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Voted as Top 10 Blogs in China Nice job on the blog. gongxi gongxi Dave |
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I Draw my Own t-Shirt hi there.. may iam interested to draw something in my shirt but i dont know what good materials are good to use for doing this.. i don't like my art became fade after washing it.. i want to stay it long or forever i guess.. can you recommend me some good materials... |
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MovableType Successfully Installed on Windows XP i still can't get install the dbi and dbd-mysql modules after download the *.ppd files. For example i put the dbi.ppd file in c:\dbi\. and then i run command : ppm>install c:\dbi\dbi.ppd but i still got errors, the installation didn;t refer to directory c:\dbi\ Anybody help me? Thank you... |
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New IKEA Store Opens in Shanghai Dear Sir/Madam, This is Ms. Maryam Shakeri from Azaran Plastic Co. located in IRAN. We are one of the biggest manufacturer of PVC and MDF Wall panels and office partitions in the middle east also one of the biggest importer of HDF laminated and … from china. Our products accredited by ISO 9001,ISO 9002,CE and TUV standards that you can visit our website on www.azaran.com . Now we want to apply for representation of IKEA products and import all of IKEA`s products from China, we can buy IKEA products in high order per year, please send me the application form or any information that is necessary for representation. Looking forward to hearing from you ASAP! With best regards Maryam Shakeri |
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From Pu Dong Airport to People's Park best way to travel from Hangzhou or Hefei to Changzhou ( train , taxi , or air ) |
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SVB Bank is like a Family Jianshuo - thanks for the comment. I'm glad you had a good time enjoying the wine from napa valley with friends and I'm sure you are not the only one that found the evening an enjoyable one. cheers Steven |
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The World is Not Created by Genius - Part II Very interesting indeed. I think another factor is how seriously people take it. When I was reading this page, I didn't think much about it, just wanted to move forward quickly, and wrote 35 (my rough estimation as 2/3 of 50). As I see the result now, it's 17.44, getting closer to the next level, which shows that the article has an educational effect. |
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Pudong Airport Maglev in Depth post made by Kenshin is so STUPID!! |
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More Cats in My Garden That is so cool your helping them. I'm sure they are greatful. I wish people wouldn't abandon their pets. |
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SVB Bank is like a Family Wow! Now it's perfect. You are really quick, efficient and helpful, Jianshuo. Thanks! ^-^ Please accecpt this sincere commendation from a Virgo. |
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My Google PageRank Increases to PR5 i think page rank doesnt affect the traffic at all, its only prestigious to have a good page rank |
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SVB Bank is like a Family @Michelle, don't worry. I will be happy to help you to do the change. |
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SVB Bank is like a Family Hi! Jianshuo, I've found that three of my recent comments are signed in the color of darker green, different from the ones I always leave. I think the reason is that I just made some mistakes when typing my email. It is a matter of big concern whether I could get the sepecially designed golden medal in the far future, so could you do me a favor to make some correction in the database when you have time? I think you can just select the top 6 comments by Michelle in the comment talbe, and update the email in the records by the one I left before. I really appreciate it if you could make any correction. And I think I will tick the checkbox 'remember my information' and not clear the cookies when shutting down the browser to aviod the same mistake in the future. Haha, sorry for that. I'm that kind of person always in pursuit of perfection, because my horoscope is Virgo. |
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Shanghainese Girl Marrying Foreigners Nothing wrong with dating westerns. I have been married for 12 years to a Shanghainese girl. I know several other younger American males that would also put forth the same effort I have if they found a nice Chinese girl to spend their life with. BD, I think you have to learn which men are willing to put forth that effort. Although rare, they exist, just as do the young beautiful and truly committed Chinese girls that are not trying to screw over they foreigner. The biggest problem is very basic. Chinese people in general don't trust people outside their own nuclear family. It's very hard to have a real relationship with someone when then don't trust you. Westerners on the other hand have grown up in a culture of trust. Because of this very large gap at such a basic level it can take years to develop a solid relationship between a Westerner and a Chinese person. Most are not willing to do what it takes - years of hard work and life-long commitment. Sound too serious? Well it is, and that's why most of the types of relationships you're talking about eventually fail. |
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SVB Bank is like a Family Wow! You're enjoying a fulfilling life. BTW, I'm drinking a litte bit red wine before sleep at night these days, haha, expecting to make my eyes brighter. ^-^ +U |
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Visited Two Companies Oh, I see. Thanks, Jianshuo. I think I've known this great group you mentioned since there were the advertisements of Wangwang Xianbei on TV long long ago when I was a little kid. A beautiful girl of middle school age being dressed like a princess just scampered out on the screen, then I could hear the words "香米里的好风味，旺旺鲜贝!". Haha, that's just what the ad like in my memory. |
