http://baoblogs.com/haiwangyuan Providing China news and notes since June 2008 Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:51:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://baoblogs.com/haiwangyuan/2009/06/15/a-few-chinese-proverbs-relating-to-the-iran-situation/ 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 ... http://baoblogs.com/haiwangyuan/2009/06/08/lyric-of-the-theme-song-for-the-one-year-countdown-of-the-2010-world-expo-in-shanghai/ 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 ... http://baoblogs.com/haiwangyuan/2009/06/04/cnn-june-4th/ Recently a message was sent to a mailing list of Chinese faculty on a college campus inviting the first few who replied to the email to a FREE dinner in honor of a visiting scholar from China. Yes, the dinner was Free, that is, it would be paid by the ... http://baoblogs.com/haiwangyuan/2009/04/17/why-does-no-one-come-to-party/ April 12, 2009, I was wakened up by the vibration of my cell phone on the bed table. It was only 5:15 am! When I saw the text message that caused the vibration, my vexation immediately turned into delight. It was a colleague of mine asking me to add him ... http://baoblogs.com/haiwangyuan/2009/04/12/what-my-dream-reveals/ 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/