China
May 13, 2009
- Estoy borracha y por eso no puedo leer. Aunque quisiera.Pero tampoco puedo dejar de pensar.El metro de la Línea 13 de Beijing se mueve demasiado, atraviesa bosques, comunas, rodea por el norte a la urbe gigante, ajena en su periferia, intocable para mí en sus extremos.Soy sensible a Beijing por alguna extrañísima razón, pero este metro se mueve mucho y muy lento y el chino de al lado habla ...
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May 13, 2009
- Rise of China in the international horizon is the single-most challenge to India and the political class in India is not much concerned about it, opined Dr. Manoj Joshi, Consulting Editor, Mail Today, New Delhi and an eminent strategic thinker. Dr. Joshi stated this while delivering the Seventh Brig. Rajinder Singh Memorial Lecture today organised by the Department of Strategic and Regional ...
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April 4, 2009
- [JOURNAL ENTRY, JANUARY 2005:] Here in Shanghai, the golden city that attracts opportunity-seekers from all over the country, you see a vast range of Asian faces. There are the square, flat-planed ones from the north; the almond-eyed, somewhat Polynesian ones from the south; and some that are so Western-looking that you know a Russian fell into the gene pool somewhere along the line. There are ...
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April 4, 2009
- [JOURNAL ENTRY, OCTOBER 2004:] There are about a billion and a half Chinese, and they all seem to ride the subway at the same time that I do. Still, it’s interesting to watch people. In China, as elsewhere, girls who really like a guy always look at him in the same way. And when they don’t really care about a guy, they will look at him in a different way, but all with the same expression. ...
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April 4, 2009
- [JOURNAL ENTRY, OCTOBER 2004:] The Chinese young people all know Western pop music. But they particularly revere the Carpenters and it is not unusual to hear “Yesterday Once More” booming out of the shopping mall sound systems. I cannot tell you the number of times I’ve heard that song swirling around restaurants and bars. Depending on how inspired they might feel at any given moment, it ...
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April 4, 2009
- [JOURNAL ENTRY, OCTOBER 2004:] Our Chinese neighbor (English name “Cecelia”) has been teaching my wife and me some Mandarin words. You cannot imagine the strange ways that you have to curl your tongue in your mouth and against your teeth to approximate the correct sounds. Also, the sounds often come from lower in the larynx. Some of the sounds are a weird blend of consonants, vowels, and ...
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April 4, 2009
- Between September 2004 and July 2005, my wife and I lived and worked in Shanghai. It was an experience I’ll never duplicate, no matter how long I may live. I was on sabbatical from my high school in South Jersey, where I teach English. When I first announced to my classes that I was going to the People’s Republic of China, many of my students couldn’t understand my reasons. I told them ...
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March 27, 2009
- THE DAILY EVENT FUTURE BEAT Sparing no expense in its determination to pique the interest of its demanding, easily distracted readership, the Daily Event has sent reporter Dale Arden hurtling at near light speed--and great personal risk--through a space/time wormhole into the future. This is her first dispatch. EXOPLANET IN DEFAULT BLAMES "EARTHGREED" SPACE STATION MAMMON, ...
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March 21, 2009
- According to a report from Civil Rights and Livelihood Watch, a human rights group out of Beijing, China has arrested Zhang Shijun, a former soldier who recently posted a letter on the Internet asking President Hu Jintao to “use his wisdom” to reevaluate what the Communist Party called a counter-revolutionary incident, but in fact was a massacre of hundreds if not thousands of student ...
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March 11, 2009
- Yesterday (March 10, 2009) was the 50th anniversary of the failed Tibetan uprising against Beijing rule that sent the Dalai Lama, age 73, into exile. 2009 is a year of several politically sensitive anniversaries. As each approaches, the Chinese government is clamping down on any potential unrest. On March 10, armed Chinese troops stepped up identity checks of Tibetans and hotel guests as ...
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