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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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Grace Wang Called a Traitor "靈 台 無 計 逃 神 矢 ， 風 雨 如 磐 瘖 故 園 。 寄 意 寒 星 荃 不 察 ， 我 以 我 血 薦 軒 轅" Quoted from local daily. |
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Death and Religion in Tibet JS, I noticed that most of the readers' comment in the last two weeks are not attached to the daily blog but locked into the recent comment column, in the last two days the comment column also become inaccessible. I don't know whether it is a problem from my side, nevertheless, can you please rectify the situation from your side. |
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Four Types of Consciousness Angry Youth = 義和團 Conscious Patriots = 袁世凱 God Like Analyst = 李鴻章 Careful Balancer = 慈禧太后 Please correct me if I am wrong, but don't call me a traitor! Thanks. |
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Street Scenes of Nayang - Part II JS, it is the "inflatable rubber dam" not robbery jam. |
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Standing Cross Different Lines @Claudia Frais, thank you for your endorsment of my POV. It is too late now, the campaign staged by oversea Tibetan in the last four weeks inadvertently united almost all Chinese both domestic and oversea, friend and foe toward Beijing government. The show of unity has put many foreign media on the 'defence' mode and the rally for 'free tibet' is diminishing. As far I can remember this is first time China can display such unity among her people. 'United we stand, departed we fall'. Perhaps China should thank Dalai Lama of his effort! |
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Standing Cross Different Lines Can we put aside the Summer Game and the torch relay and look into the objective of which the oversea Tibetan wish to achieve. I see the Tibetan government in exile and his 100,000 followers living in India and Nepal do have a strong will to return to Tibet, since Tibet is a land-locked areas and lack of arable land, the economy today is depended largely on tourism from China and oversea, so an independent Tibet can devastate the people of the areas. Dalai Lama fully understand the situation and is not seeking independent Tibet but rather "one country, two systems". On the other hand China in the last ten years has marginalized the Tibetan by bringing in Chinese immigrate to the areas and diluted the distinctive culture and religious of Tibet. Does anybody see China and Dalai Lama can compromise on this issue without external supports. |
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Friends Started to Boycott French Products Don't forget France deployed over 3000 police to protect the torch relay in Paris, without the police present, the torch already ended up at the bottom of the river Seine. |
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Friends Started to Boycott French Products You have to understand who is the instigator behind this. www.tibetnetwork.org/torch_paris |
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Disturbed Lunch My sympathy you had a distrubed lunch. I am a businessman and I always believe in "give them what they want and they'll come back for more", if the restaurant management can exercise a little skill of persuaion, I am sure the distrubation shall never extented to the rest of the guest. Even the coupon was a counterfeit, the restaurant can regard it as an advertisment and I sure there are many more coupon in circulation which will never be redeemed. This is a break down of human relationship and people are having hard time to understand or trust each others. There is a saying "when there is smoke, there is fire!", now smoke is everywhere, are someone try to put out the fire? Does anybody know how to use wisdom to solve the problem? |
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Error in Western Media Report about Tibet At the happenings of the riot at Lhasa, China escorted away all the foreign journalists from the areas. I remembered one BBC reporter said when he reached Hong Kong " China is handling her domestic affair and does not wish the world to see". The notion of that statement to the world is simple and clear "China is suppressing the native uprising with heavy hand". Owing to the news black out except CCTV, the journlists are writing stories based on the sources feeded by oversea Tibetan organizations with improvised footages. If China open Tibet to all foreign journlists at that time and see the uprising first handed, do you think they'll write the stories otherwise? |
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Why I Didn't Cover About Tibet Why western countries sided with Tibetan at this conflict in Lhasa? I don't know! Does Dalai Lama has the magic touch? I don't know either! When the conflict happened in Lhasa, I was in Hawaii reading the news. Looking at the history of Hawaii, it was the US who annexed the island kingdom and overthrow the monarchy about hundred years ago. No reports of the local Polynesian stood up to fight the US army to revive the monarchy. Did US government gave special treatments to the islanders such as one country, two systems or waive the federal tex? No such thing! Did US government outlaw the former ruler of the Kingdom? I saw fresh flowers placed at the statue of the former King every day! Are the islanders are proud American? I can't see otherwise! I was told many islanders join the US military and there is a four stars Hawaiian Army General. President Clinton even apologized to the islanders for the overthrow of the Hawaii Kingdom. Why Tibet and Hawaii have two different outcomes, I shall let the ruling party to answer this question! |
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Can you Understand Dish Names in China? This is so funny. I translated some menus, including the most restigious restaurant Beijing duck restaurant " quan ju de" and some other menus. This is just hilerioius. So, i know some skills and terms about how to translate chinese to english, as i have been a chef for ten years. Very interesting to read your blog. |
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"I Will Follow All the Rules!" To wish you and your family every happiness at this festive season. |
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Current University Students are Different Have anybody noticed that the world and regional ranking of SJTU and other Chinese Universities are surging due to "modernization" according to the Chinese Official Delegation who visited my university two months in Canada. http://ed.sjtu.cn/rank/2007ARWU2007TOP500LIST.htm I know JianShuo does not pay too much attention to the ranking, but someone in the Education Ministry thinks otherwise and will persist in present course. |
