Posted in China, Transportation, Travel on June 23, 2008 | No Comments »
A friend alerted me to this rail line which was just completed in 2006. The pictures are absolutely stunning and its construction is clearly a modern marvel.
There were and are many technical difficulties for such a railway. About half of the second section was built on barely permanent permafrost. In the summer, the uppermost layer [...]
Posted in China, Entertainment, Film, Humor, Indie Film, Music, Pop Culture, Random, Video on May 6, 2008 | No Comments »
A clip from one of my favorite movies of all time. How can you not be endeared to this odd women who expresses her affection for a man that she’s too afraid to talk to by secretly cleaning his house? The music should be familiar.
Posted in 70's, China, History, Humor, Politics, Random on April 21, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Thank you Marcella Proust for this.
I had to send you this quotation, which I got from the book I am teaching tomorrow, a book of poems by Yunte Huang called _Cribs_. It appears in a footnote to the poem. “Note–When Richard Nixon went to China in 1972, his Chinese hosts took him to see [...]
Posted in Bush, China, Politics, Religion on April 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
While I fear that I am setting myself up by posting a very unpopular sentiment, I couldn’t refrain. The Dalai Lama just completed a visit to Seattle and I have heard all over the news the oohs and ahhs of the local media about how wonderful the Dalai Lama is. I have to admit I [...]
Posted in China, Media, Olympics, Politics, Sports on April 10, 2008 | No Comments »
It has been suggested that
A call to boycott any aspect of the Olympics is part of the current of not wanting to deal or directly negotiate with other nations on the “bad counries” list.
This kind of posturing makes America look incredibly immature — as if it has lost touch with the realities of statecraft and [...]
Posted in China, Media, News, Olympics, Politics on March 22, 2008 | No Comments »
Apparently unnerved by recent unrest among Tibetans and fearful of protests in the heart of the capital, China has told broadcast officials it will bar live television shots from the vast square during the Games.
A ban on live broadcasts would disrupt the plans of NBC and other major international networks, who have paid hundreds of [...]
Posted in China, Olympics, Politics, Sports on March 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The White House said Thursday that China’s crackdown in Tibet is not cause for President Bush to cancel his attendance at the Beijing Olympics.Presidential spokeswoman Dana Perino Bush’s position is that “this should be about the athletes and not necessarily about politics.”
She said that Bush, in accepting the invitation last year from Chinese President Hu [...]
Posted in America, China, News, Space on February 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
First they blow up a satellite, then we blow up a satellite.
They’re going to put a man on the moon, so we are going to put a man on the moon — again.
Let’s hope this Communist outpost in space is science fiction. It’s written by the illustrious “staff writers” at www.space-travel.com.
Chinese taikonauts (astronauts) may [...]
Posted in America, Bush, Bush Administration, China, France, History, News, Politics, Space on February 14, 2008 | No Comments »
Ah yes, the U.S. is planning on blowing up a satellite.
The Pentagon is considering whether to shoot down a failed spy satellite that could come crashing back to Earth by March, senior U.S. military officials said Thursday.
But wasn’t it just one year ago that we condemned China for doing the same thing?
China’s action drew [...]
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