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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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U.S. National Symphony Orchestra in Xi'an The National Symphony Orchestra will tour China (XI'AN i.e.) and South Korea for two weeks in June, the orchestra announced. At the invitation of the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China, the orchestra's principal conductor, Iván Fischer, will lead the ensemble in five concerts in... Click here to read the full story!
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!
General Culture Tips The culture of Xi'an descends from one of the world's earliest civilizations. The Guanzhong Ren (关中人/關中人) culture is considered the cultural antecedent of Xi'anese; their features are satirized as the "Ten Strangenesses of Guanzhong Ren" (关中十大怪/關中十大怪).... Click here to read the full story!
Learn Standard Chinese We discovered a great free resource to learn standard chinese and dozens of other languages as well. And we want to share it with you: "Standard Chinese: A Modular Approach", provided by the Foreign Service Institute. This institute teaches foreign languages to U.S. diplomats, military-... Click here to read the full story!
Boom Market: Construction In the last couple of years the Xi'an region has actually grown at an average of 15% per year. The growth in Xi'an is therewith once again 50% to 100% higher than in the rest of Mainland China. You think that China's economic growth of 8% is impressive? Well, according to the governor of Shaanxi... 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!
Paranoia It is natural to develop random idiosyncrasies and quirks when you live in one place for too long. This is especially true after an extended tour of duty in China. Quick and obvious examples are jaywalking or “nudging” people out of your way in a crowded area. There is nothing wrong... Click here to read the full story!
Opera masks on zebra crossings In Furongyuan (that's in the south east, where the Tang Dynasty Park is located as well), pedestrian zebra crossing are painted (since July) with Qinling opera masks Guangzhong shadow puppets. 2 zebra crossings were "enhanced" so far that way and 7 more will follow as said by an... Click here to read the full story!
Independent of any fashion One of Spain's and Europe's greatest philosopher and writer - Balthasar Gracián († 6. Dezember 1658) - once wrote in his world famous work :"The Art of Wordly Wisdom", Aphorism CI: La mitad del mundo se está riendo de la otra mitad, y ambas son necias.... Click here to read the full story!
Rumore, rumore, rumore Ya se ha mencionado un poco en los comentarios del anterior post, pero bueno, no me parece mal dedicar el artículo de hoy a la principal consecuencia que en China ha tenido el accidente nuclear de Japón: la compra masiva de sal en muchas ciudades chinas. Ello se debe, por lo visto, a... Click here to read the full story!
Muzzy - Creativity through Vision Muzzy is a promising newcomer in Xi'ans music scene. He represents a new generation of chinese artists who believe that interaction between styles and walking new paths can change our understanding for life and music and create new ways. We met Muzzy in his favourite hang out in Gao Xin and asked... 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!
Tuscany Restaurant Tuscany Cellar & Restaurant is one of the finest Italian restaurants in Xi'an. “Tuscany Cellar & Restaurant” is located in Xi'an (Gaoxin District).Tuscany offers an exquisite selection of food and wine choices to meet the taste of any customer. Here you can relax in a... Click here to read the full story!
Europäische Strasse Dieses Jahr sind wir für die „Golden Week“ in China geblieben. Und wie viele andere sind auch wir verreist. Unser Ziel war Qingdao, die Stadt aus der das beliebte Tsingtao Bier kommt. Qingdao ist nicht nur für seine Bierbrauerei bekannt, sondern auch für sein europäisches Flair. Vom... 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!
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!
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!
Poorly Made in China Like a couple other of my favorite books on China, River Town and Mr. China specifically, I’m admitting to you now that the reason that I like this book so much is that this is my life in print. This is what I’ve done for the past 7 years in China—solved other people’s... Click here to read the full story!
Between two capitals: Xi'an and Beijing In its long history, China had many capitals. Xi'an served as the capital during the Han dynasty (late BCs -- early Ads) and then again for almost 400 years in medieval times serving four other one-syllable dynasties. Beijing was also a capital on and off, starting somewhere in the 12th century... Click here to read the full story!
Strategies & Experiences I had an interesting experience (interesting, as in: I learned a lot and didn’t get screwed) today with a factory that is working with us on a couple of projects. Basically the owners and the manager came to talk with me about the fact that we are “too strict” on our quality... Click here to read the full story!
Special: Jennifer Su Jennifer Su (born Jennifer Tsou; Pennsylvania, USA) is a television and radio presenter in Hong Kong, Bangkok, Thailand and Johannesburg, South Africa. She is an exceptional woman of many talents. You'll know her best for her TV Presenter role at Sky News where she anchors the "African... Click here to read the full story!
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