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The Age of Change, in Reality, and in Mind 且听枫吟, perhaps JianShuo should say annual salary of RMB500,000 or more is not unheard of in Shanghai, I do know there are lots of people in Shanghai have income more than that, but may not from salary, it also includes bonus, commission, profit, capital gain etc. otherwise how do you expect people can afford to buy luxary condominiums and cars with only miniscule income? Take China Mobile for example, its reveune reached US 33 billion, what remuneration do you think is appropriate for her CEO and his management team? This is not the era of People's Commune! |
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Aniseed Vietnamese French Cuisine It is PHO, I love it, do you have a picture to show us? |
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Gas Station Explosion Near my Home It is apparent there was no safety official to supervise the crew prior to the accident, it is sad! The unprecedented economic development of China which shocked the world is accomplished at the life of innocent workers (6,000 deaths a year in mining accidents alone), it is really sad! |
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Movie Lust, Caution. Good! You should see the original version of the movie, in China not only the part involved the war time puppet state is removed, but also about 7 mins sex scene is missing. The China version is about 20 mins lighter than the oversea version. |
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Toughest Time for Me and Wendy "When the going gets tough, the tough get going" ............remember the song by Billy Ocean? |
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Toughest Time for Me and Wendy Hi, Jianshuo, You are a great man and think positive way all the time. You are blessed by all your blog readers. Keep going, Wish you and your family have a early seasonal greeting. Stephen |
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More Detailed Shanghai Future Metro Map From the map I can see plainly route 2 light rail is intended to be the shuttle of PVG, I think it means Maglev will be in dormant once the light rail is completed. |
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More Detailed Shanghai Future Metro Map Typo at caption. |
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0# Gas Shortage in Shanghai The surge of commodities price including crude oil in the recent months is mainly due to $US has reached 30 years low, so low it has fallen off the benchmark of countries who are pegging with $US. China is now facing cost-push inflation despite her hugh trade surplus. Is it a right time to let RMB floats? |
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Living Cost in Shanghai (2007 Edition) Last summer I took a day tour to Hangzhou and the taxi driver from Shanghai charged me RMB1,600 including road toll, can anybody tell me this is fair fare of taxi from 7AM to 9PM? |
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Seat-Belt? Oh. No. Thanks! Problem for me of wearing a seat belt while taking a taxi in Shanghai city is the driver always thinks I am distrustful of his driving skill. |
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Seat-Belt? Oh. No. Thanks! Should the plane encounter turbulence, it can easily send a passanger airborne inside the cabin if not strap to the seat. Last year, an AirCanada flight departed from PVG encountered terbulence and send six passangers and crew to hospital after emergency landing in Japan. |
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Airport Construction Fee for Connection Flight? Jian Shuo, any idea when the PVG Terminal 2 will be in operational and the arrangement of ground transportation. Thanks for your info! |
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Top Commenter of the Month (2007H1) Hello John, good question! but what is the heritage should be inherited by every Chinese, I am not trying to evade that. May be you can enlighten me on this issue. |
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Some Thoughts about War and History A grudge against Russia may be necessary, after all, she has annexed the entire outer Manchuria from China in the last hundred years which is an area three time bigger than Japan and Chinese government recently has endorsed the border treaty. |
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Fight Between Foreigners and Local I like to discuss this subject but now is not a good time to do so as the content may challenge the bottom line of your authority. |
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Fight Between Foreigners and Local Ling, I am discussing the ideology during the pre-war era of WW2, and you are referring to war years and the afteramath, are you singing the wrong tune? 3 years and 8 months? Are you referring to the war years endured by the American? |
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Fight Between Foreigners and Local Of the above fighting incident, if you take away the foreigner's factor, it is purely a clash between rich and poor, law defying vs ignorance. If someone is comparing Chinese patriotism to pre-war era of Nazism of German and Imperialism of Japan, it is totally wrong. Nazism is to revenge the injustice of Versailles Treaty and the land and German people annexed by Poland. Japanese Imperialism is to seek better livelihood for her nationals in the era of great depression. What China need is folkways to a social norm and not revisiting the past unfavourable events in history. |
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Fight Between Foreigners and Local About thirty years ago, China was opening her door to the west in needs of investments, foreigners rushed in with capital and technologies, on the side, the authority granted the foreigners in China with special immunities such as: Immune from any misdemeanour charges Don't have to queue up with local residents for anythings Entitle to enter best restaurants or hotels where local residents are forbidden from entering.......and many more benefits. At that time, foreigners - both caucasian and Chinese from Hong Kong and Taiwan walked the street of China like a Emperor. This injustice caused the Chinese resident with a attitude of either admiration or resentment towards foreigners, and today when China is strong and rich, the mentality still persists. |
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Top Commenter of the Month (2007H1) It is really fun for me to conduct dialogue with people in China to understand their thinking and behavior, afterall we do have different background and history. We have had fierce arguements on many issues, such as past history, economy, politic, welfare, transport, social norm, life style, weather, pollution, housing and even the meaning of democracy. We cannot concur on many subjects, afterall we do have different backgroung and history, my conclusion is either side are superior than the other, just different in mentality, the mentality which is required at that particular community or country. At any rate, my apology to those who were offended by my previous comments and thank JianShuo to provide me such excellent platform of dialogue. |
