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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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Qimonda Xi'an: There is hope The QIMONDA story goes on: The "Inspur Group", a parent company of "Inspur International Limited", announced on Wednesday, 12. August 2009, that it will pay 30 mio. RMB to buy the Xi'an R&D center of the Germany-based memory chipmaker QIMONDA AG, to expand its business in... Click here to read the full story!
Kidnapped for speaking out A reporter with the German TV station Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) was interviewing a young man in China about the newspaper censorship controversy, when, immediately after the interview, a team of plainclothes Chinese police picked up the man like a slab of meat and threw him into the back of... 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!
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!
Why I came to China? I am often asked by people to give them my reasons for coming to live and work in China. I never fail to hesitate and give them some lame answer to their question. I usually end up telling them them I'm not sure or that I believed China would be a really different place than my home, or that I... Click here to read the full story!
Green Spring Festival China’s Spring Festival, or Chinese New Year, is the most important festival for the Chinese population. It begins on the first day of the first Chinese lunar month (which usually falls between January and February of the Calendar of the Occident). Traditionally, the Spring Festival is marked... 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!
Xi'an International Women's Group Well, besides that google.com is blocked in CN (Update 25.6: Working once again :-)), there is no other negative news to announce today ;-), on the contrary: We are proud to feature the "Xi'an International Women's Group" in our next ND TV Report, right before the summer break where many... Click here to read the full story!
Nudel mit vielen Strichen Wer hat die Nudel erfunden? Ist es wahr, daß Marco Polo einst aus dem fernen China die Nudel nach Italien brachte und deshalb jetzt alle Italiener gerne Nudeln essen? Zugegeben, eine sehr teigige Angelegenheit. Zunächst zu Herrn Polo. Wenn man den neuesten Forschungen auf diesem Gebiet... Click here to read the full story!
Green Molly Green Molly: A category apart. Green Molly is one of Xian’s newest and best locations. The location is an exquisitely decorated combination of a restaurant at ground level and a pub downstairs. In the restaurant you can indulge in the tastes of home, whether that be in the US, Europe and... 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!
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!
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!
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!
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!
一个人的好天气 偶然于书店闲逛，看见落于书架一隅的这薄薄的一本纯小说，装帧甚是可爱，honeydew ，lightsalmon ，navajowhite ，yellow 四色排列有致的四层书封很是少见，再加上“2007年芥川奖受赏”的名头，于是毫不犹豫地买了下来。... 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!
Trip to Cui Hua Mountain Wake up call at 8.10 am on a Sunday is never a pleasant thing for me. But that day, what lay ahead for me to discover, though I had not much idea about the trip, geared me up and in no time our small adventure group was gathered. It's 9 am on a bright Sunday morning, when we, a group of 9 young... Click here to read the full story!
The Chinese This is a fantastic book. Honestly, I only have two minor issues with Jasper’s Becker’s book, The Chinese. First, it is ten years old and I really want an update. If you think that ten years could not be nearly long enough to date a book on populations within a country than you haven... 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: Miranda Ko Ko was born in Hong Kong to parents of Chinese descents. Her early years spent in the trendy yet conservative region imposed significant influence on her personal style, work ethics and morals. She attended Mills High School in Millbrae, CA and graduated with top honors in 2009. She is currently... Click here to read the full story!
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