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Your Opinion about French Revolution I'm very disappointed to see so many Chinese trying to dig up something dirty from the French history in the last 1-2 weeks. I am NOT saying you are such a case. But it did make an impression to me, slogans like "Jeanne d'Arc is a filthy whore" or "Napoléon is a pervert" which have been in the Chinese cyber-space or even on the streets. And now you dig around French history too. I can't understand this hatred towards the French. Yes, they had several protests against the Chinese policy. Yes, they had a security breach which lead to a big embarrassment. This made the French more despised than the Japanese who have robbed, murdered and raped the Chinese so many times. Does that make any sense? At least to me - no. Sarkozi made an official apology to China. The president of the French olympic committee went to China and officially apologised to Jin Jing herself. French business high-ranking managers claimed they had nothing to do with those protesters. The President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso went to China shortly afterwards to ensure the Chinese president for the umptienth time that the EU regards Tibet as a part of China and that they would not support any change of the current boundaries. And yet, the Chinese public opinion was not changed and little was done to soften the tone. It became a matter of pride and patriotism in China to resent the nasty French that "want to see China divided". It seems to me that some Chinese just need to hate someone for the sake of it. I was in France last summer; there're quite a lot of Chinese in Paris. They seemed pretty happy. Of course I haven't spoken to a hundred people, I'm just talking about those who I met. They faced no racial prejudice, at least not more than in the rest of Europe. In many parts of France Chinese language is taught in schools and well-respected. (Well, if you ask my opinion about it, French don't speak good Chinese, but it's another story...) And, as a whole, there's much interest about the culture of China, the medicine and the people. However all that simply didn't matter. Most French people don't even have any idea of how much their "rating" has fallen in China. Simply because they feel as if they haven't done anything wrong. Yes, there was an accident and they apologised. So, why bring the old story again? I'm sorry, maybe I was off-topic... I hope you don't boycott Bulgarian products because of it (I just made you look at the map didn't I?) |
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Beijing 2008 Olympic Mascots My school is having an olmpic quiz and if I answer the question correctly, I wuld gat a prize. Could you Please help me? My question is: What am I? I am one of the athletics events. My event is very long. I begin in one place and finish at the olympic stadium on the last day of the games. If you find an answer for my question, plase e-mail me at tlc.isabella@gmail.com. Thank You! |
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Fake Market in Shanghai? It's kind of funny that the author of this site even admits that he/she was unable to differentiate the difference between the "fake" products and the "real" products. The truth is that the only difference is a licensing agreement. The so called "fake" items are oftentimes better quality than the store bought items. They are the same material and the workmanship is just as good. Also, if you are buying clothing, then you will notice that the unlicensed products have not been handled by store employees or tried on by customers. They usually come mint condition in the bag. Finally, the so called "fake" products are about 80% lower than the prices of the same thing in the malls. Yes! It is the same thing. I spoke to a represented of Ralph Lauren once and they admitted to me that the "knock-offs" were the same thing, however, their customers would not buy if the price was that low. There you have it! It is all psychological. Let's face it...there is only so much value that you can add to a cotton shirt or leather purse before the price becomes ridiculous. If you are buying the "real" products in the mall then you are getting ripped off. |
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Friends Started to Boycott French Products Chinese are consistently getting this wrong, perhaps because the media in China is completely controlled on political issues and lies to its citizens day in and day out. But what Chinese are getting wrong is that the protests in France and other advanced countries were not anti-Chinese - they were against specific policies of the Beijing Government. Chinese need to take a look at why advanced countries (the people of) are so upset with China. You are right - boycotts just do turn people into anti-French or anti-China zealots when the boycotts target a whole people. |
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Yifan is 3 Months Old Yifan is so cute and I had to come back to see him. Blessing to him. |
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SJTU Campus Starts to Charge for Parking u work in jiaotong? i'll be studying chinese there next term...been to jiaotong once & liked it already. anyway in my country they charge students for parking but not 7 RMB though. |
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Avoid Maglev for Hongqiao to Pudong Transition :-) You are both right - to give people the directions is one of the reason I started this blog. |