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Shanghai Also has Blue Sky - for One Day It was due to typhood Sepat was in proximity of Shanghai and the reversed east wind, the sea breeze from the ocean blowed the pollutant inland. |
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SJTU - No 565 in the World Ranking I am dismay of your indifference at the very institution which cultivated you to become one of the elite of the city. As a proud alumni of my university, I always return to have discussion with current students and staff of my work experience and in exchange I also gain the up-to-date business information. Indeed university is the institution of knowledge exchange. I agree your university has a long way to reach the world pinnacle, but I can see she is stepping into the right track and now dashing forward, don't you want to be the part momentum? This is call the contribution to the society. |
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SJTU - No 565 in the World Ranking SJTU today released the top 500 university ranking and she now rank at 234th position, a great leap forward in ranking as compared to last year. SJTU also the number one university in Shanghai. JS, this is something you can proud of now......... |
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One Year to Beijing Olympics Sorry, mistake in my comment. The boycott of Moscow game in 1980 was the sanction imposed by USA for the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. |
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One Year to Beijing Olympics fggfz, yes, the summer game at Berlin in 1936 was a stage for Hitler to promote Nazi ideology, if country like USA boycott the game, how does people like Jesse Owens, the African-American sprinter can receive his gold medals from the hands of Hitler? The boycott of Moscow game in 1980 was the sanction imposed by USA for the downing of KAL 007, it was purely a political move and has nothing to do with freedom. The LA game was also under boycott for the same reason. Politic and sport does not mix. |
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Shanghai Car Plates IS Investment Is there people actually hoarding up these Shanghai plate for spectulation purpose? Wonder what happens if authority announced these plate to be non-negotiable. |
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Shanghai Car Plates IS Investment So your asset is intangible and the value of the title is determined by the policy maker, this is not an investment but a direct payment to the government. |
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On the Top of 8 Meters... I think this is your Outward Bound School. Next time you engage a jump like that, never wear a short pants, make sure the life line is long enough to stay clear of the platform. The harness you use is not safe, in the event of mis-step, and a person like you is top heavy with big belly, you can easily fall through waist belt from the other side or break your spine. A Y-type harness can best protect you. Remember, you are a father now! |
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Strengthen the Control of Speech There is a dilemma here: A law abiding Chinese citizen should entitle to world news and obtain views from other end about China via satellite TV. A law abiding Chinese citizen should never steal satellite signal without paying to become a subscriber. Any comment? |
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Shanghai Hotel Guide - Part II Dennis, thank you for your info but Jin Jiang Inns and Motel 168 were fully booked, the team has left for Shanghai last week and trust they'll find the right accommodations in China. |
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Accident in Shanghai Metro This is tombstone technology! i.e. improvement is made only at the blood of the users. |
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Starbucks Finally Closed in the Forbidden City The administration and the management of the formal Imperial Palace is deporable. I was there last summer and saw thick dust inside the palace and shrub grew from the roof tiles, it is clearly a neglect for a long time. If you visit the eateries and the gift shops, it is very nicely decorated and with air-conditioning. It is necessary for the management to change the 'profit centre' attitude otherwise the main palace can be converted into a seafood restaurant and the inner courts can become a hotel. Starbuck in the forbidden City obviously is a misfit and nuisance, but it also shown the capitalization of this historic monument. |
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Olympics Impact to TV Commericals It's the gymnastic! Olympic has now became the biggest consumer goods promotion campaign in the world and we are footing the bills, about the truth Olympic spirit, it is already brushed aside. |
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Shanghai Hotel Guide - Part II My company staff is planning a trip to China this month and asked me if the accommodation and services by Home Inns in Shanghai, Nanjing and Beijing are compatible. Can anybody give us some input. |
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The Dinner - Part III - Government or Party? JS must mean "mayor"! |
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Difficulties as a Foreign Visitor Давид , "The huge reserve is held by the government, not in private hands." Now you are getting my point, how does the hugh reserve can benefit the average Chinese? not much! but when Chinese see their investments went bad, what repercussion do you think will arise in regardless of whatever amount may involved. The province where I am residing had a hugh revenue surplus from the oil boom last year, and everyone in the province including infants received Can$400 per head plus many reductions in energy cost and tax. This is how a government should tackle the surplus and reserve. By the way, US campaign at Iraq may not be a bad investment as long as US can prevail at the end, then many 'oily' returns thereafter. China in the end may pay hugh forfeit to Germany in the event the Maglev need to be scrapped. |
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Difficulties as a Foreign Visitor Давид , China' hugh trade surplus with US means American can afford to buy from China and yet Chinese consumers cannot afford the reciprocal. Should the trade surplus hurts US economy in any way, US congress will without hestitation slam the trading door shut. If you read the GDP per capita, you'll find many people in China still live under poverty line, so amount like US$1.5 billion can benefit many people for a considerable duration. Sitting on US$1.2 trillion does not reflect the true financial situation of China. The real wealth people usually know how to manage their portfolio and usually have little cash in circulation. By the way, the revenue received by Pudong Maglev cannot even offset the operating cost nor it is serving as a useful airport shultte, should I call it a white elephant? |
