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Xi'an Models: Guo Jia
Xi'an continues as a breeding ground for potential supermodels. The latest example is our new discovery and head-turner Guo Jia, who will be craning necks when she appears on local fashion magazines this year. We are proud of having her onboard.This university student has been thrust onto the fashion stage in the past couple of months and is really making an impact, becoming a new favorite ND Model! Since winning a model contest in Hangzhou last year, 1,78m Guo Jia will ...
China's Incredible Find
The terracotta army was discovered by accident in 1974 at Xian , in China, when local farmers digging a well broke into a pit containing 6000 li...
Tedious Taxi Trouble
Cab driver got the full whack of my jetlagged frustration as I arrived into the capital this morning. A female cab driver, I might add - alw...
Cross-cultural communication
Some time ago, I read an interesting linguistic article called Inscrutability Revisited by Linda Wai Ling Young ("Language and Social I...
It's Teatime!
I want to talk about three things, in my very first article for New Dynasty. Learning chinese, my perceptions of concepts of personal space ...
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Earthquake A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.7 (some sources say 6.9) strucked this morning, Thursday 18.02.09, in the border region of China, Russia and North Korea. This was reported by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and other Geological Research stations today. Its epicentre was... Click here to read the full story!
More museums for Xi'an Xi'an is currently launching a massive campaign to create and open more museums to establish Xi'an as China`s premier "Museum City". Shaanxi's provincial authorities published a list of museums and monuments that are free to the public. The Small Goose Pagoda for instance, is now open to... Click here to read the full story!
China - Between Past and Future China is a country endowed with a colorful history. Owning deeply engrained traditions that few of it's population stray from it is a country that is hard to decipher for the outsider. Often what is visible is only a fraction of what exists. China is a seemingly never ending tangle of... Click here to read the full story!
Pretty Bubbles in the Air My wife came to me at the end of Spring Festival this year and exclaimed, “I think we should buy another house.” We talked it over for a bit and I agreed to go shop around and see what was out there. I was against the idea, for reasons I will get into later, but went along anyway... Click here to read the full story!
Order Food: A little Guide I have been living in China for one year now. And like most foreigners, I always ended up in the same few restaurants and always ordered the same few dishes. Even in restaurants with an English menu or with pictures. I often didn't know what the dishes are, either because of translations like... Click here to read the full story!
Show-Off It happens right around the 2nd semester at Jiaotong. The foreigner gives up on trying to make Chinese friends, gives up tasting fish eyeballs and gives up on living in a 胡同. He’s had enough of this. Failure, yucky and cold - that’s what China has become for him. This isn’t... Click here to read the full story!
Ryan and Marcello On 3. September 2009 a nice and cosy event took place at OSCAR's Bar and ND was there for you. Marcello Gil and Ryan Peters 2 friendly expats and artists in Xi'an were showing a glimpse of their great musical skills. Marcello and Ryan are true insider tips of the expat music scene and one of the... Click here to read the full story!
Chinese Banquets As a foreigner living in China, I've had countless banquets thrown with me being the guest of honor. A banquet to welcome me, a banquet to see me off, and banquets in between with numerous leaders, members of the communist party and sometimes just interested people who want my friendship and a... Click here to read the full story!
ND and Xi'an: Yo! Well, this note is a real time less one and easy to recycle. Fast and painless. ND is now a few months alive for public viewers. We have got A LOT of feedback so far and an absolute incredible growth of visitors and page hits. Thank you to all readers, users, contributors, writers, partners,... Click here to read the full story!
Falsa Falsaĵo En ĉi tiu epoko ni kutimiĝis al falseco: Holivudo, komputilaj ludoj, televidaj reklamoj, inaj ŝminkado, ŝerco-novaĵoj, sojkazea viando, plastika ĉio....Sed nun, la ĉinoj regas pli kaj pli multe da la videbla mondo kaj ni malkovras strangegan aferon: falsan falsaĵon, mensogon pri mensogo,... Click here to read the full story!
GeMing: A Park & More... The GeMing Park in Xi'an has more to offer than big green trees and cultural performances: "Look there!" Klaus said excited. "Three people on that little motorbike!" We only laughed... that is nothing, we have seen four or five people on one! "Have you seen? They carry... Click here to read the full story!
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Xi'ans Air Quality Index (AQI) An air quality index (AQI) is a number used by government agencies to communicate to the public how polluted the air is currently or how polluted it is forecast to become. As the AQI increases, an increasingly large percentage of the population is likely to experience increasingly severe adverse... Click here to read the full story!
Shangri-La Xi'an The only deluxe hotel located in the Gaoxin hi-tech development zone, Shangri-La Hotel, Xian brings modern luxury and legendary Shangri-La hospitality to China's eternal city. Shangri-La Hotel, Xian has the very best of the city right on its doorstep, from leading multi-national businesses to the... Click here to read the full story!
Tele china en español Existe la posibilidad de ver la televisión nacional china (CCTV) por Internet , y además traducida al español, lo cual, no sé si coincidirán conmigo, es la pera. Creo que es interesante echarle un vistazo, aunque sea sólo por curiosidad, para ver... Click here to read the full story!
Neulich im Nudel Restaurant in Xi'an Eine Kollegin lud uns neulich zum neueröffneten Nudelrestaurants ihres Bruders ein. Ihr Bruder ist ein erfahrener Koch, der mehrere Jahre für 5 Sterne Hotels gearbeitet hat. Jetzt will er seinen Traum verwirklichen und seinen eigenen Restaurant führen. Er eröffnete vor kurzem ‚The Best... Click here to read the full story!
Hadi Abbas Hadi is a Colombian of arabian heritage. He works in the hotel business and is the F & B Manager of an international Hotel in Xi'an. He is very excited of working in China and to collect a lot of valuable experience for his life and career. Hadi lives in Xi'an since quite a time now -... Click here to read the full story!
吸烟者怕 一个初中的厕所里，很难找到一个不吸烟的，偶尔找到一个，发现经常被欺负 一个高中的教室里，都上课10分钟了，烟雾还没有散去 你不吸烟就好象 大家都听周杰伦，你听秦腔 迎来的是嘲笑一声：噫--- 就好象... Click here to read the full story!
3 Billion New Capitalists Better than Freidman’s “The World is Flat” because it has more research and less left-leaning political solutions. Clyde Prestowitz’s “3 Billion New Capitalists” is a more complex read and of more value since it looks at both the causes of America’s... Click here to read the full story!
My trip to Xi'an If Beijing is the political heart of China, then Xi'an is its historical center. An ancient philosopher once mused that all those seeking the truth should go to China. A contemporary philosopher added that no visit to China is complete without a journey to Xi'an. This reflects the important... Click here to read the full story!
Being a “Boss” in China Last week I had the opportunity to eat dinner with three bosses from four factories that we were doing a couple projects with this last month. One owns a large-box printing factory with 200+ employees. Another was the owner of a plastics stamping factory with about 150-200 people. ... Click here to read the full story!
Xi'an Models: Wu Shan Wu Shan is a natural and decent girl from Xi'an. For insiders well known, since she can be found on many fashion catalogues and advertisements in the city. She is a kind of model that radiates classical beauty and elegant charm. Outside of modelling, she studies media, information and fashion... Click here to read the full story!
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