8th August, 2008 |
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Karen Christensen
email:karen [at] berkshirepublishing.com
skype:karen_christensen
Here’s an informative interview about the recent events in Tibet and what’s really going on in terms of China’s international relationships, set in what first seemed an odd venue. The Fox News show is called “Happy Hour” and is set in a bar–yes, with shelves of bright whiskey and gin bottles glittering behind the speakers. […]
Posted: April 15th, 2008 under Beijing Olympic Games, Politics & international relations.
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Talk about mixed metaphor. Here’s the title of an article in yesterday’s Baltimore Sun, quoting Duncan Mackay extensively, and me briefly: “Torch as lightning rod, Olympic attention is magnet for protests.”
Posted: April 10th, 2008 under Beijing Olympic Games, Politics & international relations.
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Not sure where this YouTube China video comes from, except that a friend sent it and it seems to have been created by and viewed Spanish speakers, but it’s cool to watch! Definitely gets me in a frame of mine to work on China Gold, our forthcoming book about China and sports and everything connecting […]
Posted: February 11th, 2008 under Beijing Olympic Games.
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Adam Hodgkins of Exact Editions has a way with words, like so many of my British publishing friends–even those in science and technology, thankfully. (So much for the two cultures.) I asked if he could put an issue of Guanxi: The China Letter up using their magazine platform. He has done so, and made it […]
Posted: November 26th, 2007 under Beijing Olympic Games, Issue by issue.
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I hadn’t noticed, till just now, the auspiciousness of the dates for the Olympics next year. I’ve mentioned before, in conjunction with buying a SIM card in China, the importance of numbers. While I am unsophisticated about this, I do know that eight is considered good luck. How then could I have missed the fact […]
Posted: November 2nd, 2007 under Beijing Olympic Games.
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Now this is hilarious: women expecting Olympic-year babies with Olympic mascots painted on their bellies. I love their smiles, and the English headline with its double entendre: “Growing support.”
Posted: November 2nd, 2007 under Beijing Olympic Games.
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It’s now less than a year till the Olympics in Beijing, and we’ve just brought out a double issue of Guanxi: The China Letter that focuses on the business aspects of the Games. The Olympics organizers have a regular newsletter now that’s worth reading and we’ll be recommending blogs and other sources of information […]
Posted: September 5th, 2007 under Beijing Olympic Games, Politics & international relations.
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Destination Chungking, the 1943 memoir I wrote about in my last post, ends with a paean to the coolies of China, written during a time when the Communists, led by Mao, were beginning to challenge the leadership of Chiang Kai-shek (whom Han Suyin’s husband served under in Chungking). Han is sympathetic to the Communists, though […]
Posted: August 6th, 2007 under Beijing Olympic Games, Guanxi: viewpoints.
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