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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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11 Tigers Starve to Death in Zoo Eleven rare Siberian tigers have starved to death at a zoo in northeast China over the past three months, state-run media reported Friday. The 11 tigers kept at the Shenyang Forest Wild Animal Zoo, located in Liaoning Province's capital Shenyang, all died due to malnutrition, Shenyang Wild Animal... Click here to read the full story!
4 million RMB for a dog He belongs to the last pedigrees of its kind, and comes from the remote mountain valleys of the Himalayas and he costs as much as a single family house or a good car: The Tibetan Mastiff with the incredible creative name "Yangzi No. 2". Now, the noble animal was sold - for 400,000 euros... Click here to read the full story!
Fake Fakeness In this day and age we've grown accustomed to fakeness: Hollywood, computer games, television ads, makeup on females, joke news, soy meat, plastic everything....But now that the Chinese control more and more of visible world, we've uncovered something something bizarre: fake fakeness, lies... Click here to read the full story!
Xi’an Underground Notes Sometimes we like to think of the past in a deluded nostalgic way that just takes the good and conveniently leaves out the bad. My memories of my 7+ years in Xi’an are inevitably littered with omissions and thought of in the way an American sees a Norman Rockwell Christmas poster. But I do... 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!
Finding work in China I’ve had 4 people call me about working with SRI or information about new jobs elsewhere, two people talked with me about starting their own companies and a couple others talk with me about networking for other work options. I also met in the airport a new couple just moving over to SZ for... 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!
Recycling - Chinese Style I was having a major tidy-up of the apartment over the weekend. Given the smallness of the apartment and the rather large accumulation of junk over the years, I had made the decision that a whole bunch of stuff just “had to go”. Books already read, DVDs already watched, kitchen utensils... 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!
Una tienda sin rebajas Cerca de mi oficina han abierto una tienda de moda que se llama "Cara". En chino no significa nada, claro, pero el caso es que me ha hecho gracia el nombrecillo. No sé si en España triunfaría una tienda con tal nombre, aunque bueno, al turrón 1880 le funciona.... Click here to read the full story!
Grand Noble Dining Grand Nobel Hotel Xi’an is a brand new luxurious property in Xi'an offering comprehensive facilities and services for leisure and business stays. It is conveniently located in the commercial center, shopping- and entertainment area of Xian’s downtown, neighbouring a lot of popular... 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!
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!
Grand Noble Xi'an Grand Nobel Hotel Xi'an is a new luxurious property offering comprehensive facilities and services for leisure and business stays. It is conveniently located in the commercial center, shopping and entertainment area of Xian’s downtown, neighboring a lot of popular tourist attractions. Only 40... 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!
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!
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!
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!
Datong - 大同 I just got back from Datong, Shanxi. My school organized this trip, so this time I was traveling with all my classmates and two teachers. The trip wasn’t that fun, it was like joining a tour group, I had to follow the big group all the time, and our travel schedule was occupied with visiting... 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!
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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