About Chinese CultureChinese CultureChina: Want to Score Like David Beckham- January 30, 2008 Certainly one of the more amusing intellectual property stories to come out of China in recent months: A DODGY Chinese company has plastered David Beckham's name on condoms, claiming users will...http://chineseculture.about.com/b/2008/01/30/china-want-to-score-like-david-beckham.htm China: Southern Snows Cause National Power and Transport Crisis- January 30, 2008 As you may have read in the news, southern China has been badly hit by a rash of unusual snow storms, the worst in at least thirty years. Local authorities were...http://chineseculture.about.com/b/2008/01/30/china-southern-snows-cause-national-power-and... Olympic Althetes Concerned About Beijing's Air Pollution- January 24, 2008 Should I run behind a bus and breathe in the exhaust Should I train on the highway during rush hour Is there any way to acclimate myself to pollution Randy Wilber,...http://chineseculture.about.com/b/2008/01/24/olympic-althetes-concerned-about-beijings-air... Henan Fossil 'Greatest Discovery Since Peking Man!'- January 24, 2008 "An almost complete human skull fossil that could date back 100,000 years has been unearthed in China with state media hailing it as the greatest discovery since Peking Man," Reuters...http://chineseculture.about.com/b/2008/01/24/greatest-discovery-since-peking-man.htm Chinese Internet Users Up 53%- January 18, 2008 China seems on the way to surpassing the US in all things--cars, carbon dioxide emissions, consumption--and now soon, the internet. According to the Wall Street Journal: China's total number of Internet users...http://chineseculture.about.com/b/2008/01/18/chinese-internet-users-up-53.htm UK Prime Minister Visits China- January 18, 2008 British Prime Minister Gordon Brown stressed climate change and economic cooperation during his visit to China this week. Virgin's Sir Richard Branson was among the 25 UK business leaders...http://chineseculture.about.com/b/2008/01/18/uk-prime-minister-visits-china.htm Malawi Drops Ties With Taiwan- January 14, 2008 Yet another African country has switched its allegiance from Taipei to Beijing. Chad did the same in August as did Senegal in October 2006. There are now only...http://chineseculture.about.com/b/2008/01/14/malawi-drops-ties-with-taiwan.htm Elementary School Girl Lambasted for Comments About "Yellow and Violent" Website- January 14, 2008 To: the Chinese internet public Explain me this. A Chinese elementary student, Zhang Shufan, told a CCTV reporter that the last time she went on the internet, she was unexpectedly...http://chineseculture.about.com/b/2008/01/14/elementary-school-girl-lambasted-for-comments... Protests in China- January 14, 2008 The Shanghaiist writes about a man in Hubei Province who was killed for using his cameraphone to record a protest against a municipal waste dump: Wei Wenhua, a manager at a...http://chineseculture.about.com/b/2008/01/14/protests-in-china.htm |