A seemingly fraud-ridden election prompted a protest of a million strong with sporatic violence and bloody crackdown by the incumbent government that claimed victory in the election. The situation is so 捉摸不定 zhuó-mó-bù-dìng), meanging uncertain or volatile, that we had better 静观其变 （jìng-guān-qí-biàn）or quietly watch it change. For, sometimes the best strategy is 一动不如一静 (Yī dòng [...]

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I became one of over two million fans on Jackie Chan’s Facebook, a profile he helps market the 2010 Shanghai World Expo. I love the song and for the sake of his fans who don’t read Chinese, I have transcribed its lyric and translated it into English. It is an effort, to use a Chinese [...]

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When I turned on my TV today, CNN reminds me of the 20th anniversary of June 4th. CNN news crew on the Tiananmen Square jostling with Chinese with unbrellas was quite a scene, which, to CNN, was the kind of “man-biting-dog” news material. And no mistakingly the anchor made a big fuss about it.
Twenty years? [...]

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I just saw this: a virtual tour of the famed Forbidden City in Beijing, China. If you have been there, it’s worth a revisit in the Cyberspace. If not, you’ll see why so many people feel drawn to it. If you have some experience with Second Life, you’ll find the navigation very easy. If you [...]

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A few months before the end of the Bush Administration, it finally made good the promise it had made years before to sell Taiwan defensive and offensive weapons worth of 6.5 billion U.S. dollars. This action will surely anger the Chinese Government and its military. To them, more advanced weapons in the Taiwanese hands will [...]

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To China, the first half of 2008 teemed with bad news: a series of serious natural disasters and riots fanned by Tibetan separatists. Before the Chinese could breathe a sigh of relief and rejoice after China successfully hosted the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Beijing, they were humiliated by the tainted milk scandal. Now China [...]

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I can’t get the video inserted right in the blog. But you may visit another blog of mine at my university WKU. This particular blog entry features a YouTube video I recently came across. I used it in my Chinese class to give my students a glimpse of what their peers do in China after [...]

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Sorry that I came to blog here so late! I have just been back from my China trip. I went from July 8 through August 12. I first went to Kunming, Yunnan Province of China, where I attended a forum co-sponsored by the Library of Yunnan Technology University and Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA). As [...]

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