the school.