An interesting fact about this factory is that the material comes from the United States, is made into furniture here in China, and then most of the products are shipped back to the United States to be sold in stores such as Macy’s. ...
June 5, 2008
China and Vietnam are coded in exactly the same way, even in the path-breaking work on authoritarian regimes. In this paper, we take a deeper look at political institutions in the two countries, demonstrating that profound differences ...
... although we’re on an island, and people drive on the other side of the cars, and there’s new foods all around us; the atmosphere isn’t as completely different as we were expecting and it doesn’t seem that we are in fact in China. ...
I guess it was surreal that we were actually at the Great Wall of China and I was climbing this historical marker. I loved the fact that we could walk around and just look at all the stops and whatnot. Surprisingly we ran into a Purdue ...
May 7, 2008
With a 10-year history of doing business in China, Sealed Air was now betting on the country to help propel its growth as a global company. The company identified China as one of the initial investments in the company's Global ...
... I decided to investigate a little bit, and it turns out that according to the CIA world factbook the literacy rate is in fact 90.9% as opposed to 66%, so there is certainly an attachment to written language in most parts of China.
The artist was born in Quanzhou City, Fujian Province, China. As the son of a historian and painter he studied at the Shanghai Drama Institute and began his career working in gunpowder as a means of exploring the idea of recorded ...
The fact that a Guggenheim museum is being planned in Vilnius is indicative of the conviction that cultural “de-provincialization” can only be achieved by taking part in global projects. Skaidra Trilupaityte describes how Frank Gehry’s… ...
April 17, 2008
Adding to the inconvenience was the fact that the class was right next to my regular classroom. I tried to slip into the classroom unnoticed, but of course, I was seen by a few students by the door. I got to the class, and started to ...
In fact, when presented with the facts, the average data center manager/owner is astounded by the energy drain of the typical power setup. For instance, the street power – power entering the datacenter from “the street” - is typically ...
I have never seen so many bicycles in my life as I have in this short time I’ve been in China. There are seemingly throngs of bicycles everywhere I go. Fun Fact: Zhejiang University has around 1700 foreign students on campus. ...
I'll have no problem with whoever does or does not boycott the summer games in China. The fact is, the games are very much intertwined in politics, major multinational corporations and greed.
March 30, 2008
At China’s recent Environmental NGO Sustainable Development Conference, almost 100 members of youth environmental groups took part, and they had their own dedicated forum. In fact, China’s youth have become an essential force in the ...
I'm also obsessed by the ties of US and China in such a globalized world, i mean, the economic ties. Even though, we put what's the truth aside, not talking about weather tibet should be free or not, the simple question is: Will US ...
March 23, 2008
I tried twice - was never clear how much of the phone number to dial, RE: Chinese equivalent of area codes, and whether the fact that I bought my sim card in Shanghai made a difference. No luck. Smooth flight, but my row - #13 - did not ...
In fact, China Mobile’s color ring-back tones and other services gave it revenues of 6.99 billion Yuan (US$872 million) last year, more than 2.5 times the amount generated the year before. It’s not surprising then that Chinese Internet ...
March 17, 2008
For example, we're told that soon the largest English-speaking country will be China, and then that there are more honor students in China than there are people in North America. Okay. I wonder if all those honor students in China are ...
March 10, 2008
... in fact, they are not the people behind hack4.com, let’s suppose they are). Especially with the lofty goals of “ensuring the free sharing of the spirit of freedom” and “safeguarding China on the basis of our voices,” they do seem to ...
In fact, Russia, China and France voiced their opposition to sanctions in the hope of continuing their excellent trading relations with Iran. We do hear, however, that some senior Bush administration officials and Republican lawmakers ...
March 3, 2008
This has had an impact on the quality and interest in translation, with the prestige associated with being a literary translator on the decline despite the fact that China was one of the first countries to publish translations of books ...