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Meeting Place: Starbucks at Jinyan Road, Pudong @Joyce, my meeting place in Raffles Area is Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf - better than Starbucks with less people AND internet access. |
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Introduce Yourself @all, thanks all for your self introduction. It helps other readers to know who are reading and commenting on this blog - and give people (including me) some idea about the distribution of reader across the world - I have more diversed readership than I thought. |
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Avoid Maglev for Hongqiao to Pudong Transition @DKWan, bingo! Thanks for the update. |
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Meeting Place: Starbucks at Jinyan Road, Pudong My regular meeting place is at Starbuck - Raffles City.. so this time I am going to try this Lemon Lamington today. |
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Introduce Yourself Hello. I'm Daniel, from Fremont, CA (near San Jose). I don't comment much but I subscribed to your blog months ago when I was visiting Shanghai. I now live and work in Shanghai and continue to enjoy your posts. |
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Avoid Maglev for Hongqiao to Pudong Transition Just to add to the info, the Airport Bus #1 is 30 RMB per person and takes about 45 min to an hour. |
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Meeting Place: Starbucks at Jinyan Road, Pudong Yes. I think i tis Lemon Lamington - I remember I saw the name like this on the badge. But, what is a Laminton? |
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Luoyang Telephone Number Upgraded I have an invention that just might be the answer to the high gas prices. But i need help, I have gotten an average of 100 mpg on several differant fuel injected vehicles. I am in the pantant pending stage at this time,Awaiting approval from the patant examiner which I understand should be at any time. After that I will be in need of support to obtain funding to get protection overseas. My plan is to mass produce the invention here in my home town and put at least 1000 people to work at the start, and will never sell out to any oil company. I have spent everything I can borrow beg or steal even my retirement on this project and I cant quit now, I just need help in getting this invention off the ground, I would really like for Mr. Warren Buffet to take a look at this and call me at 870-275-0314 .I have all the information available for him. This device will be installed on the vehicles we have already bought and paid for, that we drive every day and has been tested by EPA approved test equipment and with no emissions. If anyone would like you can check a news story at kait8.com that aired some time back on our local tv station, I think you will find it quite interesting. Thank You very much, Mike Haynes. |
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Error in Western Media Report about Tibet @LR: So I guess Singaporeans are not allowed to do disgusting things like speaking their minds. Interesting... neutralised - made neutral in some respect; deprived of distinctive characteristics neutral - possessing no distinctive quality or characteristics Thank god you are neutralised Singaporean. |
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Meeting Place: Starbucks at Jinyan Road, Pudong Haha - @dezza - it does too - reminds me of the lamington drives we used to have in school!!! |
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Meeting Place: Starbucks at Jinyan Road, Pudong that looks like a lemon lamington from australia. |
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Meeting Place: Starbucks at Jinyan Road, Pudong that looks like a lemon lamington. |
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Error in Western Media Report about Tibet Why the personal attack on Joyce? - although there is some opinion in her post, most of it is hard historical fact. Which part is offensive? |
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Error in Western Media Report about Tibet LR I don't understand why you are getting so personal?? Everyone has the rights to give his/her view. I am a typical Singaporean. Before I came to China, I knew little about Tibet until I had met a Tibetian student during my trip to Gansu-Dunhuang last year. He told me about the life of his ancestors, the current life of the Tibetians and his family. So I am just sharing with all of you about what I have known that's all. |
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Rent an Apartment in Shanghai The apartment is locating at the center of Shanghai, just 5 minutes far away from metroline3,4’s zhong tan road stop by walking, with numerous bus lines to main central business territory. There are gym, indoor-swimming pool, outdoor swimming pool, basketball playground, tennis playground, 4 large grassland, gardens, pond, public conveniences in this compound. and suzhou creek is curved in front of the buildings. The apartment is newly, modern, luxury decorated—the famous interior designer designed this apartment. It has large balcony, fall to ground windows, the building is 24h safe-guard-secured, full-furnitured with bed, lamp, large closet, chair, sofa, desk, table, air condition, refrigeratory, washing machine, water heater, TV-set, drinking water heater. Maid will clean the apartment every week. Wireless Internet will be provided free of charge. The landlord is very kind and easy-going, if you are interested, please feel free to call me at 021-62981138 or email me at rentapt@163.com for more information or paying a visit. |
