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October 29, 2008
Going online
In news unrelated to China, the Christian Science Monitor, known for its strong international coverage, is going all in. Online, that is. This NY Times article “Christian Science Paper to End Daily Print Edition” makes it sound like, eventually, all print media will be forced to make the virtual leap. Is the death of old media near?
October 25, 2008
Just what China needs: more people
“Chinese population may swell to 1.5 billion”
(Shanghai Daily) 2008-10-24
The population on the Chinese mainland is expected to reach 1.5 billion in 2033, an official revealed at a forum in Beijing Thursday.
The population will see an annual increase of about 8 million people over the next decade and may reach 1.36 billion in 2010 and 1.4 [...]
October 23, 2008
Long overdue
Here’s what’s been happening in my life lately.
1. I’m no longer homeless. Celebrate with me, please. My dad is no longer calling me a nomad and I’m actually living out of a closet now, not a suitcase (wearing the same clothes from July wasn’t really working in Shanghai autumn weather).
My apartment is near school, and [...]
October 1, 2008
Chinese National Day in Hong Kong
Hong Kong and China. Separate, but so together.
Mao Zedong stood at Tiananmen Square and declared the founding of the People’s Republic of China 59 years ago. Today, I celebrated Chinese National Day in Hong Kong — a Special Autonomous Region of China that at one point, symbolized the country’s humiliation and defeat by foreign powers.
And [...]
September 27, 2008
“China big attraction for US: poll”
Gotta love them Yankees.
In this Wednesday’s China Daily, Xie Chuanjiao wrote about a US-based survey called “A Study of American Perceptions of China”, in which two million Americans were polled about their ideas and images of the Middle Kingdom.
A few interesting pieces from the survey results:
What do Americans associate most with China? Forty-nine percent said [...]
September 23, 2008
Got milk…
700 Tons of Chinese Baby Formula Tainted with Melamine
Originally uploaded by g_yulong1
So far 53,000 children have been sickened from tainted baby formula in China. Not surprisingly, it’s got a lot of people feeling pretty scared.
I stayed with my Shanghainese friend and her family this past weekend. She graduated from Fudan last year and is now [...]
September 18, 2008
What I miss
Summer in Canada 03
Originally uploaded by april.fong4
Back in Shanghai and having a hard time settling down.
That probably has a lot to do with the fact that I’m homeless at the moment. My good pal Sofia, thankfully, has given me a place to stay throughout this apartment-searching debacle. I’ve been back for a little over a [...]
September 2, 2008
Mancini, the movies and me
I’ve become estranged from the cinema this year. That whole movie theatre experience where you sit comfortably in cushy chairs with your friends — a bag of fresh-popped popcorn in one hand, the big screen sprawled across the wall in front of you. After all, I’ve been living in a land of one-dollar pirated DVDs. [...]
August 27, 2008
A change, here and there
There are a few reasons why it’s always nice to come back home.
Obviously nothing tops being with my family, my dog and everything that’s familiar. Ah yes, then there’s the green, the clear blue skies and beauty of open spaces in Canada. Sometimes though — just sometimes — all of these things just cannot make [...]
