On this page the following entries were made in the “February, 2008” time-frame.
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Moving Past Baijiu (Thank God)
This year I’m spending Spring Festival in Ningbo (about three hours from Shanghai). I was a bit concerned that I was going to get stuck in those horrible toasting dinners where everyone is forced to drink baijiu (grain alcohol), but fortunately, most people here seem to prefer red wine. There are still a lot of toasts, [...]
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Donate to Obama
Super Tuesdays results were anything but decisive for either Democratic candidate. However, Senator Obama won the most states and the most delgates. The next several contests favor Obama, and if he can make a big push we will have a new face of leadership in America, after 28 years of Clintons and Bushes in the [...]
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Bang Bang Bang Means One Thing
The Year of the Rat is here, and that can only mean one thing: two weeks af constant firecrackers crackling outside my window. China once banned fireworks in the big cities, but now they are back with a venegence. Kids fire them off, and so do adults. It’s a constant barrage.
Outside of stadiums people set [...]
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What do Chinese Make of Democracy?
Tonight I was watching a Chinese new show called ‘360.’ The broadcast was pretty interesting in that it went into a lot of detail about the recent Serbian election that seems to point toward Kosovo’s independence, and seems to take a deeper look at world issues. What the broadcast made me wonder is how China’s [...]
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China’s Bad-Service Economy
American politicians love to lament the fact that so many US manufacturing jobs go to China, but they less often talk about the service-sector growth that trade encourages. Based on my experience in China, the US will never lose much of this economic activity to Asia’s economic dragon.
Simply put, the service sector in China is, [...]
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China’s Domestic Media Closed, but Gateway Open
Most of my friends in the States, and indeed, most of the mainstream media outside of China, is under the false impression that news only trickles into the the Mainland. Historically this has been true, and there are still remnants around, but if you can read or understand English, as many young Chinese can, things [...]
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Su Fei Examines Chinese Views on the Election
American Su Fei has a video up where she goes around asking Beijingers what they think about the American election, primarily the Obama-Hillary aspect. I should mention that I was planning to do this bit based on message boards a few weeks back–except the discussions about Obama had almost no participants and made little sense. [...]
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China’s Ideas About Media
It looks like the US is going to press China via the WTO on media restrictions. Apparently the government has been using restrictions on foreign media as a way to get Xinhua a competitive advantage. This mimics moves over the years in the auto sector among others (many of which were phased out under WTO [...]
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