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Exchange RMB for USD at Pudong Airport I live in the US and is selling an apartment in Shanghai to fund the purchasing of an apartment in New York. How do I convert and transfer the money to the US? The money with which I bought the apartment in SH was wired to China via Bank of China years ago. |
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Visited Two Companies Michelle, you are right for the name of the building - they were named after the Wang Wang group from Taiwan. |
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Impact of US Financial Crisis on China The DOW has certainly been taking big beatings in the recent past with more likely to follow. This meltdown is far from pretty. I think the Shanghai stock market has suffered enormously this year. How has this affected my daily life? Answer: I have a lot of mixed feelings including disgust, angst, fear, worries and a general sense of not feeling very wealthy riding on a downhill roller coaster and feeling my house value drop. I heard that Icelandic banks were previously very aggressive opening banks in Norway and promising depositors high interest rates. Now those poor Norwegians can't even get their money out. |
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Visited Two Companies You're also the one of great people and give people inspiration tenderly through your thoughts. |
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F1 Grand Prix Shanghai Pictures Are buses still leaving from Shanghai Staduim this year (10-18-2008)? If So.... Do I get shuttle tickets in advance? Pay that morning? Cost? What time should I arrive if the Qualifying starts at 11am? Thanks Robb |
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Shanghainese Girl Marrying Foreigners It seems I am the only negative voice here. "Girls start to date with westerners since 20 year old. There are two types of westerners. One looking for true love, the other play with Chinese girls...." That is the chinese girls' expereince and knowledge about their western dating counter part.... Does that prove my point? Any pro-western dating people out there? Hello???? |
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I Use Public Transportation Now Paul, I don't you can do the reading while taking Shanghai Metro at that peak hours... especially Line 1. Once you reach People Square Station, you will be squeeze like a sandwich. The best thing to do is listening to your mp3. Maybe play some interesting podcast tracks. |
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Software List for Newly Installed PC i use foxit reader before, then i found that pdf-xviewer is more powerful |
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Visited Two Companies Wang Wang Tower? Does it spell '旺旺' in Chinese? Really a cute and Chinese-characterized name if it is, huh? |
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Software List for Newly Installed PC Shen Xin, it is pretty straight forward. Right click on any open space of Desktop. Choose Properities... on the pop up menu. You can change the fonts at Appearence tab. Click Effect... button on the appearence tab, and you can choose ClearType from the second drop down box. One thing to note is, Chinese fonts does not support ClearType, so it has no effects for Simplified Chinese Windows XP, but after you change the Windows font to English font, it will show the difference. |
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Software List for Newly Installed PC Hi, two questions, How to Turn on ClearType How to change the font family for titles 3Q |
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I Use Public Transportation Now Public transportation is good for one's health. You now wake up earlier and go to bed earlier. What could be better? ;-) |
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Rent an Apartment in Shanghai 5.800 RMB - Apartment 2-1-1 in Shanghai, Jing an district. Address: 1128 Wu ding xi lu. 14 floor. (close to Wu ning nan lu) The apartment, 102 sqm, is fully furnished. It has: Kitchen and bathroom 2 BEDROOMS with full size beds and conditioned air 1 big LIVING ROOM with conditioned air BALCONY Washing machine, microwave, 2 TV, fridge, . .. Very good building and situation. Close to Shanghai's city center. 10 minutes walking from line 2 metro station, in Jing An Temple. Many shops, markets, supermarkets, hairdressers, hipermarket, restaurants, etc. around. Common gardens. Video surveillance 24 hours. DEPOSIT IS 1160 RMB. Price 5800 RMB per MONTH. Period of minimum rental is for one year. Contact me by E-mail or Mobile: 1582 101 2728 Available now |
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Software List for Newly Installed PC try maxthon customed 'search toolbox other than google', for one merit |
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I Use Public Transportation Now Another benefit of the train that I've found - reading while going to work. You can't do it while you're driving, but on the train you can just power through novels, or magazines, or business books, etc. Much more productive and fun than listening to the radio in the car. Also, think of all the exercise you get from walking up & down the stairs. Something you don't get while driving. |
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Foreign Job Seekers Move to Shanghai Hi, everyone, My name is Maggie as a corporate account manager working for international moving company. If you would like to stay in Shanghai or you were in Shanghai now and would to move from Shanghai to other city/country, how do you do with your personal goods? you have to choose and compare between serveral moving companies, because you're not sure which moving company would be best. Is the moving company promise safty and professional for your goods? I am working in a international moving company as a corporate account manager, alway do so many surveys for household goods from Shanghai to other countries, if you have anything problems for your moving, I always at your service:) I will give you some advisements for your upcoming moving for different countries. you also can look through our website (www.aemovers.com.hk) 137 6468 0609 It's no wonder that 99% of our customers affirm that they would "use Uni Group Worldwide UTS again and refer us to a friend." |