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Error in Western Media Report about Tibet Joyce..i am disgusted to know u are Singaporean...were you neutralised as Singaporean but were from China? U speak like a u are from Communist China |
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Avoid Maglev for Hongqiao to Pudong Transition @皮影戏 totally agreed. that's a funny scene actually. @JianShuo in fact the fast way is to fly, seriously, the ticket is about 50RMB and the flight takes probably 15 minutes. the only problem is there are not many flights between these two airports. anyway, you can try your luck. |
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Introduce Yourself Wow, a lot of first time commenters...So I guess I should reply here. Yiding. Male. 31 this year. Consider myself as Buddhist. Local Shanghainese and still living in Shanghai. Software related. Following this blog for several years, firefox first and then switch to google reader. |
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Avoid Maglev for Hongqiao to Pudong Transition hehe, you know, many shanghailanders have the habit of telling the people who are not very clear how to get to the destinations. And this situations are pretty common to be seen in the bus. |
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Stumble Upon Jack, Samson, and Terry Interesting :-) These young guys all have English name. When I looked at the title, I almost got the impression that JianShuo was meeting some Anglo Saxans or Brits. I have to admire the American cultural influence. |
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GPRS Package from China Mobile i just called 10086 ... they say cheapest CMWAP package is 40 RMB/month with 300M ... isn't there any information on the internet available ?? |
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Introduce Yourself I'm Alfonso. A Spaniard from Spain. Living in Madrid. I'm Software engineer. Find your blog fascinating. Like your photos a lot. Specially about live, cities and new constructions in China. |
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Introduce Yourself Hi =) I'm Jovine from Singapore, budding software engineer with a taste for Java. Thanks for the fun and insightful stuff you've brought us! Wishing ur family esp Yifan well! |
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Introduce Yourself Hello Jianshuo, My name is Yin and I believe I'm the same age as you. I went to sjtu as well and graduated in 2000. Now I live in florida and working as an actuary. I am a Shanghaiese and never leaved shanghai before I came to States. I've been reading your blog for years but rarely comment. At first, I read your blog because I was homesick. Now I found that your blog is interesting and useful because someday, I may be come back. you just never know.. |
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7 Tips to Travel to China This Quarter Hi there! I intend to go to China in Sep to take Chinese language lessons. However, many sources have told me that students who are already in China will have no chance to extend their visa before mid-October. If student visas can't even be extended, will I have any chance to be granted one at all? Or should I opt for a tourist visa? For me it wouldn't make that much of a difference. I'm just trying to figure out the best way to secure a visa for Sep 08. Has anyone of you applied for a student visa recently? |
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Introduce Yourself By the way, thanks for a lot of thoughtful readers' comments too! It is discussions exemplified in spaces like this that give me a profound hope for China, the world, and our common humanity. |
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Introduce Yourself Hi everybody. I am Ji Haidong, a transplanted Chinese in Chicago area for more than a decade now. Pure rural Shandong stock, grown up in the 70s. Undergrad in southern China for 4 years, slacker in Beijing for less than a year. Came to the US in 1995 and stayed. Currently self-employed doing database consulting and training in the US. Would love to work on projects in my beloved homeland, and in fact all over the world. I made a few comments in the past, had a hiatus, and came back for great discussions during the whole Olympic discussion. For the most part, I am a silent observer, I learned a lot from different people's perspectives. So thanks Jian Shuo for such a wonderful platform and your great attitude! |
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Introduce Yourself Hi Jianshuo, My name is Susan and I live in Pudong Shanghai. I work as a technical writer for National Instruments. I love reading you blog! Susan |
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7 Tips to Travel to China This Quarter hi, i speak cantonese not mandarin. i would like info about the new bullet or high speed train from beijing to shanghai. how do i purchase tickets and can i purchase them before i leave usa? i tried to find info on the trin in the website. how long does it take to get to shanghai on a bullet train. |
