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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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German industrialists attack Chinese Two of Germany’s most prominent industrialists have attacked the business and investment climate in China during a meeting with Wen Jiabao, the Chinese premier. The criticism from the businessmen, the chief executives of Siemens and BASF, came against a backdrop of rising discontent among... Click here to read the full story!
ASCOTT expanding in Xi'an ASCOTT, a world famous serviced apartments provider from Singapore has signed a contract to manage the Citadines Xi’an Xingqing Palace. This property is the third serviced residence in Xi’an. ASCOTT's two other serviced residences in Xi’an are Citadines Xi’an Central, which... 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!
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!
Chinese Massage One of the nice things of being in China is the leisure of a massage. I started going to the massage a couple of weeks after I arrived in Xi’an and meanwhile I try to go every week. I do not know much about the science behind the chinese massage but as my teacher told me, chinese massage... 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!
Hans Beer (汉斯啤酒) I thought what a wonderful idea for an article, then that of the Xi’an famous, Hans Gampi (Beer). What a wonderful world we live in here in Xi'an, with having such a good local beer as that of Hans. This beer is brewed in neighbouring town Baoji, and is a favourite drop of the expat... Click here to read the full story!
Chinese Cultural Intricacies So, to protect the names of the innocent or the innocence of the names, I will use English names when talking about people in China. Of course, if you happen to be one of the Expats working here at the college that have real life English names like Erin (real name) or Hope (real name), you’re... Click here to read the full story!
ND Movie Night Photo A short addition as promised from our ND Movie Night: on 27. September, when we organized our first event for the local and expat community in Xi'an. We showed great ND short movie productions and featured the great western artist and musician Neil Farrell and his Partner George, who sang a... Click here to read the full story!
Velonika, del Lenz ist da Es ist wieder so weit! Der Frühling ist da! Nicht nur die Sonne lässt sich wieder blicken, auch die bisher so dunklen und kahlen Bäume sind mit kleinen hübschen Blumen geschmückt. Besonders schön ist in diesen Tagen ein Besuch zum botanischen Garten, nicht weit von der großen Wildganspagode.... Click here to read the full story!
Sheraton Xi'an Sheraton Xian Hotel is revitalized with new standards of service and amenities. Our warm and friendly staff is fully committed to providing you with a comfortable and convenient stay. Our hotel’s central location is near the Xian City Wall and just 35 minutes from Xian Xianyang International... Click here to read the full story!
Kong Han Rui Kong Han Rui is a newcomer in Xi'ans music scene. She is a solo performer and plays mostly at the HUTONG Bar (Opposite to the Howard Johnson Ginwa Plaza Hotel) in Xi'an at the moment. Did you want to be a singer since childhood? When did you realize that singing was your mission? Since... 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!
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!
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Mandarín Mi profesora me mira y me dice, look at me Norma, ella escribe en el tablero 'c s z' y me dice, repeat after me. 'ccccccc' yo trato de imitar el sonido pero ella mueve la cabeza de izquierda a derecha y dice otra vez ccccccc. Luego viene la ese 'ssssss' y por ultimo la zeta 'zzzzz'. Fijate en la... 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!
ChimeLong - Guangzhou Zoos in China, usually a foreigner walks in and feels like an angry animal activist; because of the sad animals on display living in squalid shelters with little or nothing to play or look at. So the few hours spent walking around looking at the different enclosures, is time spent commenting on... 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!
Xi'an Models: Zhang Qian Zhang Qian is a young and friendly local girl who likes sports, going out with friends, music. She has been in the model business since a couple of years and one can feel her passion for it. Very talented, open minded and a girl with "her feets on the ground". We met Zhang Qian, at her... 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!
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