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Foreign Job Seekers Move to Shanghai Hi, everyone, My name is Maggie as a corporate account manager working for international moving company. If you would like to stay in Shanghai or you were in Shanghai now and would to move from Shanghai to other city/country, how do you do with your personal goods? you have to choose and compare between serveral moving companies, because you're not sure which moving company would be best. Is the moving company promise safty and professional for your goods? I am working in a international moving company as a corporate account manager, alway do so many surveys for household goods from Shanghai to other countries, if you have anything problems for your moving, I always at your service:) I will give you some advisements for your upcoming moving for different countries. you also can look through our website (www.aemovers.com.hk) 137 6468 0609 It's no wonder that 99% of our customers affirm that they would "use Uni Group Worldwide UTS again and refer us to a friend." |
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Foreign Job Seekers Move to Shanghai If you would like to stay in Shanghai or you were in Shanghai now and would to move from Shanghai to other city/country, how do you do with your personal goods? you have to choose and compare between serveral moving companies, because you're not sure which moving company would be best. Is the moving company promise safty and professional for your goods? I am working in a international moving company as a corporate account manager, alway do so many surveys for household goods from Shanghai to other countries, if you have anything problems for your moving, I always at your service:) I will give you some advisements for your upcoming moving for different countries. you also can look through our website (www.aemovers.com.hk) 137 6468 0609 It's no wonder that 99% of our customers affirm that they would "use Uni Group Worldwide UTS again and refer us to a friend." |
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Shanghai Metro Map and Timetable Hello any one can help me. I will go next week to Shanghai city and i need to go to the Shanghai Circuit from Shanghai South Railway Station. Any one know the best way to do it. thanks |
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Software List for Newly Installed PC As a Mac user I don't have to worry about most of these things. Or viruses. Why do most people still use PCs? |
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Prepaid Gas and Electricity in Beijing Hello, thanks for this interesting post ! Helen, www.zongdo.com Asian Dating, Shanghai Dating, Hong Kong Dating and Classifieds |
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Prepaid Gas and Electricity in Beijing Hello, thanks for this interesting post ! Helen, www.zongdo.com Asian Dating, Shanghai Dating, Hong Kong Dating and Classifieds |
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I Use Public Transportation Now Hello, thanks for this interesting post ! Helen, www.zongdo.com Asian Dating, Shanghai Dating, Hong Kong Dating and Classifieds |
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Crossing Over with Hong Huang Oct 8the, 2008 Hello. First I would like to say that I appreciate and generally enjoy this program. I do, however, wish to make some critical remarks about a recent episode during which the topics included guanxi - the traditional Chinese "friendship in business" approach to business. I am not sure when this episode aired originally but I caught the program last week. During this episode both Hong Huang and her guest on this program - a young man who is the CFO of a Shanghai based company, made some commments which I found to be questionable, at least, perhaps even irresponsible. During their conversations Hong Huang and her guest compared Chinese guanxi to American business practices and stated that America has its own version of guanxi. Now, it may be true that in America, as in all cultures, who you know is often as important as what you know. But surely only a naive perspective would suggest that the use of influence and personal relationship in business in the West can be equated with the use of guanxi in China. Yes, in the West we do sometimes, perhaps often, use our personal influence in business, but we do not openly offer bribes to government officials. The use of personal influences with government officials is criminalized within the legal system of all modern nations, and that, in fact, includes China. This is why I was shocked to hear Hong Huang's guest report that he bribed a government official, to expediate his home purchase, but at the same time he stated that this is not illegal.This kind of action is certainly illegal in China and runs counter to China's entry into the WTO. Yes, in America, in the west, influence is important at times and is sometimes used illegally but you would never hear an American CFO, any American, talking openly about how he bribed a government official, certainly not without fear of legal action. Yes, in America influence peddling does occur but this is culturally a negative thing and is strongly dealt with in American law, and has never been an accepted part of American culture such that Americans would defend the activity. And certainly no mature American I know would seek to defend a flaw in American culture by suggesing the same flaw exists in another culture. And certainly no American would go on a popular TV program and talk openly about bribing government officials. I was shocked by Hong Huang's and her guest's cavalier, insensitive attitudes - but I tell you I was brought to pose mostly by the open admission. Just a moment ago I suggested that only a naive perspective would suggest the use of influence in America is equivalent to or similiar to the widespread, culturally (and until recently legally) accepted use of guanxi in China. But I think neither Hong Huang nor her guest are naive. Both seem to be educated people with considerable knowledge of other cultures. No, I do not think these two individuals commented as they did because they are naive. Both Hong Huang and her guest sounded as though they were doing a bit of face saving - trying in some way to brush off the damaging effects that guanxi has had on trust in China amoung the Chinese and trust of China by other nations