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4 Public Holidays in China

I think its hilarious that the real important days (other than new year) are not even holidays! eg dragon boat festival, buddhas birthday (which are all celebrated in those places where real chinese exists, ie china towns around the world/ taiwan/ hong kong). nowadays mainland china only have fake culture holidays...a week (oct 1 et al) to celebrate the death of traditional chinese culuture...disgraceful really.
Posted by Carl at 2007-12-05 21:30:52. More

3 Grocery Cost in Shanghai, 2007

I have een offred a job in Shanghai for 17 000RMB/month (before tax). Will that give me a comfortable life. i pay for my own accomodation and bills. And how much is 1bedroom apartments generally please.
Posted by Carl at 2007-10-25 20:35:56. More

2 About Jian Shuo Wang

Hi Jian Shuo,

I am a undergraduate college student in the US of Chinese descent, and I accidently stumbled upon your blog. Very interesting reading, especially those posts about the housing market in Shanghai these days!

I Hope to read more good posts =)
Posted by Carl at 2005-05-04 08:52:40. More

1 DB_File Error When Installing MovableType

I have tried to install several Perl moduels on my machine (it runs Win98). I'm using Activeperl, v5.6.0 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread, and I have downloaded several modules from ActiveState.

I have tried to install these packages using 'PPM install' and by hand. Each time the install succeeds, but when I run a perl program to test the install, I get a message that a library file is not available. I thought that the problem might be with the particular madule I was trying to install so I tried it with a couple of others and got similar messages.

One of the modules I am trying to install is DB_File. After installing, when I run a test program I get the following message:

Can't load 'C:/Perl/lib/auto/DB_File/DB_File.dll' for module DB_File


The files DB_File.dll, DB_File.lib, DB_File.bs, and DB_File.exp all exist in the given directory.

Has anyone run across a problem like this before and how did you fix it?
Posted by Carl at 2004-03-18 04:38:06. More