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Difficulties as a Foreign Visitor Давид ,Do you know what percentage of GDP can become the revenue, and what percentage of revenue can transform into expenditure. Most government expediture are fixed cost, and what percentage of expenditure can be spend items of no useful purpose? |
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Difficulties as a Foreign Visitor Давид , you compare GDP with expenditure? |
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Difficulties as a Foreign Visitor Давид , if you take the GDP of China and divided by her population, I am sure you'll find $1.5 billion is not a loose change for any bureaucrat and for any region. For the same amount, Shanghai can build the PVG ph1 by herself without seeking grant from Japan. |
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Difficulties as a Foreign Visitor The installation of Maglev at Pudong was an intention to show the advancement of Shanghai and hope such technology will and can revolutionize the transportation network of China, however, due to hefty construction cost and the new advancement of wheel technology by TGV, the Maglev is no longer a technology bears both feasible in operation and speed record. The cancellation of south extension to Hangzhou proves Maglev is not longer the future in the transportation of China. Maglev at Pudong is only a proving ground and China contributed at least US$1.5 billion and it is likely the project can be dismantled after Expo 2010 to make room for the real airport shuttle. Should the fund for Maglev be shared among the people of Shanghai, each can receive up to Rmb700, what a waste! |
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Difficulties as a Foreign Visitor Why don't you do a survey and ask all your oversea readers to itemize the things that are most difficult to endure during their visit to Shanghai. I am sure you'll surprise from the reflections of the laowais. |
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Name of the Baby - Part II Do you consider to hire a Feng Shui Master to pick a name for your son? |
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Name of the Baby - Part II Would you consider names with more masculine appeal? |
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Name of the Baby Naming a baby is a daunting task, make sure it is easy to pronounce in both Chinese and English and easy to be remembered by others, and also bears special meanings in Chinese. Finding a good name for your child is actually helping him in the future. I hope Jianshuo will not make a haste decision like the way he named his car. |
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My Baby Arrives I am surprised you have not mentioned the condition of your love once Wendy who gave birth of your lovely baby boy. |
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My Baby Arrives BTW, can you disclose the name of the new born? |
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My Baby Arrives Congratulation on your new born, do take a leave to stay with the new arrival and your love once. |
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Trip Plan Case Study - Shanghai - Hangzhou If I hire a Shanghai taxi to Hangzhou for one day tour, say from 0700 thru 2300, what is the fair fare the driver would charge? |
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Pudong Airport to Ramada Plaza Hotel Saw the news this morning with regret, the Maglev south extention has been called off, and the Shanghai Maglev will stand alone and become a showy piece. Just like the monorail in Seattle, it serve mainly the tourists. |
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Chinese Stock Market is More Crazy It is apparent the government has sunk her national reserve into the stock market and kept her economic miracle intact, should it reach the bursting point and the she is unable to sustain the market value, the blood of China will freeze. |
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Take Taxi or Buy a Car? Anybody consider to own a cycle richshaws in Shanghai? It should be very cheap to buy and low maintenance, it is also environmental friendly and a platform for exercise. Riding in it should raise the eyebrows of the others or you can hire someone to do the paddling as to ease the unemployemnt in Shanghai. On the weekend, you can put your love once behind you and have a joy ride, and you can also use the cycle lane to avoid the traffic. Is this the wonder cycle of the future? Hahahahaha |
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Street Markets in Shanghai Yee, did you ask the same to those parparazzi? According to freedom of press, people have the liberty to take any photo in the public areas and post it anywhere they like it unless the subjects in the photo for are used for commercial or defamation purpose. |
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Buying Furniture in Shanghai I don't mean glass partial at the balcony, a sun room actually is a enclosed structure attached to the building on ground level with a glass roof. Judge from your tone, such annex is not very popular in Shanghai. Thanks for your info. |
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Buying Furniture in Shanghai Is it popular in Shanghai to build an enclosed glass sun room above the deck and within the yard? Does it require endorsement from the authority for the annex? |
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SJTU - No 565 in the World Ranking "The ranking cannot be absolutely fair", I cannot dispute that. Just like in every examination, it does ascertain a "value" to the students in relation to their study, you can call it unfair but this is the rule of the game and same apply to ranking. Why US Universities score so high and Asian score so low? It depends on whether the local authority is treating the education as a "profit centre" or a "cost centre". |
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View before May Holiday Shanghai Jiaotong University is renowned in compiling the Academic Ranking of World Universities. http://www.webometrics.info/ Many students use this guide as the yardstick in selection of the university. |
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How I drive in Shanghai - Part II Taking about bicycle lane. Last time when I was in Shanghai, I saw a caucasian woman riding a bike standing in the middle of the bicycle lane stopping a column of vehicles who were using the lane as a by-pass, the woman pointed at the sign telling the drivers that the lane is exclusive for bicycle. Two drivers walked out and brushed her aside and then drove on. I was a passenger at the third vehicle of the same column and was embarrassing when I looked on. |