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Introduce Yourself Hi, Jianshuo, hi, all, I live in Düsseldorf, Germany; 65 Years old (Ma), write myself a weblog (and a ch'an- phorum). I read this blog since two years and attached it on my blogroll. My own blog is a melange from politics, medicine, lyrik, prosa, cartoons and musik. My interests are far- reaching, also my blog. The blog is in german, but if anyone wants to leave a comment in english, thats not a problem. The blogs name "Buettchenbunt" is an synonym for this. Times ago my profession was psychoanalist and, at time, journalist. Now I'm pensioner, because I'm handicapped. I love dogs, at time, because my handicap i've only a loan- dog. Thank you, Jianshuo, for your very interesting and instructive weblog and all the hours you spend on it. |
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Salary in Shanghai - Part II Hi Ammar, I am still in India. The company has postponed its plan to open new facility in China, as their India operations are expanding. I still want to go to Shnaghai but not getting suitable opening. How are you doing? surender |
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Introduce Yourself hi ,jianshuo. my name is hezhanchi.i'm from shenzhen.i'm a new reader of your blog for about 3 months. when and how did i find your blog?m...i didn't remember. your blog is really very intresting and i read it everyday. |
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Introduce Yourself i am chinese native. came from hangzhou silk-town zhejiang i read your blog everyday for the reason learing english. and i admire you for your free english thought , no matter how hard i try, my head still work slow and awkward in english operation-system. |
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Introduce Yourself I guess I'll be a first time commenter coming out of hiding. I'm Ben, I'm a university student studying biology and chemistry near Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. I found this blog while searching for Shanghai hotels, and found it very interesting, especially since I'm in a class on Chinese Politics this term. |
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Introduce Yourself Hello I am Ally from Perth, Australia. I was born in Hong Kong but came here when i was a child. I am studying Nutrition and Food science at univesity and i will be coming to Shanghai in October for the 14th World Congress of Food Science and Technology. I'm studying Mandarin at uni as well because i hope one day i will get the chance to work in China! |
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Introduce Yourself Hi, I am entirely a Shanghaiese. Born in Shanghai, growth in Shanghai. I heard about your blog in Culturematters on ICS channel. I am 27, male, an oridinary clerk in Expeditors International, a logistics company which headquarter in Seattle, US. |
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Introduce Yourself We've met in person, but this is a wonderful opportunity to get to know your other readers! I'm the proud mom of two wonderful young men about your age, happily married for 40 years this coming month, living in Cupertino CA, and hoping someday to have a chance to visit Shanghai. Until we have grandchildren of our own, it gives me great pleasure to think of myself as Yifan's unofficial "Honorary American Grandmother" :-) |
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I Want to Go to India The girl he is getting married to is from new delhi, india. |
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Slow Internet Connection in Early May I am located in the US and when I try to connect to sites I normally use in China I have slow to no connection. Any ideas what may be going on atm... this isnt exactly normal? |
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I Want to Go to India My sister son is get married to a gril from India what is the custom for the groom or the bride parents. |
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"Love China" Blooms on MSN Messenger For those that Love China... Take a look at www.YouLoveChina.com :D |
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Introduce Yourself Conall, 30's, male from Dublin, Ireland. Work in sales and marketing. I've subscribed to your blog for years. Odd that my first comment was a few weeks ago. I like this direct call to say hello. Thanks. |
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Introduce Yourself Hi, I'm Nic, from Singapore, beleaguered student of a tender 18 years, and hopeless Internet addict. I have a general interest in different cultures, especially the constantly evolving one of modern China. Tragically, I am Chinese by race, but my fluency in Mandarin has atrophied to such a large extent over the past few years due to disuse that verbal communication is now somewhat frustrating - thankfully my reading skills are a measure better. I love your blog for the reasoned and honest perspective it brings, and also the awesome photos. |
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Introduce Yourself Sorry. Double post, didn't introduce myself. I'm Bren from Colorado for the time being. I'm looking forward towards experiencing a new place. Young and loving life. |
