May 01 2008
A sign of Yang Guifei (719-756) exhibit staged in a small side wing in the Forbidden City. Yang was the most famous and beloved concubine in history - Chinese version of Wallis Simpson for whom King Edward VIII gave up the throne to marry the woman he loved. My interest in her was due to [...]
May 01 2008
Coupe of stories about Beijing, as much as about China I would hate to tell. Here you have it, five years after the fact.
After long hiatus - 18 years to be exact, I found myself in my home town with my children in toe. Although I didn’t go back, but I thought I had kept [...]
May 01 2008
cut/paste ..
1 。 We got the Permit, FINALLY.
（ 1） 经过近三周的努力，我们终于得到了正式的批准，现发布时间与地点如下。
时间： 5月 4日下午 1:30-3:30 （ 12:00准 备入场集合）
地点： Foley Square (close to City Hall)
2。 关于集会主旨的特别声明
集会主 题：和平－奥运。
我 们要表达的信息： Free Olympics from Politics.
为什么我们不做西方媒体热衷的 “西藏 问题 [...]
May 01 2008
Few might find it odd that my kids dislike China . The 2003 visit were kind of a disaster, in term of they didn’t learn Mandarin as I fully expected. Golfer predicted it, but I didn’t see that coming. I was so sure that a summer in Beijing they’ll return not just with fluent Mandarin, [...]
May 01 2008
Wow ..
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Eisenhower overruled some of his military commanders in summer 1958, ordering them not to use nuclear weapons against China if communist forces blockaded the Taiwan Strait, according to declassified Air Force documents.
Eisenhower "made it clear that the Chinese would be given a warning with conventional explosives [...]
May 01 2008
Is this the recruiting season or what? A few good men are needed, A friend’s son who’s under grat at Johns Hopkins at the moment, summer interned at Google’s Manhattan’s office last year. They liked him so much, offered him the job. The friend said she [...]