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Reasons of Bad Traffic in Shanghai Shockr, about the Milan incident. If someone received a parking ticket, do you think she should fight the traffic warden in the street or she should defend her motion in the court? Immediate after the parking dispute, the Milan Chinatown turned into sea of red, people were waving Chinese Flag, do you think every home and business in Chinatown should keep a Chinese flag in anticipating of the event and who were distributing the flag. |
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Reasons of Bad Traffic in Shanghai I remember ex-premier of China Zhu Rongji once said "Chinese are the smartest people in the world" and the people of China take his word seriously and often take the same notion to the extreme, eventually, self-esteem prevails. Today, if you challenge anyone of jaywalking or queue jumping, he/she must think you are insulting their intelligence and not knowing they are actually obstructing the social norm. Same to the traffic violators as they think they are not only beating the clock, but also the system. Street vendors always "float" the price against their customers and anticipate counter-offer, but not knowing this is against fair-trade practice and at the end curtailing those would be customers. Two weeks ago in Milan, Italy. A group of Chinese immigrate disputed with local police over parking violation and developed into riot. During confrontation, the street were full of Chinese waving Chinese flag not knowing the act is the sign of occupation of foreign soil. I think it should all start with the "social education". |
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Kijiji SJTU Office JianShuo, my understanding of kijiji.cn is a web offering classified ads and it is free, can you tell me where do you obtain your reverue to make ends meets? |
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My Favorite Food in the World I have had tasted the same in Nanjing for breakfast few years ago, the secret is the chili sauce. Today, most of the chili sauce available from the market are blended with industrial dying agent, it looks red but not spicy nor with any aroma. Last year, I took the venture to enter into rural area to search for the "authentic" "unblended" dry chili powder and I have 5 Kg of it. |
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Shanghainese Girl Marrying Foreigners carsten, for your interest, the article also mentioned during the same period last year, Shanghai also recorded 337 cases of divorce involved foreign spouses, among the top is Canadian and then Japanese. The main reason of divorce is the separation of the couples between two countries. |
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Shanghainese Girl Marrying Foreigners carsten, see if you can access from your side http://www1.appledaily.atnext.com/template/apple/art_main.cfm?iss_id=20070324&sec_id=15335&subsec_id=15336&art_id=6934476 |
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Shanghainese Girl Marrying Foreigners carsten, the source is from friday edition of atnext.com, a newspaper from Hong Kong I believe is banned from China. |
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Shanghainese Girl Marrying Foreigners According to statistics Shanghai, Shanghaiese marrying to foreign spouses was registered at 2960 couples during 2006. Among the foreign spouses, Japanese ranked the top and then Chinese from Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. US and Australia ranked 3rd and 4th. Let the figures tell the story! |
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I Found a Bug - in my Soup If I see a bug in my soup at the restaurant, I'll first pay for the meal and pack the soup and the bug, so the evidence is rightfully belong to me. Register the complaint with the local health authority together with the evidence, if there is one bug in the soup, there must have a group in the kitchen and it is easy for the authority to trace the source of the insanitary. If you live in a city you call home, this is how I ensure the food I eat is safe for me and the fellow citizens. Asking for a free meal or money back does not help the restaurant to keep their kitchen clean. |
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Nanpu Bridge I think the two and half loops spiral landing on the west end bridge is a design fault, it features too many shape and hidden curves and thrill like a roller coaster. I don't think I wish to negotiate this bridge. |
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Best Shanghai Eatery Streets? WuJiang Lu is like a gourmet paradise to me and many tourists who are visiting the city, if the authority is determined to dismantle the street, the city will lost one of her attraction just like the way they closed the XiangYang Market. |
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Xiangyang Market - the Shopping Paradise Over 70% of world raw cashmere and yarn are produced in China, but the dyeing technique are in the hands of Italy and Britain, so for most of the quality cashmere piece goods, China has to import from abroad, so it is not going to be cheap. Cashmere clothing is light weight, warm and soft, but has drawbacks, it produced too much static and poor resiliency. If you really determine to have a cashmere knitwear, get one at Oxford St. or Regent St. at London UK. who has the best price, style, selection and quality. |
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Xiangyang Market - the Shopping Paradise Quality cashmere with good price at XinYang market? Cashmere wool produced in China are usually all scoop up by the European and Japanese buyers. You be lucky if you can find "cashmere sweater" in Xinyang are actually made from lamb wool, if not, synthetic yarn. |
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Best Shanghai Eatery Streets? Loretta, yes, Yang's fried dumpling is good and don't burn your lips on the first bite, but prepare for long queue and eating in the street, the sit-in is deplorable. Try to avoid the consomme soup which is too waterly. The delicatessen at Wang Ja Sa is very good and with comfortable seatings but with no non-smoking partition, better go in group so you can sample different variety. |
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Best Shanghai Eatery Streets? Jian Shuo, thank you for your diciphering of the above, I shall be busy during my fore-coming visit to Shanghai. |
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Living Cost in Shanghai (2007 Edition) oh typos favour instead of favourite, Few more street add to the list Si Nan Lu Huai Hai Zhong Lu Tai Kang Lu Yong Jia Lu Thanks |
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Living Cost in Shanghai (2007 Edition) Jian Shuo, please do me a favourite of translating the following: Dong Jia Du Lu Wan Yu Jie Renmin Lu Yong Jia Lu Xiangyang Nan Lu Hefer Lu Jinan Lu Zhaozhou Lu I am told these streets have the best eateries in Shanghai. |
