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The article offers the experience of the author as a university teacher in Hong Kong, China. Topics include she recall the time when she got the opportunity to be part of an educational experiment on the periphery of China; she remembers various interactions with her students and the various teaching methods, as well as her own examination of the racial, ethnic, and national meanings of being Chinese; and the divided attitude toward gender equality and feminism among the Chinese students.

Presents the short story "Accomplice to Memory," by Q. M. Zhang.

We have performed Raman-scattering measurements on a high-quality single crystal of the recently discovered Fe-based superconductor K0.8Fe1.6Se2 (Tc, = 32 K). At least 13 phonon modes were observed in the wave number range 10-300 cm-1. The spectra possess a fourfold symmetry indicative of bulk vacancy order in the Fe-deficient planes. We perform a vibration analysis based on first-principles calculations, which both confirms the ordered structure and allows a complete mode assignment. We observe an anomaly at Tc in the 180 cm-1 Ag mode which indicates a rather specific type of electron-phonon coupling. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]