and peoples. Perhaps it is a hard pill for the Chinese to swallow, but, from a Western perspective it does, when one examines public behaviour, the substance and degree of regulation in China, that the Chinese people do trust the Chinese people less than Americans trust each other - perhaps guanxi has had much to do with this. I mean if you are in the habit of using guanxi how can you trust a person to do their duty when you play a game where the highest bidder gets the win - and that any "bid" is not just about money but is also about future and family plans, past greviances and present demands, great depth in subterfuge and subtext. And would this not make you a bit cynical or untrusting, yourself untrustworthy? Well, maybe not in a context where all the players are playing the same game. Are all the players in China playing the same game? Not in China, in modern China of international business. But even more sadly I make a shiny penny of a crushed coin if I suggest that, even in a purely Chinese context, guanxi is defensible from a Chinese point of view. Guanxi, in so much as it has always been seen as a negative aspect of government involvment, has always been looked down upon here in China, talked about in hushed tones and over polite formulaic cultural markers, not usually spoken of so vocally. And so I would not want to discredit the value of any medium, such as "Crossing OVer", which allowed discusion on like matters but I think one unfortunate result is that the issue become one of comparison - 'this is Chinese and that is not', very typical, but this comparison hides the real fact of what guanxi has been or what it has meant in a Chinese context. Most Chinese people do not have any guanxi, or if so their guanxi is often more perception than fact: they think they do have guanxi, in some small context, and perhaps weild it or not; but most Chinese, I think, as a greater result of guanxi look too much at the successes/failures of their neighbors and begin negotiations with strong reservations about others in business and government. Hong Huang and her guest repeatedly compared the Chinese situation to America. I think this is not a fair comparison because such comparisons are unnecessary and only help to cloud matters. I believe if one wants to discover the value and acceptability of guanxi in China one should speak to the Chinese. I suspect that the rich, or let's say 'successful', who have guanxi, and the wanna be's who wanna have, might very well appreiciate the use of guanxi. But I feel quite confident saying that the vast majority of Chinese are privately and secretly tired of finding themselves and their families at a disadvantage to those who possess guanxi. I would not want to venture a guess at how many Chinese have been unable to get their children into their school of choice, find suitable employment or living quarters, to name but a few areas where guanxi is used. I suspect these people, the vast majority of Chinese, if they give the matter any thought, and if anyone listened to their opinion, would declare they wish to have an open/transparent systems that frowns on the use of guanxi. I suspect these people, perhaps even a few who had to stand in line a bit longer because Hong Huang's guest paid someone to help with his home purchase, would not be so willing to declare the benifits of guanxi or to compare that to the use of influence in the West. Although, being Chinese in current China, these people might, as did Hong Huang and her guest, feel the need to do a bit of face saving and try to down play the negative effects of guanxi, while in their secret hearts despising. Remember please, China still ranks #12 on some lists of the world's most corrupt nations. Remember please that one of the reasons Zhou Enlai opened China's doors to the west was because he predicted that only influence from outside China would cause a reform in the middle and lower levels of government where corruption was incredibly widespread. I think if one wishes to consider the rightfulness and responsibe-ness of the comments made by Hong Huang and her guest, one need only consider Hong Huang's closing comments. At the end of this episode on guanxi, Hong Huang, now seemingly assured that she has rightfully compared guanxi in China to the use of influence in America, stated: (I paraphrase) "If you want to succeed in China, until such time as China has transparent systems you had better collect as much guanxi as possible." No doubt. Yet, to me this is an incredibly irresponsible comment. Her meaning is, in essence, transparent systems are good but until we have them if you want to succeed it is best to use guanxi because they also do this in the West." That's like saying "I want to do the right thing but I will not do it until everyone else does." Need I point out the illogicality of such a comment. "I want my cake but I want to eat it too". But the sad thing is that the "cake" was never delicious. And to state again, the crimminal use of influence in America is nothing like the culturally accepted (thought technically illegal) use of guanxi in China. Yes, Americans have lobbiest who work for business and, both professionally and personally, there are certainly cases where personal/financial influence is used. But in China you have a different situation. You have a government which has adopted laws very similiar to those in the West so as to curb the use of influence or guanxi but those laws have not taken hold in China the way they have in America. Perhaps, inpart, because America was founded on a philosophy which addressed such use; whereas, Chinese culture has accepted guanxi for many, many hundreds, perhaps thousands of years and that culture has remained stronger than any form of government. The government (I say in an effort to keep the focus where it should be) as would be the case anywhere, would employ gaunxi to whatever degree such tactics were acceptable in the culture, broadly. Which would bring us to a political discussion, unnecessary here: something along the lines of bottom up as apposed to top down government. But we are not talking about politics here, except perhaps in that word's broadest meaning, where all interactions are political. No, we are talking about culture, because Hong Huang's show is an attempt to cross over, be it to my