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Four Seasons Hotel Please be advised the smoke-free environment campaign is not an attempt to extinct smokers, but give the right to the non-smokers and the staff not to inhale the hurtful smoke which may endanger their health in a closed areas. Smokers are ordered to conduct their enjoyment in a open or private area only. |
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Four Seasons Hotel When do you think the municipal government of Shanghai will institute the non-smoking policy like the one being carried out in Hong Kong which is in line with world wide campaign for smoke-free environment. |
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JW Marriott Hong Kong Jian Shuo, next time you go to Hong Kong for business, try to stay at Mandarin Oriental which is about I Km west of Marriott. Mandarin offers the best in the hospitality Industry and set the standard of 5 stars hotel. |
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The Scar in People's Heart oh, typing mistakes>>>>clip should be chip, none should be nor. |
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My Experience with Hong Kong Jian Shuo, correction>>> Hong Kong is now part of the China, you don't apply a 'visa' to enter Hong Kong, you need to obtain an 'entry-exit permit' and is issued only by the Chinese Government. While visa is an endorsment issued by a sovereign country upon or before entry. The Chinese Government is very sensitive about any wordings may associate Hong Kong as a state. |
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The Scar in People's Heart Jian Shuo, great! looking forward to seeing you soon. |
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The Scar in People's Heart carsten, My next visit to Shanghai is during Chinese New Year, if Jian Shuo agrees, he can send his phone # via e-mail to me, please revert. |
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Living Cost in Shanghai - Medicine carsten, looks like we have something in common, I started my career with overseas container services, and if you are from Denmark and engaging in ship building industry, you must be one of the A.P. Moller guy. To stay in China or not, you have to ask if the Chinese are treating you as one of their own, or if you have sentimental feeling towards this country. |
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The Scar in People's Heart Jian Shuo, just a matter of curious, do you know the history which prompted the intrusion of Japan into China during 1931 and 1937 respectively and would not declare war at each other until Pearl Harbour incident? |
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Living Cost in Shanghai - Driving Just imagine you crippled a person in a traffic accident, and a million RMB is a small amount for the victim to live for the rest his life not to mention the medical care required. In Canada, most auto coverage started at CAD 2 millions. |
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The Scar in People's Heart I know a man in Shanghai, he lost a leg during the campaign of Culture Revolution by his neighbouring red guard who also happens to be his childhood friend. Today, the man and the former red guard both close to '60 still live next to each other and two families are closely associated. The crippled man never blame the neighbour who beated him up none the former red guard shown any regret or remorse of the incident, nevertheless, both blame the 'circumstance' caused the consequence and mishap. Forget the past, look at the future, otherwise you'll always have clip on the shoulder. |
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Living Cost in Shanghai (2007 Edition) Jian Shuo, in the event if you are writing on the food in Shanghai. Can you or the fellow readers suggest the good eateries in Shanghai. eg. Dumpling House at Yu Yuan, Xiao Yung Pan fried Dumpling, Ningpo Dumpling also at Yu Yuan and the poultry blood soup at the hotel restaurant between the two stadiums. I just love to eat at Shanghai! |
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Living Cost in Shanghai (2007 Edition) Are you sure Coke 355ml is 1.20 Yuan per can? The cheapest I can get is 1.70/1.80 Yuan per can at 6 packer from Lianhua. |
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Chinese Stock Market is Crazy carsten, the Chinese law governing the foreign ownership of the real estate more or less contains the principal only, so different bureaucrats can have different interpretations and implementations. |
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Chinese Stock Market is Crazy God knows! The policy can change as fast as the prices of the stocks, different real estate agent can come to me with different interpretations. Hey carsten, "life was like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get"...........Forrest Gump |
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New Xiangyang Market Location? No wonder! when I counter-offered one-third of the asking prices, often received hostile receiptions at shops of the old city. |
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New Xiangyang Market Location? JianShuo, can the same tactic of bargaining (70% off) applies to the vendors at Shanghai Old Street or Yu Yuan? I found these vendors are hard to negotiate. |
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Standing in a Train? No... Any body knows when was the corruption free decade of China? It was during the Culture Revolution! "It was the best of time, it was the worst of time" |
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Shanghai Consolidated Guide Bourbon Street is at New Orleans, the name just refers to the place full of bars, restaurants and night clubs etc. |
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Personal Income Tax in China Oh dear, almost every incomers are subject to taxation in China, the inland revenue must hire an army of tax collectors to the task. |
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I Got a Tax Summary! The postscript printed at the bottom of your tax form is politically incorrect! It can construe as a deed from the government, and theoretically, the individual tax payer can challenge the government the appropriation of his or her batch of tax dollars to the activities other than 'flourishing and prosperity'. This can create chaos in government administration. The western countries deem the taxation is the duty and obligation of every citizens and not a contribution of wealth subject to glorification. |
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Books I Read These Days Yes, today is the first day of winter! I wish you and every blogger a happy holiday season and New Year of health, happiness and prosperity. |