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Introduce Yourself I commented a few days ago. I've been reading your blog for a few months now. I'll be moving to Shanghai soon and I find your blog insightful. |
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Introduce Yourself Hi Jian Shuo, Wow, someone in Shanghai knows me! Looks like you've got a great company and team there. Maybe one day I'll get to shanghai and we can meet! Jim Boykin |
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Introduce Yourself Hi, I am David from Singapore. I run Shanghai's hottest and coolest event site. www.shanghaiwhatsup.com |
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Introduce Yourself Wonton, Hard boiled commander of an successful sales legion, prone to sudden pursuits of stupid ventures. Loyal servant to China, Father to an unborn son, husband to a stubborn wife. And I will have my puppy... in this life ...or the next... |
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Introduce Yourself Hi Jian Shuo Long time have not commented on your blog, recently just one on Tibet's issues. I am a Singaporean living and working in Shanghai, General Manager of an investment company. |
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Shanghai Hotel Guide I will be visiting Shanghai for the first time as a solo traveler. I am a female in my 30's and am looking for a safe hotel, in a great location. I will not be spending much time in the hotel so I do not need anything ultra fancy. I will be traveling during the time of the Olympics and want to book my hotel room relatively soon, as I am sure they fill up quickly. Do you have any recommendations and possibly a website to book on. Thank you for your time. |
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Introduce Yourself I never commented on your blog before, I took this opportunity that you kindly offered :) I'm Fabrizio from Italy, CFO Assistant that would like to visit his company facility in Ningbo (Zhejiang) more often... |
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Introduce Yourself @jian shuo - I think you already know much about me over the years... in summary, Peter Breitkreutz - Australian living and working in Singapore - married to ex-colleague from Shanghai, Sammi (used to work together in Kodak). 'Mixed' baby Jaime Zheng Jiayang, born in Singapore on 27th August, 2007. Global Strategic Sourcing Manager for Marketing, Motorola. www.aussiepete.com |
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Introduce Yourself how about this form? :) [mac] male; 20s; student; Central China [Self-sum-up] Until GFW resolves, i'm not sure i really would like to believe you, seriously and no offence. Yes, this is BIG. And NO, you don't know how it feels. Thank you. (Net Nanny, beware here, watch me please.) And YES, right now i can only 'IDENTIFY' this problem, i can't 'SOLVE' any of them. It's funny because, you see, the way i see it, THIS WAY OF THINKING is acutally THE PROBLEM here. The way i see it, [30 years of 改革开放] VS [? years of GFW], GFW winned and is still winning. Don't bother convince me otherwise. I don't belive you. For only GOD knows if you are HARMONIZED or SELF-HARMONIZED or not, including YOU, MR. WANG JIAN SHUO. NO OFFENCE. Thank you. p.S I missed the torch reaching top live broadcasting, damn!!! |
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Beijing Airport Terminal 3 (T3) Opens This is just the most amazing gateway into the fastest growing nations in the world. Really looking forward to going through this brand new wonder in August on my way to the Games. They say that will be the games to end all games. I'll be there to see it. |
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Olympic Torch in China @ DingLi, For the government money is not a problem |
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Chinese Stock Market is Crazy @ Vera: Did you write an article about stock markets in general or about the Chinese stock market in particular? If the latter is the case, may I ask what your findings are? I'm still struggling to find some sort of scientific approach to understand and explain the Chinese stock market... |
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Reading/Writing Chinese in Windows XP I have done all the steps, installed prc selected it and i can type fine everywhere exept in an online game called dekaron. its a chinese game so i dont understand what i am doing wrong. when ever i type there it gives me question marks eg. ???? ?? ???. but i can type fine here。 糊塗 我學習漢語 我會說一點 |
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Olympic Torch in China What a complicated route!!! Hope everythings is ok! |
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Photos of Shanghai in May, 2008 - Part II I have a condominium at Orient Manhattan and it is stone's throw from your office, it used to be a very good residential compound six years ago when it first completed, but now parked vehicles occupied the entire drive way, motor bikes are parked up-stair in front of the door way, dog excrement are littering the pathway and the building starts to show its age. Yes, I agree with you, it looks ugly now! |
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Your Opinion about French Revolution I totally agree with Damien about french revolution and may 68. French revolution is a classes revolution where poor people are opposed to rich. But may 68 is considered as an intellectual revolution. It's a revolution where french people share some mind liberty aspirations. The moto was something like "it 's not allowed to prohibit". These events are some kind of what happened during tian anmen square protests in 1989. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989 |