flavour on one given day, or not. And the essential point I would like to make is about tone and how the tone of Hong Huang's hosted commentary seemed to, in my mind, mask certain truths about culture. Now, I am not defending America - in fact I am not American, and I believe that the Chinese way of 'doing things' is valid and correct in as many cases as may not but, I cannot imagine how the comparisons and comments offered on "Crossing Over" are useful, positive, or even correct. I think we would find very few Westernes who have a pocket full of guanxi and so I wonder what you would tell those folks in terms of how it is that they should succeed in business, in China. Well, we all know one sure route, get yourself a Chinese partner who has a lot of guanxi. So, you see, I am not naive and I recognize reality, that no matter my ideals I must put my pants on one leg at a time, each day, and go off to do my 'thing' in a world filled with guanxi and other negatives. My complaint is based on my perception that most Chinese people have no guanxi and don't like the idea of guanxi and comparing across cultures hides this fact. My complaint is also based on my perception that Chinese people, who wish to be proud of their nation but sometimes find themsleve unable to do so faced with contradictions between the vocalized goals of 'modern China' and the continued use of archaic, inhumane, and illegal traditional social/business practices. The tone I picked up on from Hong Huang and her guest was a desire to be proud of China and so they saught to brush of the negativity off guanxi. All people wish to be proud of their culture/nation and often find ways to create comparisons that place them in a favorable light. In this regard, Chinese people sometimes do, as I suspect Hong Huang did, resort to fallacious comparisons of China/America (the West) such that they (perhaps hope to bring China's real attitudes out into the open but in doing so) attempt to mitigate the negativity of such matters via flawed comparisons. So, on one hand, I thank Hong Huang and her guest for vocalizing the fact that guanxi is still a very significant aspect of life in China. On the other hand, I find grave fault with the comparisons used to downplay the negativity of guanxi. The long and the short of my comment is to suggest that commentaries such as the one I point to, this recent episode on "Crossing Over", come across as either incredibly naive or as attempts to save face. My perception is that the latter is more the case here. Hong Huang's is an unfortunate stance because any mature person knows that America, the West, has its problems and so for people with this mindset Chinese do themselves no favours by comparing China to America, and especially no favours in any case where the comments/comparisons are irresponsible and plainly inaccurate. And most sadly Hong Huang's stance shows a disregard for the 'common folks' in China who I am sure despise guanxi, and shows a seeming naivety about the differences in access to guanxi for people from the various areas and demographies in China, as compared to others living on the 'developed' Eastern seaboard of China. I would suggest that cultural comments should be grounded in the context within which they make most sense: perhaps 'Crossing Over' could air an interview with the unfortunates who waited as Hong Huang's guest received VIP status. Indeed, I recognize the flippancy of that last suggestion; however, any commentary about guanxi in China should consider the affects of guanxi on China, both domestically and internationally, and not seek to save face via an attempt to mitigate negativity with flawed comparisons. There may indeed be similiarities between influence peddling/purchasing in the West and Guanxi in China. None-the-less, the physicist in me wants to highlight that, though all things change only by degree, there are differences in degree which, being particular differences of degree such that, we recognize those as differences in kind: genius, for one quick example and, as another, most any ajudicated matter of law - the case of legality on the matter of guanxi was settled when China entered the WTO. Guanxi is simply different than what ever similiar aspect might exist in the West. And the effects of either Chinese Guanxi/American 'whatever' are best examined domestically prior to any international comparison. I suspect, both objectivily and anecdotally, one would discover the very negative domestic effects, on trust in China, resulting from guanxi long before one would discover trust issues, in America, related to American 'guanxi'. And to do that bit of discovery we need not enter an arena where no one wins; so let's keep that discovery of inherent cultural value, or aspect there-of, in the context it deserves. Guanxi, east or West, needs be examined in the first case, within domestic perceptions and outside overarching political theories where mistrust is the rule, in internationalized discussions, truthful or not, about matters such as America's "real imperialist intentions" or similiar polorizations and rhetoric about China. The context for discussion of guanxi need not employ arbitrary comparisons between nations and cultures. If that is strongly put, I remind myself and others that I am making a point generally about the value of any comparison between China and America. For that general purpose I speak specifically about the discussion on "Crossing Over" and I am not in any way defaming Hong Huang. In any case, best of luck. |
