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China Bright: January 2009
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Thursday, January 22, 2009. Today's news reports claim that China is ready to make amends with France over their pre-Olympic, anti-China stance on Tibet. Ready to mend ties with France: govt. BEIJING (AFP) - China. Said Thursday it was ready to mend ties with France following a deep row over Tibet, in its first conciliatory move since tensions flared last year. Premier Wen's Europe Trip To Focus On Econ Cooperation. Says Wen offers Europe "journey of confidence". All 198 news articles. Was officially pro...
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China Bright: December 2008
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Saturday, December 20, 2008. China's first mass-produced hybrid electric car hits the market 2008 BYD Auto, Chinese company backed by Warren Buffett. A Car in Every Port. BYD Auto: China's first mass-produced hybrid car goes on sale. BEIJING, Dec. 15, 2008 (AFP). China's first mass-produced hybrid electric car hit the market on Monday, its manufacturer said, in a move aimed at driving the nation to the cutting edge of the world's green auto industry. BYD, which also specialises in making rechargeable bat...
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China Bright: Saving a lost art... Chinese Street Food
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Thursday, November 27, 2008. Saving a lost art. Chinese Street Food. During the Maoist years street chefs were banned from providing their distinctive cuisine. Despite the invasion of McDonald's and KFC there are some people who are working to revive the diversity of foods and cooking styles provided in Chinese street food. Some of these vendors trace their lineage in the culinary arts back over 200 years and through 7 generations. Here's a clip on Beijing's Street Food. And here's part 2.
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China Bright: November 2008
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Thursday, November 27, 2008. Saving a lost art. Chinese Street Food. During the Maoist years street chefs were banned from providing their distinctive cuisine. Despite the invasion of McDonald's and KFC there are some people who are working to revive the diversity of foods and cooking styles provided in Chinese street food. Some of these vendors trace their lineage in the culinary arts back over 200 years and through 7 generations. Here's a clip on Beijing's Street Food. And here's part 2. Sponsors inclu...
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China Bright: The Virtual Gugong
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Friday, October 10, 2008. The Forbidden City: Beyond Space and Time. Is a new Web site created under a partnership between The Palace Museum. The site provides visitors with access to an immersive 3-dimensional virtual world where you can celebrate and explore aspects of Chinese culture and history. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Thomas Crampton on China. Wen Jiabao's Web Group. Wen Jiabao - More than a Million! Door County and Jingdezhen. Return to a bicycling Beijing. View my complete profile.
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China Bright: August 2008
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Wednesday, August 20, 2008. Mao Zedong, Madame Mao and Hua Guofeng. I went back to my hutong and started building a graphic animation, a timeline that I could use to visually take me from the here-and-now, back through the dynasties to the beginnings of recorded time. Today, the announcement of the death of China's Hua Guofeng. Born to a poor family of Shanxi province in 1921, Hua Guofeng was originally named Su Zhu. 蘇鑄) In 1936, at the age of 15, he joined the Long March. And her three close associates,...
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China Bright: May 2008
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008. On China, Tibet, the Olympics and Hollywood Celebrities. It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.". Sorry my well-meaning friends but, I have no sympathy for the Dalai Lama (DL). After reading The Wisdom of Forgiveness. I forgive you for dominating and suppressing the Chinese Tibetan people under a social order that was far more cruel and reactionary than serfdom in Europe in the Middle Ages. I forgive you and your monks for living ...
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China Bright: Discovering Yi-Fu Tuan
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Saturday, December 6, 2008. While teaching as a professor at the University of Minnesota in 1968 Yi-Fu Tuan. Began developing and espousing his philosophy of systematic humanistic geography. Of the two branches of systematic geography (physical and human) that exist, human geography employs many of the techniques used in the humanities such as source analysis and the use of text and literature to make findings. February 2005 edition that explains it best:. Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience.
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China Bright: China's first mass-produced hybrid electric car hits the market 2008 | BYD Auto, Chinese company backed by Warren Buffett
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Saturday, December 20, 2008. China's first mass-produced hybrid electric car hits the market 2008 BYD Auto, Chinese company backed by Warren Buffett. A Car in Every Port. BYD Auto: China's first mass-produced hybrid car goes on sale. BEIJING, Dec. 15, 2008 (AFP). China's first mass-produced hybrid electric car hit the market on Monday, its manufacturer said, in a move aimed at driving the nation to the cutting edge of the world's green auto industry. BYD, which also specialises in making rechargeable bat...