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GPRS Package from China Mobile i have a china mobile "prince a960 but i want a gprs setting that i not getting plesce send me setting on jams_bownd@yahoo.co.in |
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Your Opinion about French Revolution I'm not going to comment about the possible similarities between the French revolution and the Chinese cultural revolution. This topic is way too complex for me and I don't know much about the Chinese one anyway. In fact I just wanted to say how admirable I think it is to react the way you do ("seek first to understand before seek to be understood")... Clearly you're a wise person Jian Shuo Wang. Now since I'm here I'd like to share something I'd like more people to remember of; In 2004, special celebrations of the Chinese New Year occured in Paris... During 5 days, even the Eiffel tower was illuminated in red to remind everybody of China! See this page about most of the special illuminations of the tower : http://www.tour-eiffel.fr/teiffel/fr/documentation/dossiers/page/illuminations.html This one is less "official" but shows bigger pics: http://www.broguiere.com/rouge/ A last one: http://photoenligne.free.fr/ParisVII/TourEiffel/N4486.jpg It reminds me of the time I was studying and dreaming of coming in China someday... I thought I could enjoy this friendly relationship between our countries, and 4 years later, this is still what I was thinking as I was flying to Shanghai, so excited about being about to begin my first real job in China. A few months after, I feel very uncomfortable when people ask me where I'm from and I don't even know if our young company will survive these "troubles"... Sad. |
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Pictures of my Newly-Born Baby So lovely baby. His expression is so rich. A precious little things. Thanks for sharing. |
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Error in Western Media Report about Tibet @rick - my ancestors are from Australia. - the aborigines were some of the first human beings to inhabit this planet... I'm confused - where did u want me to go to? I'm living in Singapore now - are u saying I should go back home to Australia? |
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7 Tips to Travel to China This Quarter Good Advice, One day I can use it |
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Slow Internet Connection in Early May @AussiePB : It's pretty easy to get around the GFW. Just stay outside China ! har har! |
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One Child Policy in China does anyone know any websites i could get more detailed info on china's one-child policy? and has this policy been succesful in china? |
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More Accidents in 2008 Add one more terror: Crashing stock market. |
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Error in Western Media Report about Tibet The reality is cold. If all Austrilian people go back to where their ancestors from, all Canadian people go back to where their ancestors from, all south American European people go back to where their ancestors from, then I will agree to let Tibetan seperate from China. You European people did bad things before. We Chinese just want to do the same thing for a while. Then we can be equally bad. Then we can forgive you guys. Only bad people can forgive other people. Read the Bible. Jesus told us about that. He said we are all sinful, so we should forgive. |
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Photos of Shanghai in May, 2008 I actually find the trees more impressive than the power lines :-) To me, it makes a big difference when a city has managed to save room for some trees. It looks like there are a lot in the neighborhood near your office. |
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Photos of Shanghai in May, 2008 I find the high voltage lines impressive. |
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Photos of Shanghai in May, 2008 Nice pictures. I'll be moving to Shanghai on June 12th. Looking forward to it. |
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Your Opinion about French Revolution If you want to have a glimpse of the French spirit before the Revolution, watch "Ridicule", a quite enjoyable French movie, which depicts some of our (good and also bad) features. But if you want to understand this country's present state, May 68 is more important than the Revolution, for its effects on our society are more important . Then you will discover many of the Leaders of May 68 were inspired by Mao! Therefore it is easier to understand why some French are more uncomfortable with present China than other Europeans: the Cultural Revolution was then seen as a revolutionnary model, but 40 years later we know the truth about maoism. It is quite stunning to see that some of the most vehement China contempters in France were former maoists. In the sixties they had a idealized image of China. Now it is just the opposite, as if they tried to make up for their past blindness. Still, despite what is said on the internet, France is the European country where China has most assets, with the largest Chinese community (450,000 or 500, 000) and Chinese is the fastest expanding foreign language (with several Confucius Institutes being set up), and it has a very strong cultural impact. |
