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Oct 1 2008 | Posted in Politics - Canada | Read More »
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Tang dynasty and Japan
Share The next batch of photos that I’d like to share here were taken from the Huaqing Palace (華清池). It was once the gigantic bathtub of the Imperial Concubine Yang Guifei (楊貴妃) of Tang Dynasty. Like many women characters in history who were famous of being pretty, Yang was ususally blamed as the root of [...]
Jul 3 2008 | Posted in China-Japan relation | Read More »
911-style terror plot foiled by China
Share Washington Post – The crew of a Chinese airliner bound for Beijing thwarted an attempt to crash the plane last week, a Chinese government official said Sunday. The plane had taken off from the region of Xinjiang in northwestern China, where police in January raided an office of an ethnic minority separatist group. Police [...]
Mar 9 2008 | Posted in China | Read More »
Orientals work like dogs?
Share In a surprise comment about the shopping on statutory holidays debate in Toronto City Hall this week, Coun. Rob Ford said: “Those Oriental people work like dogs. They work their hearts out. They are workers non-stop. They sleep beside their machines. That’s why they are successful in life.” Ford went on: “I’m telling you, [...]
Mar 7 2008 | Posted in Canada | Read More »
Is Chinese culture going mainstream?
Share (caption: America’s first cartoon character who teaches preschoolers Mandarin premieres on the Chinese New Year day.) The world has changed. “Ni Hao, Kai-lan” is only one signal telling the emergence in importance of China on the world stage. My friend’s nephew, now 4 years old, was born and raised in Hong Kong. His parents, [...]
Feb 7 2008 | Posted in Chinese Canadian | Read More »
MPs, reporters poles apart on journalism fairness: study
Share Canadian Media Research Consortium release – Members of Parliament and the journalists who report on them agree on the importance of accuracy, balance and impartiality in reporting, but are poles apart on just how far journalists should go to get their stories. Those are just some of the findings in an insightful new study [...]
Dec 6 2007 | Posted in Canada | Read More »
And now China is king of ‘cultural goods’ exports too
Share Asia Pacific Foundation release – China’s economic surge has captured the attention of much of the world. Its export goods from cotton undershirts to computers have flooded Western markets. It has become, in common wisdom, the “workshop of the world.” Less noticed has been the rapid rise of China as a supplier to the [...]
Jul 22 2007 | Posted in China | Read More »
Amazing ‘Thousand-hand Buddha" performance
Share This beautiful performance is by the China Disabled People’s Performing Art Troupe. The choreography of the dance, Buddha with Thousand Hands, is breathtaking and awe inspiring. Even more amazing is that all of the performers are deaf and cannot hear the music. They have performed in Vancouver last February during the Chinese New Year. [...]
Jun 22 2007 | Posted in Canada | Read More »
A culture of suicide
Share Asahi Shimbun – A record high 886 students committed suicide in 2006 as problems at school continued to be a growing source of despair for the nation’s youths, the National Police Agency said Thursday. The figure was up by 25 from the previous year and is the highest since the NPA started compiling suicide [...]
Jun 7 2007 | Posted in Human rights | Read More »
And now promoting Chinese culture, language is a conspiracy too?
Share This is ridiculous!!! What is the problem of promoting one’s culture and language?? From what is reported in this article, the CSIS’s claim that China is using Confucius Institutes as “soft power” to drive for global dominance is pure speculation. It’s not supported by facts or evidence that the college is doing anything else [...]
May 29 2007 | Posted in Canada-China relation | Read More »
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