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Shanghai Looks Similar to US, But... Shrek7, The land right in China has reverted back to the government since 1958, all the properties in China today are sitting on either borrowed or leased land, so by law, the government has right to re-claim any land at any time and the residents are only subject to re-settlement fee at the discretion of the authority. I have my properties in Xujiahui, after reading all the documents, I find the only right I have is the "dwelling right" and it can revoke on demand despite the land lease term. |
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Public Holidays in China Jian Shuo, I am still wondering how Shanghai being the economic centre for China can lapse 7 consecutive days 3 times a year without losing business. |
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The Blind Men and The Elephant Jian Shuo, I agree with you. Remember few years earlier of that faithful evening, a similar event almost same in every scale was happened in Gwangju, Korea. Today history has white washed that event, the world has forgotten Gwangju and most Korean are reluntant to discuss it, not by government repression, but people in Korea think this was a day in infamy. Oh dear, I used the word "infamy" on the day of infamy, Dec 7. |
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Hello from Narita Airport, Tokyo Jian Shuo, what is the rationale of taking NH to SFO via NRT? where you can take UA direct to SFO. |
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The Blind Men and The Elephant Hello Stephen, I am stephen as well. Do you know Chinese authority has forbidden any form of discussion of the event on that faithful evening up to this date. Thanks to CNN I was able to watch the full live coverage before and at the event, but to my surprise, many footage we can see today associated with the event has carefully either deleted or edited when compared to the live coverage. I hope one day the truth will prevail. The official account released by the Chinese authority after the event is 37 soldiers were killed with no autopsy details and that was quickly diluted by the western media. |
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Chaminade in Santa Cruz An outwardbound school inside the resort? how lavish! |
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Rumors after Rumors - Part II I see this is a conspiracy of defamation in an attempt to weaken the integrity between you and your company. This happens a lot in the western business world and seems Shanghai is using the same trick now which is an effective and cheap ways to remove the competition. Watch out those head hunters, they can either make you or break you (with an empty post) and you never know the mechanism behind it. At any rate, Jian Shuo, watch your back! |
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I am not a Big Fan of Hate - Part II I think most of you have overlooked one important factor about the intermarriage in Chinese society, the blessing from parent of the would be groom or bride hold a significant factor in deciding the marriage. Most Chinese people do not wish to see their grand-children bearing the family name to be a 'mix' (bad for family tradition) and may not able to communicate with them. On the other hand, Chinese bride marrying a Caucasian would meet less opposition from the family, after all she is not longer a member of the family after marriage and will bear the name of her spouse. |
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I am not a Big Fan of Hate - Part II Ben, During 1940 summer, the battle of France concluded, and the French government surrendered to Germany, according to clause in the instrucment France must hand over all the oversea colony to Germany including Indo-Chine. Germany at that time did not have a naval force strong enough to escort ground troops to Indo-Chine. British on the other hand controlled the entire Indo peninsula from Singapore all the way to Burma and into India. She sees German occupied Indo-Chine would post a threat to her colonial interest in the region, and for political reason, she cannot and would not launch an incursion against the France garrison stationed there, otherwise the battle of Indo-Chine will begin before the battle of Britain. British solution to the crisis was to invade US to occupy the France colony so that US can protect British interest in the region. In the view of US, Indo-Chine has much strategy significance than the Phillippine, the task of annexation was left to the commander-in-chief Douglas Macarthur stationed in Phillippine. Macarthur at that time was an army general and has no ships, before he can order enough battle ships from San Diego to carry out the task, out of everybody expectation, Japanese land troops already entered Indo-Chine from China with German decree. Macarthur was furious and since he has friends in Washington, a trade embargo was instituted against Japan for the advance into Indo-Chine. This is the cause of the Pacific War to the best my research. |
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I am not a Big Fan of Hate - Part II ILoveYouToo, I guess you like watered down version of histroy. |
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I am not a Big Fan of Hate - Part II Ben, "The Pearl Harbour attack was provoked by Japanese atrocities in China" How come US ambassador to Japan Joseph Kennedy (father of JFK) was able to broker war supplies to Japan until summer 1940? How come FDR did not imposed trade embargo with Nazi Germany, after all FDR and Churchill are 'friends at the navy'. How come Lend-lease agreement did not extended to China prior to Pacific War, may be FDR and Madam Chiang had not established friendship? How come 'Flying Tiger' reached China after Pearl Harbour, and the air defence before that was aided by Soviet Union until June 1940. The US Congress had voted to stay neutral at both European and Asian war and FDR had to comply. The trade embargo with Japan by US and British was a result of conflict of the colonial interest at Indo-Chine (now known as Vietnam+Cambodia+Loas) at the end of the Battle of France which occurred at summer 1940. |
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I am not a Big Fan of Hate - Part II ILoveYouToo, If you really don't mess with us, then the world shall live happily thereafter. Elaine, Check this out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendi_Deng |
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I am not a Big Fan of Hate - Part II ILoveYouToo, I admire you patriotism and loyalty towards your own country. USA need people like you to stay strong. Do you actually aware the causes of the Pearl Habour and war on terror and who was provoking it? History have taught us many lessons to prevent us to repeat the same in the future, but to my amaze, many history books today have been white washed to become a story books. |
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Metro Lines are the Bones of the City Thanks Herbert, you gave me extra fun of my antique advantage! |
