All Posts For 2009 November

Stanford’s FACES Student Exchange Program Experiences

Stanford’s FACES Student Exchange Program Experiences

Forget Obama and Hu, can 40 American & Chinese exchange students contribute to and strengthen US-China ties? I think so and here are my three reasons why.

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Quote: Howard French on China-Obama Press

Quote: Howard French on China-Obama Press

“It may have made certain people in this society feel better about themselves, but if the goal is changing behaviors in China…” ... 

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America Interferes With China’s Internal Affairs, Yes, True, And…?

America Interferes With China’s Internal Affairs, Yes, True, And…?

Why authoritarian China is defying Western democratic expectations by not failing & imploding…and how foreigners indeed interfere with its internal affairs.

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Quote: Kelly Hammond on Pepsi for China

Quote: Kelly Hammond on Pepsi for China

“What does all this mean for scholars who work so hard to deflate this false conflation of westernization and modernization?” ... 

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2012 Movie: Praising China & The Chinese? No, Not Really

2012 Movie: Praising China & The Chinese? No, Not Really

Roland Emmerich’s 2009 apocalyptic movie “2012″ has been praised and criticized for pandering to China and Chinese audiences…and why that’s egotistically ridiculous.

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Rednecks, Red Guards & Trolls: Kaiser Kuo on US-China Online

Rednecks, Red Guards & Trolls: Kaiser Kuo on US-China Online

Kaiser Kuo speaks at TEDxHonolulu about the crisis in US-China relationships on a person-to-person level, exacerbated by large-scale and unmediated contact over the internet.

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CNBloggerCon: For The Chinese, Not The Foreigners

CNBloggerCon: For The Chinese, Not The Foreigners

The China Blogger Conference is largely inaccessible and irrelevant to most foreigners. Even so, what happens here, every year, is something we can all appreciate.

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Busing From Guangzhou To Lianzhou

Busing From Guangzhou To Lianzhou

A 3 hour bus ride from Guangzhou to Lianzhou involves smooth highways & narrow, uneven dangerous country roads. A truck rolls over & an old man grabs my crotch.

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Off To 2009’s 5th Annual CnBloggerCon We Go!

Off To 2009’s 5th Annual CnBloggerCon We Go!

The 5th annual China Blogger Conference is being held in Lianzhou this year, about 3 hours outside of Guangzhou. We’re sponsoring and attending so check back for our coverage.

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