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Friends Started to Boycott French Products Paris 2008 The French were about to start organizing the Olympics they had longed for more than 80 years. But when the sacred Torch went to Beijing, the Free Corsica movement, which had been popular in China for quite a long time, started to erupt and violent protesters, despite a massive security display , managed to take possession of the torch and used it to burn in Tiananmen Square a giant French flag covered with a swastika, while French athletes were attacked with smelly corsican cheese which caused them to stay in hospital for a few weeks. Horrified, the French governement reacted promptly and threatened to stop all Chinese imports, starting with the underwear. The conflict escalated when the Chinese stopped all exports of female underwear to France. However, the loss for consumers in France was compensated for with a surge in the tourism industry, as a new fashion, "I wear no underwear and I'm proud", spread in the whole country and caused a large part of the world to sympathetize with the female part of the french population. In China, the lack of baguettes, croissants and Château-margaux caused some riots and the price of these goods on the black market soared. At the eve of the opening ceremony, in Paris, the tension reached its climax when rumors of a boycott by the Chinese President were not disclaimed by his spokesman. Angry Frenchmen demonstrated in front on some Chinese restaurants and even burnt some teddy bears (99% of them being made in China), but it caused them to get intoxicated. The Made in China label was booed in France, while in China, I love Corsica teeshirts and pictures of Pascal Paoli flourished. Jacky Chan and Jet Li even played in a movie (shot in corsican)villifying French exactions in Corte, and Zhang Ziyi declared her love for chestnuts, brocciu and figatellu, while dressing in a Corsica Friendly designed Damas Turchino dress for the Oscars! Then the Chinese President sent a apology letter, said he got Corsica for Croatia, and of course supported the unity of France. What could be the cause for such a stunning turn of events? Some said the love for Champagne, which had been for long anavailable because of the boycott, had been to strong, but the real cause was that, China was being submitted with millions of applications from Corsican immigrants, who threatened to weaken the already overpopulated country,and also that the "I wear no underwear" fashion, whose diplay was to be celebrated during the opening ceremony, was after quite a pleasant thing. |
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Photos of Shanghai in May, 2008 @shanghai-ren... u are a very strange person. |
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Photos of Shanghai in May, 2008 Shanghai-ren, you seem to have a lot of stored up anger and strong opinions. Have you ever thought about writing your own blog? Then we can find out what you are in favor of, and your proposals of solutions for the world. |
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More Accidents in 2008 The word insecurity would be better. Terror will be understood as terrorism. |
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Photos of Shanghai in May, 2008 The blogger's flip-flop continues abated. One day he dumped BBC and another day he kissed its butt; One day he was against anything French and another day he claimed no longer anti-France; One day he lamented 2008 as a year of terror and another day he cheered Shanghai's prosperity; Early signs of manic-depression? Maybe that is really the impression of so-called emerging dragon power on the rest of the world. |
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More Accidents in 2008 Terror does not mean terrorism. It means the lack of security - no matter it is because of natural disaster, or operation mistake. When we see too many bad things, especially to something very close to you, you feel that bad things may happen to you at any time. That is the sense of insecure. |
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More Accidents in 2008 I don't understand why you describe events such as foot and mouth disease and train crashes as "terror". Yes they may be terrible, but these things happen all the time. China has disease outbreaks like SARS, bird flu, floods and some bad accidents everv year. If anything, 2008 will be safer because of all the security. |
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Photos of Carrefour after Boycott sorry, my problem I guess, it's back on now! |
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More Accidents in 2008 These are really bad in China. People can not know or believe what happened truly. Don't we think the media does work for government? So many key problems make people who live in other countries believe that Chinese lead a very poor life. Traffic accidents are seen every day, but people DO not obey traffic rule. You will be not surprised to see traffic jams everywhere in Shanghai or Beijing or even small cities in China. There are many evident reasons to cause the daily traffic jams, like narrow roads, or road bottle-necks. Why do the government make a good and long-term plan when road construction? Why do not the people obey the traffic rules? Why do so many people have no safe understanding? Today I heard a shuttle bus near our apartment hit a man and the man was dead on the ground. TOO BAD, TOO TOO BAD. How does the life go on???? |
