03.26.08
Posted in China at 9:19 am by william_lee_intern
In Gamasutra’s latest China Angle column, Frank Yu says that with the booming of China’s online population, the games industry is growing increasingly nervous about government crackdowns following the shuttering of online video sites, and looks at recent controversy over the Beijing Olympics website’s co-option of some casual games. China has got the largest Internet population in the world with 228 million users vs. the 217 million in the U.S. More users also mean more gamers as expectations rise on the continued growth of the China game industry. All this goodness comes with a bit of trepidation as other events unfold that could rain on the parade. The China game industry is cautiously observing how the government has been dealing with video sharing sites and is asking itself “when is it my turn?” The government has shut down 25 “illegal” video sites and served warnings to the #1 domestic site Tudou and 32 others in the latest crackdown.
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03.11.08
Posted in China at 2:55 pm by william_lee
Lust, Caution” star Tang Wei has been banned in the Chinese media. Even the new television commercial starring Tang for the skin care brand Pond’s was to cease broadcast immediately. All print ads and feature content using the actress also were to be pulled. The memo gave no reason for the ban.
“Lust, Caution” is 28-year-old Tang’s first major film, and both audiences and critics lauded her for holding her own, particularly given the intense nature of the sexual scenes with co-star Tony Leung Chiu-Wai.
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Posted in China at 12:43 pm by william_lee
As 2010 World Expo is near by shanghai is on a verge to become the first wireless city in china.
Shanghai’s Municipal Informatization Commission and China Telecom Shanghai revealed that wireless demonstration areas will be ready for use in 2008.
Shanghai is a logical starting point to begin China’s wireless ascension. The city is the backbone of the Chinese Net with international output capacity reaching 50 G, the country’s largest point of outflow for Chinese information.
The competition to create “wireless cities” has set off a new wave of rivalry between municipalities worldwide
Wireless broadband has gradually become an important part of a city’s infrastructure
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03.10.08
Posted in Sports, China at 11:19 am by william_lee
Athletes coming to this summer’s Olympics will eat in a cafeteria big enough to seat 5,000, will enjoy showers heated by a modern solar power system and can worship in a new prayer center designed to accommodate the world’s most popular religions.
Those are some of the marquee features of the Beijing Olympic Village, prospective home to 16,000 athletes and officials when they attend the Olympic Games in the Chinese capital in August.
During a preview Wednesday of the nearly completed village, organizers allowed hundreds of reporters to peek inside two minimally furnished but stylish apartments to show how six to eight athletes will share the three- and four-bedroom suites.
The Chinese people have galvanized behind this event to showcase the new China.Click here for more
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03.07.08
Posted in China at 1:30 pm by william_lee
According to world bank chief Justin Lin Yifu gave a statement on Friday that China’s economy will keep growing fast for up to 30 more years. China is growing because of its vast domestic market and foreign investment. China’s historic economic transformation began 30 years ago when the nation’s then-leader, Deng Xiaoping, began a capitalist reform programme under the firm control of the Communist Party. Since then, hundreds of millions of people have been lifted out of poverty and China’s economy has grown to become the fourth biggest in the world. China’s inflation hit an 11-year high in January with economic growth rising at double-digit pace for a fifth straight year in 2007.Click here for more.
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Posted in China at 12:06 pm by william_lee
A man who recycles usable coal smokes a cigarette as he rests at a cinder dump site on the outskirts of Changzhi, north China’s Shanxi province October 16, 2007. One in seven strokes among Chinese men is due to cigarette smoking, researchers in China and the United States said citing a large-scale study that identified the habit as a major risk factor . Click here for the original article.
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03.06.08
Posted in China at 10:52 am by william_lee
Chinese language studies to be offered by North Attleboro High School through a grant from the Chinese government. The Chinese will pay for salary for the program and for textbooks, and the school district need only provide a room with a desk for the teacher. China’s Ministry of Education predicted a couple of years ago that 100 million people around the world will be taking Chinese - Mandarin - lessons by 2010. Many people in this country already are, through Confucius Institutes purportedly established to promote the Chinese language and enhance that country’s relationships around the world, and through other means. A bill to spend $1.3 billion over five years on Chinese language programs in schools and on cultural exchanges to improve ties between the United States and China.
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03.05.08
Posted in China at 1:50 pm by william_lee
Tiffany Yip, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology at Fordham University, is Chinese American. She was born in the U.S. and was raised in many different places like California, Texas, Illinois and Hong Kong. In her school she was one of the very few Asians. Yip’s ethnic identity wasn’t always easy for her to understand. Yip’s childhood questions about race and ethnicity have led her to study ethnic identity in Chinese-American teenagers and young adults in the New York City area.
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02.29.08
Posted in China at 12:57 pm by william_lee
china is one the fastest growing nation there is no doubt it ,China’s potential capacity to upset the international applecart already exercises financial analysts and other crystal-ball gazers.china is on a verge to become the next superpower responds to the dangers of inflation.China raised interest rates six times last year.china may be experiencing economic jitters, but it is still “running giant surpluses” and, as a crop of new books confirms, is “on the brink of becoming the world’s leading trading nation.American Sinophobes are fond of saying that the strength of the Chinese economy is derived from that government’s exploitation of its people.The fact is the current crop of Chinese commissars is weak; power is no longer concentrated in Beijing.The Chinese financial system is duly being liberalized – banking is diversifying and stock markets are developing. Protections for private property rights are being strengthened as well.but there is still time to china to cope up with America as Indeed China is changing. It is “out of the red” in more ways than one. The U.S. is changing too: It’s in the red and getting redder.
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02.28.08
Posted in China at 1:07 pm by william_lee
Chinese folk dance is being celebrated both inside and outside of China’s territory. The traditional art form is winning legions of fans world especially in America. Chinese folk music is backed melodious music and clamorous drum beats, students of different cultural backgrounds and ethnicity enjoy practicing the movements of Miao ethnic dances. Chinese folk dance class is practiced and performed at the Tisch Art School of New York University. Students show great zeal to learn a different culture through dancing. “Phoenix”, a contemporary dance epic choreographed by Aly Rose in 2006, created something of a sensation in Chinese dance. Aly Rose’s Chinese name is Luo Hongmei. Graduating in 1996 with degrees in psychology and dance, Rose came to China. She settled in southwest China’s Guizhou Province, where she was captivated by Chinese ethnic dancing. In 1999 Rose pursued her interest, coming to study at the Beijing Dance Academy.
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