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Top 3 Issues of Shanghai Tourism Hi, currently i'm in shanghai.... been here for 10 days... another 4 days to go... so far, if i were to say the top 3 improvements for shanghai in terms of tourism are: 1. English - be it menus in the restaurants (big or small, as foreigners love to try local shanghainese food); waitress/waitresses should be able to say/recognise at least "welcome", "thank you", "food recommendation", "water", "tea", all those common ones; clothing shops staff should be able to say/recognise at least the types of colors "red", "blue", etc, as well as clothes size "S" "M" "L", "small" "medium"; ------------- it's been a challenging days for me communicating with the locals, most of the time when i go shopping i got a shock due to their way of speaking (loud, very direct, tone can be classified as rude), but i understand it is their WAY/culture of talking, however if they can be educated to better accommodate foreigners, it would definitely make foreigners feel much more comfortable when they dine, shop, etc. 2. Cleanliness - on the roads people spitting, the awful restrooms everywhere from restaurants to shopping centers, the smell of pee on the roads, the whole lots of rubbish on the streets at nights.... perhaps the tourism department should consider looking at how singapore has been so successful in maintaining excellent cleanliness for its country although its population is 4 times smaller than shanghai. 3. Define massage places clearly, indicate those with "Extra services" and those without - so many international visitors coming to shanghai would love to have a good proper massage without those extra services... |
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Software List for Newly Installed PC I like Sogou Pinyin, and maybe I have used it for more than year, it is much better than the traditional ones. ^_^ |
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Back from Chongming Island Jianshuo - Thank you very much for your blog. I lived on Chong Ming Dao for the summer of 2006. I taught English at the High School on Beiman Road. It has been two years since I was there and I miss it very much. Your blog makes me feel close to my Chinese home again. Do you think that the Shanghai Yangtze River and tunnel will make Chong Ming grow to be a big city like Shanghai? |
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Impact of US Financial Crisis on China I think China's disaster will soon come. When it finally comes, it will be far more devastating than that in the US. |
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Impact of US Financial Crisis on China I think China's disaster will soon come. When it finally comes, it will be far more devastating than that in the US. |
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Software List for Newly Installed PC I usually add 7zip, and FoxIt Reader (to replace Adobe reader). |
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Impact of US Financial Crisis on China The financial crisis is all the UK news will talk about and I can't help but feel that constant reporting of a lack of confidence in the global markets is adding to the lack of confidence. People need to stop panicing and take deep breaths. |
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I Use Public Transportation Now I have recently moved to the apartment near my work place (5 mins walk), the rent is rather high but I can save time on travelling and wake up one hour later... |
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Travel Plan to Kanas Lake, Xinjiang jian shou, i finally made it to kanas lake. the scenery there is amazing, however the fish viewing pavilion is under renovation. they are building another structure beside the pavilion. look like a pagoda. |
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Last Day of National Holiday Yifan is such a cute angel that I wanna to hold him in my arms one day. And I will give birth to a baby only if I'm convinced that I've found someone who can be a good father of my baby. |
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I Use Public Transportation Now So far as I am concerned, an alarm clock really works in waking me up one hour ealier, while it's so not easy for me to go to bed one hour earlier. I tried to get rid of the habit of going to bed too late, and I failed. Maybe I need a much stronger determination. Haha, that's the reason why find that U just express your idea by "try to go to bed one hour earlier than before. " |
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Rent an Apartment in Shanghai one spacious flat (130 m2)in Shimao lake side garden, fully furnished in good condition, one master bed room with Jacuzzi bathtub, one guest bed room, one guest WC, one lounge, one dining room, one big kitchen with all the electrical appliance and utensils, one balcony with great view. for short lease (max. 3 month, starting from 15 October) Mobile: 13817818364 |
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Bus from Beijing Airport to Tianjin Hmmm.... I remember there are shuttle bus between the T3 terminal and Tianjin, but not very sure. |
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Last Day of National Holiday Carroll, I will. He is very cute, and everyone enjoys holding him in arm - while, sometimes he does not enjoy it as much as we do when he is busy working on some toys. He just just a little cute angel. |
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Last Day of National Holiday I AM CONSIDERING HAVE A BABY IN MY LIFE AFTER YOUR POST. SINCE THERE ARE SO MUCH HAPPINESS BEHIND BABY,S CRY AND SMILE. |
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Wendy's High School Gathering Wendy is beautiful and smiles well:) |
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Q4 2008 Begins you are so DRIVEN MAN I AM ENVY YOU ON YOUR ENERGY TO LIFE AND WORK |
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Bus from Beijing Airport to Tianjin How can i take the bus from Beijing Airport to Tianjin? |
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Rent an Apartment in Shanghai I have a two bed room flat in Shimao Lakeside garden for short lease (max. 3 months). If you are interested, please call 13817818364 |
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Salary in Shanghai - Part II I've been working & living in Shanghai for more than 8 years, can speak mandarin (cannot grade myself but can even handle meetings in mandarin). Have been doing logistics for different companies (both local & foreign). Now i am expecting and offer from a top 5 worldwide logistics co. by the recommandation of my origin country branch of theirs, to continue working for them here in shanghai, beeing responsibke for mainly the traffic from/to china/that region. I'd appreciate if anyone can comment on what i can require for compansation and benefits. Shall it be something between a full expat and local hire package ? I am currently making around 35-40 k RMB/month (including housing allowance and etc.) thanks in advance... |
