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Thu, 1 May 2008 | By bodiekern | Views [468]
I highly recommend China as a budget travel destination, with the caveat that She is not an easy place for the wheelchair-bound. Most places don't have ramps, many don't even have elevators, and crossing the street would be a perpetual nightmare. Make ... Read more >
Thu, 1 May 2008 | By bodiekern | Views [440]
In a couple of years, China has gone from copying American IT business models to innovating their own. Beware American politicians who would stifle our entrepreneurial creativity by raising the corporate tax rate--already the 2nd highest in the industrial ... Read more >
Thu, 1 May 2008 | By bodiekern | Views [477]
While the B2B (Business-to-Business) model flew high and then crashed in the US, China developed a more efficient B2B system. You order a computer, for example, by phone. A few hours later it is delivered. By bicycle. B2B: Business-to-Bicycle.
Thu, 1 May 2008 | By bodiekern | Views [519]
Don't expect to get a better deal here on anything that China imports--unless you are going to Hong Kong. I paid 30% more for my camera than I would have in the States--and the instruction manual is in Chinese. Bring a laptop, buy it in Hong Kong, ... Read more >
Thu, 1 May 2008 | By bodiekern | Views [473]
Chinese people, especially women, butt in line shamelessly, always pretending they didn't notice that you were there. They look left and merge right. Who cares? It's free entertainment, seeing the contortions they will go through to pull it off.
Thu, 1 May 2008 | By bodiekern | Views [304]
Texas has a wonderful region called Big Bend, where the Rio Grande takes a swing into Mexico. The Yellow River takes a bend that defines an entire desert--the Ordos--which is 91,000 square kilometers in size. One gigantic bend big enough to hold TWENTY-... Read more >
Thu, 1 May 2008 | By avant-garde_chauvintist | Views [600]
New day. New holiday. The Chinese flags are back up outside every building in China. And the nationalism continues to seeth during this national holiday. Yesterday, I was walking across the obscure footbridge near my apartment to catch the bus.... Read more >
Thu, 1 May 2008 | By williamwong | Photo Gallery
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Wed, 30 Apr 2008 | By aptyson | Views [535]
Spent just over a week in China and really enjoyed the experience. The highlights were seeing Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City, cycling around the Hutongs in old Beijing, the Great Wall of China at Mutianyu, the Terracotta Warriors in Xian, and ... Read more >
Wed, 30 Apr 2008 | By enanareina | Photo Gallery
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Tue, 29 Apr 2008 | By avant-garde_chauvintist | Views [662]
China officially (it has the Olympic rings on it and everything) hate France. I'm not quite sure why the hate is just restricted to the country that serves amazing wine and cheese. Today, the assignment in class went something like this: "... Read more >
Tue, 29 Apr 2008 | By bodiekern | Views [406]
Giant Fish A new restaurant servicing big wild fish recently opened in Guizhou province. -- China Daily , April 29, 2008
Tue, 29 Apr 2008 | By williamwong | Views [954]
The hotel has provided good service as I received the morning-call exactly at 6:00am. I'm excited and energetic as I get ready to complete the final part of the walk today. We started from the left part of Juyongguan Wall, steep and high. I can't ... Read more >
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Tue, 29 Apr 2008 | By bodiekern | Views [354]
It is apparent that, despite the bombardment of English words on Chinese TV and T-shirts, many Chinese know only the word "Hello." And they are not afraid to use it. At first I responded to "Hello!" with "Hello." Recently ... Read more >
Tue, 29 Apr 2008 | By bodiekern | Views [370]
It has now been a week since I have seen a white face, and as that was in Xi'an, a touristy place, it is safe to say it has been much longer than a week for most of the people here in Yinchuan. The ubiquitous English "Hellos" of Beijing are ... Read more >
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