http://baoblogs.com/haiwangyuan providing China news and notes since June 2008 Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:13:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://baoblogs.com/haiwangyuan/2008/10/10/forbidden-city-beyond-space-and-time/ 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 ... http://baoblogs.com/haiwangyuan/2008/10/05/recent-us-arms-sales-to-taiwan/ 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 ... http://baoblogs.com/haiwangyuan/2008/09/29/olympics-tainted-milk-and-space-walking/ 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 ... http://baoblogs.com/haiwangyuan/2008/09/29/girls-gone-wild-in-my-hometown-tianjin/ While surfing the Internet, I stumbled into an article from the China Youth Daily that gives some survival tips for personal interactions in China. It is titled “Nine Don’ts to Help You Survive in China” (在中国生存的九个“绝不要”). I’d like to summarize the “nine don’ts” (with my own experience and comments) here ... http://baoblogs.com/haiwangyuan/2008/09/16/donts-in-china-and-bu-zhi-bu-wei-guo/ While waiting for my flight to Nashville at the Toronto international airport, a headline on the front page of a newspaper caught my attention, and after reading the news, put me to shame. My first reaction was, "How could China do this!" I am a naturalized American citizen alright, but ... http://baoblogs.com/haiwangyuan/2008/08/31/right-or-wrong-a-cultural-conflict/ 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 ... http://baoblogs.com/haiwangyuan/2008/08/31/my-greetings/