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Happy Birthday to Me *$*Wish you Happy birthday Amar.*$* |
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Rent an Apartment in Shanghai I have looking for a one bedroom in ChangNing. My budget is 4000rmb per month....please email me at markdow11@hotmail.com |
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Jinqiao Biyun International District Hi, We are a couple who are looking for rent an apartment in Shanghai, in Pudong area. We are students from CEIBS and right now we are in USA, but we come back to Shanghai next January. We are looking for a cheap furniture apartment for two or three months close to CEIBS. Thanks, Veronica |
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Jinqiao Biyun International District Hi, We are a couple who are looking for rent an apartment for tow months in Shanghai. Last year we lived in Shanghai (in Pudong area) but right now we are studying in USA. We will come back to Shanghai on January, so we will need to find an apartment before that time. We are looking for a cheap furniture apartment close to CEIBS. Thanks, Veronica |
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Rob's Skateboard Journey Wish I could see him in Shanghai in person, but fact is I don't think so! Snow backgroud story there is true in Dubai, wholly man-made, just as creazy as this man!!! JC |
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Rob's Skateboard Journey Wish I could see him in Shanghai but I don't think so. Great and tough man! BTW, snow backgroud in Dubai is true, as unbelievable as what this guy did! JC |
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Last Day of National Holiday That's a wonderful way to describe your feelings about a child, Jian Shuo. :-) And even from a mother's perspective, I think your "formula" is more accurate that Wendy's. Eventually, even the difficult times when they are small seem to blend together into a blur of happy memories. No one can ever tell you ahead of time what an amazing change it will be. Truly, your life will never be the same. Give him a snuggle for me, OK? |
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Snowing Huangshan I won't say it is the best season to visit Huangshan, but there is no reason to postpone or change the time to visit - Huangshan is completely different in many seasons, and you always have to visit the mountain for many times to see them all. I went there for three times, and each time, I was not lucky enough to see the mountain - it was always froggy or raining. |
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Snowing Huangshan Hey, I'm from Malaysia too. I plan to go HuangShan end of December 2008, heard that its gonna be very cold and I have never been to any place with winter season. Anyone have any idea whether its a good season to go on December? Thanks.... |
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From Pu Dong Airport to People's Park Hi, just call a taxi on the street or ask the hotel to do it for you. Both are fine. There are taxi everywhere running on the street, unless it is raining or rush hours. Pay whatever shown on the meter, nothing more than that. You even don't need to pay tip (if you want to , that will be appreciated, but rare). |
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Different Views on Typhoon why do typhoons and oher natural disasters happen in certain places |
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From Pu Dong Airport to People's Park Hi Mr Wang I'll be staying at Charms (Zhongfu) Hotel and there are 4 of us (adults) leaving for Pudong airport. Since there are a few suit case and items, we intend to take a taxi to the airport. What's your advice - whether we should hail for a taxi outside the hotel or book it through the hotel as we are told that it's more expensive to get one on our own outside the hotel? Roughly what would the fare like and are there any additional charges (service charges, tips, etc) on top of the meter readings? Thanks |
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Why Things in China is Cheap? Yeah and the cheap chinese import, labour and competition have pushed global wages down the scale |
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Why Things in China is Cheap? the reason why one person above the page says that the western products are much cheaper than china products is because of the trade policy that was imposed by president bush, it has something to do with the tariffs given to the exporter going inside u.s.. he imposed such a high amount of tariffs for him to product his local products... |
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Pudong Airport Maglev in Depth Has enyone thought about how much real estate there is on these levitated road ways to carpet them in solar voltaic cells? |
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Areas to Visit in Shanghai hi all, i arrive in SGH 2 weeks ago, to meet my friend. it's my first trip in SGH, but not the first in China or other asian countries. ;-) i lived before in HKG, for 3 years long. my friend take my around his city, and he show me all of the place everybody recommended. so, i'm proud of him, because he is a good, sorry, a very good guide. thx my friend and good discovery for everyone coming next to SGH. |
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Rob's Skateboard Journey One of my friend...went around the world in a bike (motor cycle)....last year.....find his experiences in his blog http://bikingtheworld.blogspot.com/ |
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Prepaid Gas and Electricity in Beijing isn't that troublesome? have to go to the bank and queue to reload the prepaid cards? I guess I will be miserable having to queue and reload the prepaid. Worst if you have language communication problem. |
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Train Tickets in Shanghai Railway Station HI THERE, I WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT FIRST CLASS AND SECOND CLASS TRAIN TICKETS FROM WUXI TO SHANGHAI? CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN THE DIFFERENCE TO ME? I KNOW THERE IS PRICE DIFFERENCE, BUT WHAT ARE DIFFERENCES ARE THERE? I AM ALSO LOOKING FOR DETAILED BUSROUTE MAPS FOR WUXI IN PARTICULAR. THE SAME ONES THAT ARE DISPLAYED IN THE BUS AND THE LEFT OF THE EXIT DOOR! CAN ANYONE HELP PLEASE? SOME KIND OF BOOKLET FOR ALL BUSROUTES? REGARDS GAWIE WUXI |