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Photos of Carrefour after Boycott @solopolo, what happened? I didn't notice anything... |
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Photos of Carrefour after Boycott what happened to your blog of yesterday? |
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Is English Skill That Important i wanna search on the impotance of english in Pakistan .But i find all over the world what i do |
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Ideas on Chiba in Japan? Hi everyone, I am planning to go to Chiba by the end of august 2008 to attend a conference of physical therapists. Can you suggest a place where I can stay near the Makuhari Kesse which is cheap preferably lower than 50 US dollars per night? |
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Your Opinion about French Revolution I'm not going to comment about the possible similarities between the French revolution and the Chinese cultural revolution. This topic is way too complex for me and I don't know much about the Chinese one anyway. In fact I just wanted to say how admirable I think it is to react the way you do ("seek first to understand before seek to be understood")... Clearly you're a wise person Jian Shuo Wang. And since I'm here I'd like to share something I'd like more people to remember of; In 2004, special celebrations of the Chinese New Year occured in Paris... During 5 days, even the Eiffel tower was illuminated in red to remind everybody of China! See this page about most of the special illuminations of the tower : http://www.tour-eiffel.fr/teiffel/fr/documentation/dossiers/page/illuminations.html This one is less "official" but shows bigger pics: http://www.broguiere.com/rouge/ A last one: http://photoenligne.free.fr/ParisVII/TourEiffel/N4486.jpg It reminds me of the time I was studying and dreaming of coming in China someday... I thought I could enjoy this friendly relationship between our countries, and 4 years later, this is still what I was thinking as I was flying to Shanghai, so excited but so scared about being about to begin my first real job in China. A few months after, I feel very uncomfortable when people ask me where I'm from and I don't even know if our young company will survive these "troubles"... Sad. |
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Chinese Stock Market is Crazy i am a student and our teacher demanded us to write an article about stock market after looing this i gained a lot thank you all |
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Get India Visa in China Dear Sir/Madam, Please let us know if my chinese girlfreind want to apply for a Indian Visa for how long can she get and what is the formalities and how to obtain the Visa. We are planning to get married in India, so will require a longer period visa. Please advise me on the same, i would be grateful. Awaiting an earliest response. Thanks and Regards Joseph Fernandes |
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More Accidents in 2008 Allison, Thats exactly what I thought about when I read the post. I dont think that it is that these things never happened in the past, it is just that the news didnt report them, and the biggest change being the instant communications via the internet. I think the internet is playing a large role in getting the media to report more "bad" news. If the news doesnt say anything about the bus accident, then some Shanghai blogger is likely to have seen it and will blog about it, post pictures, etc. Then those on the BBS etc speculate that is was terrorism, etc and the speculation gets out of hand quickly. In the past this didnt really exist, and you might have just had some people in the neighborhood gossiping about it without the information spreading far. But I dont think Chinese media can yet come close to the US in the are of fear mongering. By the way, I thought Bowling for Columbine was an excellent movie and really helps to explain alot of things about America |
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More Accidents in 2008 Hmmm... Yes, a lot seems to be happening in China but so little if one considers that China has what ? 1/3 of the world`s population ? As for hoping to get "timely, accurate information"...I can not think of one country that is not a wee bit biased these days. At the Atlanta`s games (1996), a small bomb exploded and the "terrorist" was quickly arrested...and quietly released after the games: wasn`t him. The news in the "democratic world" are so very often biased or wrong. Never in my life, have I felt as safe as when I was in China. |
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More Accidents in 2008 I doubt these events had anything to do with terrorism, just sloppy management on the side of the government bodies (the claim of terrorism might be a way for the government bodies to try and cover their mistakes). I do agree with you about fear. I think better monitoring and management is needed on the part of the government ministries. I know that Chinese people don't trust these organizations and that's why they're so fearful. J. |