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Metro Lines are the Bones of the City These street names suppose to be the antique market in Shanghai and was given by another blogger, nevertheless, I shall use the two versions of Dongtai Lu provided with the taxi driver. Thanks Jian. |
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Metro Lines are the Bones of the City can anybody give me the Chinese version of: Fangbangshong Lu and Dongtai Lu, and are these places accessible via Metro or bus from Xujiahui? Please advise, thank you! |
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I am not a Big Fan of Hate... Talking of history books, not only the Chinese version has been distorted, the world history have somewhat modified to conceal the aggression of certain countries. At the beginning of Sino-Japanese conflict started at 1937, US was sided with Japan and supplied her with all the raw material in needs of the aggression. At the summer of 1940, US and Japan realation suddenly went sour and oil embargo followed which eventually started the raid on Pearl Harbour, the official version we can see today of the US-Japan turned hostile at the eve of the Pacific War is US switched side to China and tried to stop the war machine of Imperial Japanese force. The fact is China never recieved any aids from US prior to Pearl Harbour and the truth cause of the Pacific War have been 'white washed'. Last month, the description of the US oil embargo prior of the Pacific War displayed at Yasukuni has been removed at the request of US government, even Wikipedia has a 'diluted' version of the cause. Perhaps the truth cause will never be known to the younger generation. |
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Photo: Dog under Sunshine To place the stuffed animals and comforters under the sun, it must for either sanitation or fumigation purpose. Jian Shuo must be so relaxing this weekend just to handle the house works. |
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Suggest a Topic I have to dispute that. Chinese celebrity such as Yao Ming, Zhang Ziyi etc, do you think English speaking Caucasian have any difficulty to pronounce their names? or do you see any government official carries a Christian name when addressing the foreign dignatories. It is due to many Chinese are too 'shy' to put forward their Chinese name especially when they try to subculture into Western society. How often do you see a Japanese bears a Western name? because they have deep respect of their culture and heritage. |
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Online Map in Shanghai (and China) Thanks greg, any chance you can tell me fangbangshong lu and Dongtai lu in chinese character so I can relay the same to the taxi driver. Many thanks. |
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Online Map in Shanghai (and China) Coming to Shanghai next week, can anyone tell me where i can get a old map, like the Shanghai or Peking in '20 or '30 or earlier for my wall decoration, not necessary authetic, a framed replica is preferred. Any advise? |
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Skiing in Shanghai cotton, the best place to get the ski clothing are the shops around Ocean Terminal at Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong, they have authentic brand names clothing and complete with toque and mitten, but no equipments. |
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Drive on the Right in China Jian Shou, "that land in terms of geographic issue" means geographic landmarks. Australia has a very dramatic landscape. Australia is famous for its "outback," the remote lands of the interior. The desert outback covers most of the interior. It is too hot, dry and barren to support many people. Eastern Australia has large areas of grasslands, used primarily for sheep and cattle ranches. Australia also has some mountainous areas and plateaus scattered throughout the country. The Blue Mountains, on the south-eastern end of Australia, get their name from the blue haze caused by oil droplets given off from the eucalyptus trees. |
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Drive on the Right in China Very good explore for China driving roles. Someday you or us could make another topic regarding Road History compare of China and World. From pictures you had such wonderful trip in Australia. Any idea for that land in terms of geographic issue? |
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Drive on the Left in Australia Multiculturalism is an ideology advocating people of all races and cultures with equal status and without racism. I think it is an appropriate term to express the interface of human. I apologize of my alleged wording and should never overwhelm your comment. |
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Drive on the Left in Australia JianShuo, it is not diversity, but multiculturalism. |
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Jian Shuo in Australia - Day II, III and IV Jian Shuo, are you visiting only Queensland and NSW, will you also see New Zealand after Australia? If you do, NZ has an excellent selections of woollen goods and sheep hide products! Have a safe trip! |
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Life in Remote Places carsten, yes, wikipedia is blocked in China since last october due to failure to compromise on content filter with the Chinese authority. But I have good news for you, the authority is aggressively preparing baidupedia to replace wikipedia and I am sure you'll find fun with that in due course. |
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Life in Remote Places I don't think people come to Sydney for concert or opera, as matter of fact, they don't have show everyday, but Sydney Opera House signifies the landmark of Sydney and Australian are proud of it. Just like Oriental Pearl of Shanghai, the Eiffel Tower of Paris, Golden Gate Bridge of San Francisco and Big Ban of London, these are the symbols of the cities they represent and are the 'must see' of every visitor. |
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PVG: Shanghai Pudong Airport Map I remember few years ago, the pilots of Singapore Airline was attempting to take off at Taipei airport and misunderstood the runway 05L and 05R and eventually slammed into the closed runway. The rating of SQ was dropped from the top all the way to the bottom. The air-controllers have their way to speak clearly to the pilot, e.g. 05R will call as 05Romeo. The long term plan for PVG is to have four parallel runways and four terminals, anyone knows which direction will the airport to be expanded? |
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Life in Remote Places Jian Shuo, you are in Sydney, good for you! Enjoy your holidays. The chief officer of Shanghai Government is only removed from his present positions pending for investigation, he is only condemned, not yet convicted. |
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