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Resume from Long Pause of Blogging Finally you are back! I like your blogs very much, Please do consist on them. |
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My Google PageRank Increases to PR5 Page Rank is not a real factor anymore. Anyway - The PageRank Bar only shows you the last status (when PR was last updated which is every 3-4 months) and not giving you information about how much "real power" does the current page holds at the specific moment. |
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Plastic Bags in Seattle JianShou, may be you are not awared that starting 01 Jan 2009, Seattle will start to charge a Green Fee of 20 cents a bag. Banning free plastic bag is a good thing, but rise the ecological awareness through education is something else. In Shanghai I can still see many excess packaging, moon cake is a good example. In the beverage business, most of the disposable packaging actually cost more than the content and it creates more solid waste than plastic bag. Last month I had a dinner at Shanghai Spring, after the dinner I asked the waitress to bag the leftovers, I was given a nice and strong clear plastic box together with a nicely printed paper bag just for two dumplings, I am overwhelmed! |
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Rob's Skateboard Journey so wonderful of the two guy! i envy them.of course, i think they are enjoying their happy life. |
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Rob's Skateboard Journey Haha. Yes. Matt went to almost every place in the world, and do the dance - what he called "bad dance"... |
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Rob's Skateboard Journey Wow! Really amazing dance! Does this guy tavel to every corner of the world to show his unique dance? It seems that most of the time there were no audience at all, maybe he just doesn't need any audience. Anyway my horizons are broadened again, and I love the stone where he danced at Norway, it's just challenging. |
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Different Ways to Waste Energy Rob, the journey is amazing. I just dropped an email to you. Do you have time to meet in Shanghai? |
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Prepaid Gas and Electricity in Beijing Maybe one of the side effect of the prepaid thing is to help people to raise awareness of natural resources, and maybe someone will think of environment protection. You always need to worry that turning on the light meaning that you need to go out and buy the electricity quicker.... |
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Adidas in Sanlitun Beijing Hehe. It is. I just added a note to this page. |
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Prepaid Gas and Electricity in Beijing In 2004 the wife, I, daughter and son-in law visited wife's family. We stayed a day or two in a small hotel in Hengyuan. All the others went shopping and I went back to the hotel room but could not figure out how to get the electricity in the room to work. I saw a slot in the wall by the door and remembered the clerk had put the card in the slot when showing the room. THAT was what turned on the juice. The prepaid cards, while putting some pressure on the users have an upside in that they allow for budgeting. You can allocated only what you can for various utilities. With the cards you will also learn exactly what you use. |
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Adidas in Sanlitun Beijing is this supposed to mean something? |
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Plastic Bags in Seattle Heh, well California is getting ready to ban plastic bags soon too. I almost always say no when offered a bag for some small purchase, and I have a big supply of cloth and paper bags in my car which I re-use until they are falling apart. Of course most of the time I forget to bring them into the store with me, so to "punish"/re-train myself I carry or wheel my purchases, un-bagged, out to the car. I wonder how long it will take for me to remember to bring them in with me. |
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Prepaid Gas and Electricity in Beijing I'm not good at planning, hence, I will feel severe unconvenience if I'm in Beijing. Whereas, I'm fortunately in Shanghai, and I just encountered the big problem of finding someone to fix or change my light or just trying to do it myself instread of having no electricity to use. |
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Resume from Long Pause of Blogging What a clever way to re-wind one's life. Maybe from now on I will pretend to myself that when I finally get around to doing some project on which I've been procrastinating I actually *did* get it done a few days ago as planned. Of course then I will need to do twice as many things on the day I backtrack, so...Hmm. Still, an interesting concept. PS: You didn't really need to tell us your secret technique of filling in the blanks, Jian Shuo. I would just have assumed that I forgot to refresh the page or something. :-) |
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Resume from Long Pause of Blogging HOHO! So glad that you are back. |
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Using Contact Lenses OMG, im sooo frustrated, i got my contact lenses yesterday and it did take me awhile to get them in and out but i am a little squeamish ao i was prepared for the worst. i was soo surpised that i actually got them in and out and they felt so good in! BUT when i got home i had another go and today for like 2 hours and i still cant get them in my eyes! it seem no matter how firm i hold my eyelashes out of the way they still shut when i get close to my eye! i feel like such an idiot, i want t be able to use them so much, should i go bk to the opticians and get them to help me again or is it too soon? x |
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Shanghai to Hangzhou by Taxi Hi I just want to go to Hangzhou, but i don't know how to go there from Pudong Airport. Many people suggest me to go to Maglev ans stop to Long Yang. And then take to CRH to Hangzho. Would you pls suggest me the better way? Thank you very much in advance. |