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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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British Citizen executed The british embassy in Beijing confirmed the execution of british citizen Akmal Shaikh. The 53-old british national was executed with a a lethal injection in Urumqi, the capital of the western chinese province Xinjiang. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown condemned this measure very clearly. He is... Click here to read the full story!
Upcoming bonded logistics park On June 23rd 2009, a ceremony was held at the Xi’an International Port Zone to mark the start of 20 key projects with a total investment of 7.13 billion RMB. One of the key projects is Xi’an Bonded Logistic Park. Bonded Logistics Center (B-type) has major functions as follows: bonded... Click here to read the full story!
Disaster Handshakes No. 1: The wet fish: Reticent, unsure and often damp. An apparent favourite of the Chinese official, it appears to couple particularly well with flushed cheeks and inane smirk. Eye contact is optional and far from encouraged, and all round execution, timing and apparent sincerity is found to be... Click here to read the full story!
Qinling Safari Park in Xi'an When I hear the word safari I think of people inside of a jeep somewhere in Africa. And of course those people are carrying binoculars in order to be able to see the animals which are some kilometre away. Because you can not come very close to the animals, can you? Well two weeks ago I went to... Click here to read the full story!
Top 75 books for learning Chinese Mandarin Chinese isn't a very complex language, in real life, if you have Chinese-speaking friends then you can practise with them or there are a numerous online Mandarin schools exist for helping improve your Chinese. But the most important is that you need to be practiced daily with your... Click here to read the full story!
Have you eaten yet? So, I was back in China last week, and thought I’d put in a goodwill visit to the old office - you know, to say Hi, how’s it going, oh, and if you have any spare jobs going in Xi'an etc etc… A few excited faces from behind the brain-numbing draw of Excel documents and the... 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!
Fantasy Club Xi'an Nightclub "Fantasy" in Xi'an from a manly, slightly drunken point of view. When entering Fantasy it seems like a regular nightclub. Of course the first thing to do is to get something to drink. That’s when you first start wondering that what this place is. Bartenders play with... Click here to read the full story!
Oops! It happened again. Wow, that was a big break since the last ND Note! That doesn`t mean that nothing happened on ND since the last one. On the absolute contrary as our loyal readership can see every day! The Chinese spring festival is over since quite a time now. Yup. It is loved and hated at the same time (ah...the... Click here to read the full story!
Textile City Art District Much like Beijing 798 and Shanghai 1933, Xi'an has an art district called Textile town. The district is not an actual town but derives its name from the many textile factories built there since the 1950s. Xi’an Textile City Arts District is situated at Textile City in east Xi’an, which... Click here to read the full story!
Der Berg Hua Shan Es heißt, manche Berge sind so hoch, dass sie bis zum Himmel reichen. Es heißt auch, diese Berge würden den Himmel stützen. Die Taoisten erklärten bestimmte Berge als heilig. Einer davon ist der Hua Shan. Dieser liegt ca. 120 Kilometer von Xi'an entfernt und ist als Tagesausflug sehr gut zu... Click here to read the full story!
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Nankino Dum mi ekloĝis en Nankino, miaj usonaj gefamilianoj ne tute komprenis, kial mi volus translokiĝi al ĉi tie. Plejparte por usonanoj estas la problemo je la medio kaj tuta ekonomia sistemo ĉi tie. Ilia nekomprenado estis eĉ pli grava ol nun, ĉar la tempo kiam mi translokiĝis estis antaŭ... Click here to read the full story!
Bell Tower Hotel Xi’an Bell Tower Hotel is a four-star hotel and one of the earliest joint-venture hotels in Xi’an, is located at the busy center of Xi’an, neighboring the Bell Tower & Drum Tower Square where the historical and modern features are syncretized and close to the famous... Click here to read the full story!
Charlie Charlie is a fellow China expat who currently lives in Chengdu. He's lived in China for more than 5 years and is an independent freelance DJ (Check out www.justcharlie.com and the website for his monthly party in Chengdu (called DISCO DEATH) www.discodeath.net) and Web Developer. He values life... Click here to read the full story!
Taoqi: Desobedientes En el salon de clase la profesora le dice a los alumnos: miren, mi handy nuevo tiene camara. Cuando se porten mal los voy a grabar. Y cuando sus papas vengan les voy a mostrar los videos. Para que vean lo cansones que son! Un niňo que normalmente no pone cuidado a lo que la profersora dice se para... Click here to read the full story!
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!
Outliers Outliers, is the latest thought provoking book from Malcolm Gladwell. I don’t typically review books that I read that are not specifically about business in Asia here. And this book has, as it’s thesis, nothing to do with China. But there are a couple of really... Click here to read the full story!
Travel Journal: 西安 (Xi'an) Coming in from the airport after a flight from Hangzhou, I couldn't help but notice how much emptier and arid the countryside appeared. The moisture sucked out of it, the scenery consisted mainly of dust, ramshackle mudbrick homes and distant power plants smothered in haze of their own... Click here to read the full story!
Xi'an Models: Ya Meng Ya Meng is a professional model and a newcomer who's quiet confidence, hard work, and modern beauty have carried her to solid heights of success. She has worked for local designers and clients and focuses for 2010 to set foot beyond Xi'an. The Xi'an-born model is known for her... Click here to read the full story!
Xi'an: A Market Report Since the 1999 launch of the national Great Western Development Strategy, Xi’an has grown rapidly as a major gateway to western China. With annual economic growth exceeding 13 percent, the city was spared the effects of the global financial crisis that affected China’s coastal areas.... Click here to read the full story!
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